Megan L. Cook
@meganlcook.bsky.social
Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
The magician wasn’t explicitly related to either the celebratory or political aspects of the evening, but she was awesome nevertheless
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The magician wasn’t explicitly related to either the celebratory or political aspects of the evening, but she was awesome nevertheless
Reposted by Megan L. Cook
So the emoticon is an expression of the Holy Trinity: a heart symbol made of the printed letter V (in German early modern printing meaning a "U") and a cap that looks either like the number "3" or a crossed-epsilon ampersand. In the text, the cap is the "trinum".
June 28, 2025 at 6:56 AM
So the emoticon is an expression of the Holy Trinity: a heart symbol made of the printed letter V (in German early modern printing meaning a "U") and a cap that looks either like the number "3" or a crossed-epsilon ampersand. In the text, the cap is the "trinum".
Plus, there's been so much interesting work on Middle English lyric and devotional writers like Rolle since they last time I taught it. Good stuff!
November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Plus, there's been so much interesting work on Middle English lyric and devotional writers like Rolle since they last time I taught it. Good stuff!
The last time I did an all-in Middle English course* was spring 2022! It's been a long time!
* I taught my Global Middle Ages course in fall 2022, but that's mostly work in translation
* I taught my Global Middle Ages course in fall 2022, but that's mostly work in translation
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The last time I did an all-in Middle English course* was spring 2022! It's been a long time!
* I taught my Global Middle Ages course in fall 2022, but that's mostly work in translation
* I taught my Global Middle Ages course in fall 2022, but that's mostly work in translation
Just such a total and complete nerd about teaching people to think about the book and its digital surrogates as a whole material-textual object that is made and remade through centuries of mostly-unacknowledged labor and also about fifteenth-century Middle English writing
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Just such a total and complete nerd about teaching people to think about the book and its digital surrogates as a whole material-textual object that is made and remade through centuries of mostly-unacknowledged labor and also about fifteenth-century Middle English writing
In related news, I am so psyched to be teaching this seminar, which is centered on BL Add 37049 aka the Yorkshire Miscellany aka the manuscript with all the smiling skeletons, once again.
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In related news, I am so psyched to be teaching this seminar, which is centered on BL Add 37049 aka the Yorkshire Miscellany aka the manuscript with all the smiling skeletons, once again.
Ah, so exciting!!
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ah, so exciting!!
It's not allowed. But it's extremely difficult to detect. In this case, one student was using Google Gemini to generate answers to the prompts, and then entering them manually as a post to a discussion board on her school's CMS
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It's not allowed. But it's extremely difficult to detect. In this case, one student was using Google Gemini to generate answers to the prompts, and then entering them manually as a post to a discussion board on her school's CMS
I mean, it's *not* scientific, so
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I mean, it's *not* scientific, so
They're pretty flexible-- this is a required first year writing course in which we're expected to cover research skills, so it is in part addressing that: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vs5f7...
www.dropbox.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
They're pretty flexible-- this is a required first year writing course in which we're expected to cover research skills, so it is in part addressing that: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vs5f7...