Robert Rouse
@rousemedieval.bsky.social
Medievalist, medieval romance, medievalisms, left coast professor@UBC, @Oecologies OG, environmental and spatial approaches, game development consulting (AoE4), dad, nostalgic Man Utd fan. Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 (never the 51st State; fuck that noise).
Ah, Sir Isumbras in a nutshell.
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Ah, Sir Isumbras in a nutshell.
Yup. It’s from a certain playbook 101, and the implications are intended. Rivers of blood redux.
November 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Yup. It’s from a certain playbook 101, and the implications are intended. Rivers of blood redux.
Ha, did they have your permission to record? That’s a current issue of strong debate here at UBC.
October 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Ha, did they have your permission to record? That’s a current issue of strong debate here at UBC.
Nice to see Ad looming in the back there, in an appropriately coloured jumper.
October 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Nice to see Ad looming in the back there, in an appropriately coloured jumper.
And with some wonderful medieval narrative allusions.
September 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
And with some wonderful medieval narrative allusions.
Y was the way early printers - lacking a symbol for þ - set the word in early printed texts in England.
July 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Y was the way early printers - lacking a symbol for þ - set the word in early printed texts in England.
Ah, CBC Vancouver; have done a couple of interviews there over the years, on Radio and The National.
July 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Ah, CBC Vancouver; have done a couple of interviews there over the years, on Radio and The National.
Pfft. You could drink as much water from the fountain (or hose) as you wished.
July 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Pfft. You could drink as much water from the fountain (or hose) as you wished.
Black plague still rating higher than Trump’s tariffs…
June 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Black plague still rating higher than Trump’s tariffs…
Leaving aside religious garments (are they uniforms?), guild livery?
June 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Leaving aside religious garments (are they uniforms?), guild livery?
Shocking news. Simon was very kind to me in my first post at Durham in 03.
June 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Shocking news. Simon was very kind to me in my first post at Durham in 03.
We are certainly not the same…
June 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We are certainly not the same…
I thought they’d at least practice marching in time…. Ffs.
June 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I thought they’d at least practice marching in time…. Ffs.
Isn’t that one a WW2 reenactment tank?
June 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Isn’t that one a WW2 reenactment tank?
The 15 year narrative makes me feel so much less unhappy about my own 15 year gap… and my own 15 year book nearly done. We are such slaves to the productivity myth.
June 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The 15 year narrative makes me feel so much less unhappy about my own 15 year gap… and my own 15 year book nearly done. We are such slaves to the productivity myth.
Maybe, but anecdotally I know a couple of US doctors who have come north to BC recently, and getting away from privatized health was a big ethical draw for them.
June 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Maybe, but anecdotally I know a couple of US doctors who have come north to BC recently, and getting away from privatized health was a big ethical draw for them.
Given his past business MO, I’d be surprised if any of them end up actually being paid at all…
June 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Given his past business MO, I’d be surprised if any of them end up actually being paid at all…
That’s basically a declaration of war on the union movement, no?
June 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
That’s basically a declaration of war on the union movement, no?