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THE NEW MIDDLE AGES BONNIE WHEELER, Series Editor The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender anal- yses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. PUBLISHED BY PALGRAVE: Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays Patronage, and Piety on Medieval European and Heian Japanese edited by Gavin R. G. Hambly Women Writers edited by Barbara Stevenson and The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Cynthia Ho Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics by Gregory B. Stone Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Presence and Presentation: Women in the Later Middle Ages Chinese Literati Tradition by Laurel Amtower edited by Sherry J. Mou Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Investiture Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century edited by Stewart Gordon France by Constant J. Mews Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature Understanding Scholastic Thought with edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Foucault Christine M. Rose by Philipp W. Rosemann Same Sex Love and Desire among Women in For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth the Middle Ages de Burgh edited by Francesca Canadé Sautman by Frances A. Underhill and Pamela Sheingorn Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages: edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Ocular Desires Jane Weisl by Suzannah Biernoff Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon Listen, Daughter: The Speculum Virginum England and the Formation of Religious Women in the by Mary Dockray-Miller Middle Ages edited by Constant J. Mews Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth- Century Woman Science, the Singular, and the Question of edited by Bonnie Wheeler Theology The Postcolonial Middle Ages by Richard A. Lee, Jr. edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages Chaucer’s Pardoner and Gender Theory: to the Renaissance Bodies of Discourse edited by Thelma S. Fenster and Clare by Robert S. Sturges A. Lees Malory’s Morte D’Arthur: Remaking Capetian Women Arthurian Tradition edited by Kathleen D. Nolan by Catherine Batt Joan of Arc and Spirituality The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval edited by Ann W. Astell and Bonnie Religious Literature Wheeler edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Warren Southern Low Countries edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Mary A. Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Suydam Ages: Image Worship and Idolatry in England 1350–1500 Charlemagne’s Mustache: And Other Cultural by Kathleen Kamerick Clusters of a Dark Age by Paul Edward Dutton Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight by Elizabeth Scala in Medieval Text and Image edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Creating Community with Food and Drink in Mills Merovingian Gaul by Bonnie Effros Queering Medieval Genres by Tison Pugh Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses: Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism Image and Empire by L. Michael Harrington by Anne McClanan The Middle Ages at Work Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: edited by Kellie Robertson and Michael Objects, Texts, Images Uebel edited by Désirée G. Koslin and Janet Snyder Chaucer’s Jobs by David R. Carlson Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Carmi Parsons Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity by John M. Ganim Isabel La Católica, Queen of Castile: Critical Queer Love in the Middle Ages Essays by Anna Klosowska edited by David A. Boruchoff Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Gender, and the Iberian Lyric Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century by Denise K. Filios by Richard E. Zeikowitz Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage, Medieval England and Politics in England 1225–1350 by David Gary Shaw by Linda E. Mitchell Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc edited by Kathryn Starkey and Horst by Maud Burnett McInerney Wenzel The Persistence of Medievalism: Narrative Medieval Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Jeremy Adventures in Contemporary Culture duQuesnay Adams, Volumes 1 and 2 by Angela Jane Weisl edited by Stephanie Hayes-Healy False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Performing Piety: Musical Culture in Medieval Middle English Literature English Nunneries by Elizabeth Allen by Anne Bagnell Yardley Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid in the Middle Ages to Chaucer by Michael Uebel by Robert R. Edwards Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Modern Cultures: New Essays Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk edited by Lawrence Besserman edited by Bonnie Wheeler Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, edited by Jane Chance and Alfred K. Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings Siewers edited by E. Jane Burns Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France?: Medieval England The Case for St. Florent of Saumur by Frank Grady by George Beech Byzantine Dress: Representations of Secular Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Dress in Eighth-to-Twelfth Century Painting Middle Ages by Jennifer L. Ball by Erin L. Jordan The Laborer’s Two Bodies: Labor and the Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval “Work” of the Text in Medieval Britain, Britain: On Difficult Middles 1350–1500 by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen by Kellie Robertson Medieval Go-betweens and Chaucer’s The Dogaressa of Venice, 1250–1500: Wife Pandarus and Icon by Gretchen Mieszkowski by Holly S. Hurlburt The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature Logic, Theology, and Poetry in Boethius, by Jeremy J. Citrome Abelard, and Alan of Lille: Words in the Absence of Things Temporal Circumstances: Form and History in by Eileen C. Sweeney the Canterbury Tales by Lee Patterson The Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious by Patricia Ranft Writing by Lara Farina On the Purification of Women: Churching in Northern France, 1100–1500 Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval by Paula M. Rieder Literature by Sachi Shimomura Writers of the Reign of Henry II: Twelve Essays On Farting: Language and Laughter in the edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon Middle Ages Meecham-Jones by Valerie Allen Lonesome Words: The Vocal Poetics of the Old Women and Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, English Lament and the African-American and the Limits of Epic Masculinity Blues Song edited by Sara S. Poor and Jana K. by M.G. McGeachy Schulman Race, Class, and Gender in “Medieval” The King and the Whore: King Roderick and Cinema La Cava edited by Lynn T. Ramey and Tison by Elizabeth Drayson