Happy New Year! Wishing you all peace and joy in 2020. I have no appetite for year end “best of” lists, but I appreciate a December tradition at the literary website The Millions (themillions.com), “A Year in Reading”. Writers share short lists of books… Continue Reading “A Year in Reading, 2019”
Category: featured, Medieval Culture, Medieval Music, The Writing LifeTags: Agatha Christie, Anne Bagnall Yardley, Chaucer: a European Life, Constance Hoffman Berman, featured, Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!, Grendel's Mother, Katherine Arden, Laura Amy Schlitz, Maria Dahvana Headley, Marion Turner, Naomi Novik, Performing Piety, reading, Spinning Silver, Susan Signe Morrison, The Mere Wife, The White Nuns, Winternight Trilogy
Posted on March 6, 2016
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Last night, sublime music, women’s voices soaring in a Medieval Women’s Choir concert at Trinity Church. I was transfixed, transported by the voices. During the instrumentals I closed my eyes and watched all my beloved characters dancing to the vielle and harp. Members of… Continue Reading “March is Women’s History Month!”
Category: UncategorizedTags: A Medieval Woman's Companion, A Poisoned Past, Defending the City of God, Elena Woodacre, Inventing Eleanor, Julie A Chappell, Medieval Women's Choir, Michael Evans, Perilous Passages, Queenship in the Mediterranean, Sharan Newman, Steven Bednarski, Susan Signe Morrison, Tanya Stabler Miller, The Beguines of Medieval Paris, Women's History Month
Posted on February 14, 2016
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It is my great pleasure to welcome Susan Signe Morrison to A Writers Retreat. Her new book, A Medieval Woman’s Companion: Women’s Lives in the European Middle Ages, just out from Oxbow Books, is a snappy, engaging exploration of remarkable individuals as well as… Continue Reading “"A Medieval Woman’s Companion" as Inspiration for Novelists”
Category: Medieval Culture, Writing Women's LivesTags: A Medieval Woman's Companion, Aethelthryth, Alice Perrers, Anna Komnene, Christina of Markyate, Christine de Pizan, Donna Jo Napoli, Edith, Emma of Normandy, Felicie de Almania, Freydis, Grendel’s Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd Wife, Hild, Hildegard von Bingen, Hrotsvit von Gandersheim, Joan of Kent, Katla, Marasaki Shikibu, Margaret of Beverley, Margery Kempe, Marguerite de Porete, Marie de France, medieval women, Melkorka, Na Prous Boneta, Nicola Griffith, Patricia Bracewell, Rebecca Barnhouse, Robert Glück, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Margaret of Scotland, Susan Signe Morrison, Thorgunna, Trota of Salerno
Posted on February 14, 2016
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It is my great pleasure to welcome Susan Signe Morrison to A Writers Retreat. Her new book, A Medieval Woman’s Companion: Women’s Lives in the European Middle Ages, just out from Oxbow Books, is a snappy, engaging exploration of remarkable individuals as well as… Continue Reading ““A Medieval Woman’s Companion” as Inspiration for Novelists”
Category: Medieval Culture, Writing Women's LivesTags: A Medieval Woman's Companion, Aethelthryth, Alice Perrers, Anna Komnene, Christina of Markyate, Christine de Pizan, Donna Jo Napoli, Edith, Emma of Normandy, Felicie de Almania, Freydis, Grendel’s Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd Wife, Hild, Hildegard von Bingen, Hrotsvit von Gandersheim, Joan of Kent, Katla, Marasaki Shikibu, Margaret of Beverley, Margery Kempe, Marguerite de Porete, Marie de France, medieval women, Melkorka, Na Prous Boneta, Nicola Griffith, Patricia Bracewell, Rebecca Barnhouse, Robert Glück, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Margaret of Scotland, Susan Signe Morrison, Thorgunna, Trota of Salerno
Posted on October 4, 2015
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And now, without further ado, talking shop with Susan Signe Morrison, whose novel Grendel’s Mother: the Saga of the Wyrd-Wife is just out from Top Hat Books! Q: In Grendel’s Mother you use a spare style, no psychological explorations, no in depth descriptions of… Continue Reading “Shop Talk with Susan Signe Morrison about Grendel's Mother (2 of 2)”
Category: Guest Post, Shop Talk, Writing Women's LivesTags: Anglo-Saxon poetry, Bald's Leechbook, Beowulf, Brimhild, Grendel, Grendel's Mother, Heorot, JRR Tolkien, Norse mythology, Old English, Susan Signe Morrison
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