I’ve been in my semi-annual grade-induced silence around here for the past week or so. As each semester winds down, I’m inevitably hunkered down in my office, keeping the companies who manufacture red ink in the black (get it?). Anyway, I’m pleased to say that it’s just about over now. …
I’ve now seen the full cover of the book — front, back, and spine — and I’m rather pleased with how it turned out. Here’s the front in all its glory: The press had asked me a couple of months ago what I thought might go on the cover, and …
No one ever accuses academia of being speedy. I reported on June 22, 2008 that I had completed the edits for my edition of The Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament, a 700+ page behemoth of a book. Today, April 8, 2011, I got my first request for …
The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook, my book about one of the most important but often forgotten events in the history of the British Isles, is about a month away. If you live in England, that is. The book is being published through the University of Exeter Press, and it …
It’s fairly common to hear somebody blathering about the End of the World these days. And by “these days” I mean, well, whenever you happen to be reading this, because one of the few constants over the past couple thousand years has been folks’ certainty — absolute certainty — that …