Derrick Pitard
@synderlic.bsky.social
Medievalist who writes on Chaucer and religion in later medieval Britain; teaches Latin, Old English, and the History of English; family historian; dad; husband; once and future rower; union member. https://gladlywoldehe.net/
Well, that’s what they want you to think.
November 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Well, that’s what they want you to think.
Oh, and: Vision, from the life of Hildegard von Bingen?
October 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Oh, and: Vision, from the life of Hildegard von Bingen?
Anchoress, dir. Chris Newby. The Virgin Spring by Bergman. The Name of the Rose would fit this. Andrei Rublev too.
October 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Anchoress, dir. Chris Newby. The Virgin Spring by Bergman. The Name of the Rose would fit this. Andrei Rublev too.
Carolyn Dinshaw, though more “literary” than“historical.” I love how she combines her scholarship with an intensely personal and contemporary vision of the importance of the scholarship. Her essay on “getting medieval“ in Tarantino is an example.
September 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Carolyn Dinshaw, though more “literary” than“historical.” I love how she combines her scholarship with an intensely personal and contemporary vision of the importance of the scholarship. Her essay on “getting medieval“ in Tarantino is an example.