Pugh Langland’s Early Modern Identities Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle by Sarah A. Kelen Ages by Noah D. Guynn Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages edited by Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th- Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey 15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language: Exchanges An Edition, Translation, and Discussion edited by María Bullón-Fernández by Sarah L. Higley The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Medieval Romance and the Construction of Process Heterosexuality by Albrecht Classen by Louise M. Sylvester Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Medieval Literature Rape in the Later Middle Ages by Cary Howie by Jeremy Goldberg Cannibalism in High Medieval English Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture Literature in the Fifteenth Century by Heather Blurton edited by Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Guild Culture English Literature by Christina M. Fitzgerald by Tison Pugh Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood Sex, Scandal, and Sermon in Fourteenth- by Holly A. Crocker Century Spain: Juan Ruiz’s Libro de Buen Amor The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women by Louise M. Haywood by Jane Chance The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and in the Late Middle Ages Literature edited by Catherine E. Léglu and by Scott Lightsey Stephen J. Milner American Chaucers Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, by Candace Barrington and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period edited by Don J. Wyatt Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early by Michelle M. Hamilton Modern Hispanic Literature by Emily C. Francomano Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval edited by Celia Chazelle and Felice Queenship: Maria de Luna Lifshitz by Nuria Silleras-Fernandez In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the The Post-Historical Middle Ages West, and the Relevance of the Past edited by Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia edited by Simon R. Doubleday and Federico David Coleman, foreword by Giles Tremlett Constructing Chaucer: Author and Autofiction in the Critical Tradition Chaucerian Aesthetics by Geoffrey W. Gust by Peggy A. Knapp Queens in Stone and Silver: The Creation of Memory, Images, and the English Corpus a Visual Imagery of Queenship in Capetian Christi Drama France by Theodore K. Lerud by Kathleen Nolan Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art Archipelago, Island, England edited by Cynthia Ho, Beth A. Mulvaney, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and John K. Downey Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Strange Beauty: Ecocritical Approaches to Early Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics Medieval Landscape by Susan Signe Morrison by Alfred K. Siewers Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) and Political Medieval Wales Women in the High Middle Ages edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon by Miriam Shadis Meecham-Jones Julian of Norwich’s Legacy: Medieval Mysticism and Post-Medieval Reception The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary: edited by Sarah Salih and Denise Enshrinement, Inscription, Performance N. Baker by Seeta Chaganti Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle by Mary Catherine Davidson Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade edited by Matthew Gabriele and Jace The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Stuckey A Translation of Their Complete Correspondence and Related Writings The Poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein: An translated and edited by Mary Martin English Translation of the Complete Works McLaughlin with Bonnie Wheeler (1376/77–1445) by Albrecht Classen Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe edited by Theresa Earenfight Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing: Reading the Book of Life Visual Power and Fame in René d’Anjou, edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince and Liz Herbert McAvoy by SunHee Kim Gertz Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Literature: Singular Fortunes Studies and New Media by J. Allan Mitchell by Brantley L. Bryant Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval Heloise and the Paraclete: A Twelfth-Century English Literature Quest (forthcoming) by Kathleen E. Kennedy by Mary Martin McLaughlin GEOFFREY CHAUCER HATH A BLOG MEDIEVAL STUDIES AND NEW MEDIA Brantley L. Bryant with contributions by Geoffrey “LeVostreGC” Chaucer, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, John Gower, Robert W. Hanning, and Bonnie Wheeler Palgrave macmillan GEOFFREY CHAUCER HATH A BLOG Copyright © Brantley L. Bryant, 2010. Softcoverreprintofthehardcover1stedtion2010 978-0-230-10506-5 All rights reserved. First published in 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-0-230-10507-2 ISBN 978-0-230-10902-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230109025 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog : medieval studies and new media / Brantley L. Bryant [editor]. p. cm.—(The new Middle Ages) Includes the key 2006–2009 postings from “Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog,” a humor blog written in the voice of Chaucer in an approximation of Middle English. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400—Criticism and interpretation—Blogs. 2. Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog (Online) 3. Civilization, Medieval— Study and teaching—Blogs. I. Bryant, Brantley L., 1977– II. Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog (Online) III. Series: New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) PR1924.G365 2010 8219.1—dc22 2010003249 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: May 2010 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Sakina and Mateo CONTENTS Acknowledgments xiii Part I Medievalism, Blogging, and Popular Culture 1 Why Ye Sholde Nat Rede This Booke 3 John Gower 2 Introduction: Go Litel Blog, Go Litel Thys Comedye! 7 Bonnie Wheeler 3 Playing Chaucer 15 Brantley L. Bryant 4 Blogging the Middle Ages 29 Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Part II Medieval Recreations 5 Chaucerians Do It with Pronounced E’s and Other Risible Relics of a Campaign in the Medieval Trenches 45 Robert W. Hanning 6 Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog 2006–2009 61 Geoffrey “LeVostreGC” Chaucer et al. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog 2006–2008 61 2 A New Order—Geoffrey Chaucer Hath an Extreme Blog: Go England! Yt Is Rad! 148 3 The Book of the Feere and Sentence of the Waye toward Las Vegas in Amerique 160 4 The Return 186 List of Contributors 193 Index of Blog Posts 195
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