Author: Jim Tigwell
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A Little Bird Told Me
A few readers have asked me where I find the news for our Newsreel posts, which to me is an opportunity to write a post about it. i follow a lot of news sites and blogs, which I link to with every article, but I also follow a lot of classicists and medievalists on Twitter, […]
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Alien Ruins
We haven’t found any, but that would be pretty cool. It’s a common trope in media though, that alien cultures leave their ruins abandoned. In Star Trek, Stargate, Star Wars, and even the Mass Effect series, characters explore ruins on planets where the native culture still lives, and even thrives. But the ruins are abandoned. […]
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Everything Old is New Again
Newsreel Our fascination with the ancient world leads us to try to reconstruct it, whether that’s archaeologists dressing a bison with stone tools, or making tv shows like Rome. We want to see what it was like, and get a glimpse of what it might have been like for the people who lived then. We […]
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Meet the Profs
Salvete/χαιρετε fellow students! Welcome to a new year of CMS events! Our first event, Meet-The-Prof night, is a tradition within CMS where the students and professors in the Classical Studies and Medieval Studies Departments come out to socialize and get to know one another better. It’s a great way to get to know your fellow […]
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Exploring the Poles
Newsreel It’s a slow news week, but it’s interesting to see what constitutes a slow news week in archaeology. This week sees artifacts unearthing themselves (less than medieval, but still awesome), and the grave of a mysterious warrior. Both of these finds are in Poland, which is rich with a history stretching back thousands of […]
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Three Kinds of Medievalism
I got a lot of reactions to the Tolkien article in last week’s Newsreel. Most of them wondered what Tolkien has to do with medieval studies. Middle earth isn’t exactly historical, and even the commentary and metaphor in it isn’t a commentary on medieval events, but on ones contemporary to the author. So why do […]
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Bathtime Hobbit Pyramid
Newsreel It’s not what you think. Unless you think I’ve started subscribing to the National Geographic school of post-naming, in which case you’re a little right. There’s a lot of neat things going on in classics and medieval studies this week. For scholarship, there’s a great article on the influence of J. R. R. Tolkien, […]
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Events
Resources I know you’ve got a busy term lined up, but I’m about to make it busier, I hope. You’ve got classes, readings, and assignments, but there’s a lot of other things going on at the university. I’m going to make you aware of them, and you should go. University is an educational experience, and […]
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Return of the King
Newsreel This week I’ve got a pretty interesting selection here. A medieval medical manuscript that’s an odd mix of science and folklore, research on the criminal profiling done by the vikings, and…There was something else. Oh yes, archaeologists may have actually found the bones of Richard III. This is a really big deal.
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Home Away From Home
Resources If you’re looking for a quiet place to study, or a place to get some help with your Latin, look no further. In the Modern Languages building, you’ll find two rooms devoted to this task. The Classics (and Medieval) lounge in ML 245B is a second home to a lot of students, providing a […]