I just realized that I haven’t written a new blog post since August, and here it is, pushing the beginning of November. I’m still here. I’m percolating some new posts: a love letter to the Spanish past imperfect indicative, which is the very best of all verb tenses; and a consideration of how we handle good scholarship carried out by terrible people. I’ve been doing a lot of reading and thinking over my sabbatical, and so if nothing else my end-of-year reading roundup will be epic. I’ve been doing some non-academic writing, too, which has taken me away from the blog: One piece fell through after the editor asked for a fourth round of major revisions, including the removal of a long section he had specifically asked me to write in an earlier round, at which point I said, “enough”; so I’m pitching it elsewhere and will hopefully be able to share it soon. Another piece that reflects on how we do medieval studies when there is a white supremacist narrative running parallel to us in popular culture saying that the Middle Ages was something other than what it is should be out in the next week or so.
For now, I’ll just leave you a picture of this tiny metal knight figurine that someone threw out and that was rescued and accessioned to the Department of Sanitation’s Treasure in the Trash Museum, which I visited for Open House New York weekend this year:
