Mary and Irina open Medieval Beginnings, their new series of Close Readings podcasts, with Beowulf, a tale of monsters and heroes that is also a complex collection of interwoven stories about war and ...

The Epic Enigma of Beowulf: Riddling the Grendel Episode, A Performance . Posted by Kylie Owens for International Congress on Medieval Studies . Chris Vinsonhaler brings the gift of the bard to create ...

Meets: MWF 11:15 - 12:05. The popularity of George RR Martin's fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire and its Emmy-winning HBO adaptation Game of Thrones shows us that major themes from medieval stories ...

ENG 211 Beowulf (4 Credits) A reading of Anglo-Saxon England’s most powerful and significant poem, invoking the world of barbarian Europe after the fall of Rome. {F}{L} Fall, Spring, Variable. ... HST ...

Craig Davis teaches Old and Middle English, Old Norse and Medieval Celtic languages and literatures in the English department. ... In 1996, Davis published ‘Beowulf’ and the Demise of Germanic Legend ...

Watching Butler play the titular hero here is an inspired precursor to his work on 300.Of course, his Beowulf and Leonidas are nothing like one another, but a comparison can be drawn because of ...

There’s a reason why Medieval art is particularly, well, weird. While paintings and sculptures that remain from most other periods in history were generally produced by trained artists, the ...