Dr Evelyn Koch
@evelynkoch.bsky.social
Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
We'll never know for sure, but the term is used in several Old English herbals and leechbooks. We should bring back poetic names for vegetables.
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
We'll never know for sure, but the term is used in several Old English herbals and leechbooks. We should bring back poetic names for vegetables.
Exactly, bleak and beautiful.
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Exactly, bleak and beautiful.
It's such a great series.
November 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
It's such a great series.
One of my favourites is the kenning eorþnafola for asparagus - literally "earth-navel".
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 AM
One of my favourites is the kenning eorþnafola for asparagus - literally "earth-navel".
When I reupped this, I hadn't watched the new adaptation yet which features no Renaissance magic at all, alas.
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Reposting this for #Frankenstein.
This semester I taught Frankenstein which references Paracelsus, actually Pseudo-Paracelsus, and here's how to create a basilisk:
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
"Then the Basilisk grows and is born out of and from the great impurity/ of women/namely on the menstruum and on the blood of the sperm, 1/x
#earlymodern #16thC
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
When I reupped this, I hadn't watched the new adaptation yet which features no Renaissance magic at all, alas.
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Yes, the film (though it looks beautiful!) lacks all sense of abandonment, alienation und estrangement - there's just bromance. Mary Shelley's original is much more radical.
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Yes, the film (though it looks beautiful!) lacks all sense of abandonment, alienation und estrangement - there's just bromance. Mary Shelley's original is much more radical.
Cirith Ungol vibes...
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Cirith Ungol vibes...
Exactly, there are probably many more people who would use this library subscription.
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Exactly, there are probably many more people who would use this library subscription.
At the moment, there's no digital version available, unfortunately. (We've been looking into this for a while, but it's a long process.) Hither Shore is one of the more affordable journals; this might be an argument to persuade the uni library to subscribe. If you need some of the articles, DM me.
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
At the moment, there's no digital version available, unfortunately. (We've been looking into this for a while, but it's a long process.) Hither Shore is one of the more affordable journals; this might be an argument to persuade the uni library to subscribe. If you need some of the articles, DM me.