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#ManuscriptZoo: Erik Kwakkel’s menagerie
Last Friday paleographer Erik Kwakkel charmed thousands of book and animal lovers on Twitter with hourly pics of creatures in medieval manuscripts. Here’s his #ManuscriptZoo. [View the story “Erik Kwakkel’s #ManuscriptZoo” on Storify]
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TRB Podcast: Richard Firth Green’s “Elf Queens and Holy Friars”
Reviewed by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer: On April 26, 2012, The University of Toronto hosted Richard Firth Green as the keynote speaker of the 4th annual Canada Chaucer Seminar. Green gave a brilliant speech from a forthcoming book on the topic of “Elf Queens and Holy Friars,” arguing for a medieval belief in fairies across class boundaries.…