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Miranda Heaner (she/elle/sie)
@mirandaheaner.bsky.social
PhD Student, UCLA | Formerly NU and ULL | The 15th-Century Ghost That Haunts Royce Hall | Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies | EN/FR/DE | https://ucla.academia.edu/MirandaHeaner
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shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week
September 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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But thei were all of them deceivid for anothir environment-killinge plagiarism machyne was made
January 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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“Now night passes and New Year draws near,
drawing off darkness as our Deity decrees.
But wild-looking weather was about in the world:
clouds decanted their cold rain earthwards;
the nithering north needled man’s very nature…”

Sir Gawain & the Green Knight, late 14th-century, trans. Simon Armitage
December 31, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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A long time ago I wrote about Marc Bloch as an example of why medieval studies has ALWAYS been involved in politics #medievalsky

www.forbes.com/sites/matthe...
November 24, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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New open access book on the 'Middle Ages' as a field (auf deutsch):
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Die Mediävistik und ihr Mittelalter
Medieval Studies has done away with many things once considered self-evident. It is even contentious whether it makes sense to speak of the "Middle Ages" as their own epoch. It is against this backdro...
www.degruyter.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:43 AM
To grad students in the humanities (or otherwise, I'm not picky), might I suggest submitting an abstract to the UCLA Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies Graduate Student Conference? It'll be delightful, I promise: www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
November 18, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Figuring out what your first post should be is like writing in a blank journal for the first time.
November 18, 2024 at 2:55 AM