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Geekery! Legos and Old and Middle English
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loriel_eris posted a link to a Stargate Lego set-up.
That reminds me of one of the greatest Lego creations I have ever seen: Amy Hughes's Abston Church of Christ. It's amazing. Go through the galleries. Thanks to my brother, who put me on to this years ago; I have been sharing it ever since.
I am also grateful to that same brother for pointing me to Beowulf vs. Grendel. Click on each thumbnail to see a larger one. His favorite bit and mine is in the upper right-hand corner of the first photo; I think you'll know which one.
With that clever segue from Legos to Anglo-Saxon Studies, I have to share the best deal out there in Old and Middle English: The Early English Text Society. As I filled out my renewal, I thought once again, "What a deal! For $40 US (or £20) UK, I get the two newest volumes!" I know some of you share at least a little of my enthusiasm for Old and Middle English, so I figured I'd let you in on the secret. EETS puts out the standard editions in Old and Middle English (with very few exceptions). These wonderful hardcover volumes are edited to the best standards of their times (so yes, some of the nineteenth-century ones are outdated, but hey, we're still using Sweet's King Alfred's Pastoral Care; the late twentieth- and now twenty-first-century editions are outstanding). They're not student editions, but most of the OE ones have glossaries, and most also have extensive notes.
This year my grand total of $40 will get me two lovely thick hardcovers:
The Old English Heptateuch and Ælfric's Libellus de ueteri testamento et nouo vol. 1, ed. Richard Marsden
and
Speculum vitae vol. 1, ed. Ralph Hanna; despite the Latin title, it's Middle English verse.
If you don't want the books of the year, you can make substitutions, which may or may not cost extra according to a formula I can't figure out. I've made substitutions (for which I haven't been charged extra) and bought extra books with the member discount, and they're hugely cheaper than at Amazon, often even cheaper than used copies of the same things. My favorite substitution is the works of the Pearl-poet (Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and the ever-popular Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) in a black-and-white facsimile so you can see the illustrations Did you even know there were ilustrations? Some anthologies and translations of SGGK don't tell you!
EETS have loads of Arthurian romances and even early Scots English works.
The Middle English Compendium, including the authoritative Middle English Dictionary, is now free online, so you can puzzle through Sir Gawain and the Green Knight or The Cloud of Unknowing to your heart's content.
If you really want student editions for ME and don't have a lot of cash, the TEAMS editions are online free here (please abide by the copyright restrictions and don't ruin it for everyone else). The textbooks themselves are really cheap; go to the Medieval Institute Publications bookstore. I own lots of these. They're great. They have a good number of the lesser-known Arthurian Romances in paperbacks with helpful introductions, marginal glosses, endnotes, and usually small glossaries.
Okay, I think I've geeked out for the moment (don't worry, I'll have recharged soon). No, I don't get commissions for recommending these publications; I was just so thrilled once again to be buying two great editions from EETS that I thought I'd share the news, and then I thought I ought to point out TEAMS and the MED (free!; I can't get over the fact that it's now free!). I wish I'd joined EETS when I was still a broke grad student; I'd have amassed a good 24-28 more volumes by now!
loriel_eris posted a link to a Stargate Lego set-up.That reminds me of one of the greatest Lego creations I have ever seen: Amy Hughes's Abston Church of Christ. It's amazing. Go through the galleries. Thanks to my brother, who put me on to this years ago; I have been sharing it ever since.
I am also grateful to that same brother for pointing me to Beowulf vs. Grendel. Click on each thumbnail to see a larger one. His favorite bit and mine is in the upper right-hand corner of the first photo; I think you'll know which one.
With that clever segue from Legos to Anglo-Saxon Studies, I have to share the best deal out there in Old and Middle English: The Early English Text Society. As I filled out my renewal, I thought once again, "What a deal! For $40 US (or £20) UK, I get the two newest volumes!" I know some of you share at least a little of my enthusiasm for Old and Middle English, so I figured I'd let you in on the secret. EETS puts out the standard editions in Old and Middle English (with very few exceptions). These wonderful hardcover volumes are edited to the best standards of their times (so yes, some of the nineteenth-century ones are outdated, but hey, we're still using Sweet's King Alfred's Pastoral Care; the late twentieth- and now twenty-first-century editions are outstanding). They're not student editions, but most of the OE ones have glossaries, and most also have extensive notes.
This year my grand total of $40 will get me two lovely thick hardcovers:
The Old English Heptateuch and Ælfric's Libellus de ueteri testamento et nouo vol. 1, ed. Richard Marsden
and
Speculum vitae vol. 1, ed. Ralph Hanna; despite the Latin title, it's Middle English verse.
If you don't want the books of the year, you can make substitutions, which may or may not cost extra according to a formula I can't figure out. I've made substitutions (for which I haven't been charged extra) and bought extra books with the member discount, and they're hugely cheaper than at Amazon, often even cheaper than used copies of the same things. My favorite substitution is the works of the Pearl-poet (Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and the ever-popular Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) in a black-and-white facsimile so you can see the illustrations Did you even know there were ilustrations? Some anthologies and translations of SGGK don't tell you!
EETS have loads of Arthurian romances and even early Scots English works.
The Middle English Compendium, including the authoritative Middle English Dictionary, is now free online, so you can puzzle through Sir Gawain and the Green Knight or The Cloud of Unknowing to your heart's content.
If you really want student editions for ME and don't have a lot of cash, the TEAMS editions are online free here (please abide by the copyright restrictions and don't ruin it for everyone else). The textbooks themselves are really cheap; go to the Medieval Institute Publications bookstore. I own lots of these. They're great. They have a good number of the lesser-known Arthurian Romances in paperbacks with helpful introductions, marginal glosses, endnotes, and usually small glossaries.
Okay, I think I've geeked out for the moment (don't worry, I'll have recharged soon). No, I don't get commissions for recommending these publications; I was just so thrilled once again to be buying two great editions from EETS that I thought I'd share the news, and then I thought I ought to point out TEAMS and the MED (free!; I can't get over the fact that it's now free!). I wish I'd joined EETS when I was still a broke grad student; I'd have amassed a good 24-28 more volumes by now!