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 ...

The heroic medieval epic of Beowulf is to be turned into a 13-part ITV drama. The poem contains 3,182 lines written in Old English, and dates back to between the 8th and 11th century.

In the case of [J. R. R.] Tolkien, for example, who studied Beowulf for 40 years — he was working on a translation for a very long time and obviously he's brilliant — but he really received ...

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 ...

In New York City this week, Benjamin Bagby takes audiences back to Medieval times with his performance of Beowulf, which he sings in the original Old English as he plays the lyre, a six-stringed ...

Medieval Institute Publications Western Michigan University Kalamazoo MI 49008-5432 USA +1 (269) 387-8755. New Queer Medievalisms . ... Sadomasochistic Beowulf applies gender/queer theory to the study ...

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 ...

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 ...