Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog - 9780230105065

"There is a tendency to assume that anything that happened in history is not funny. Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog performs the vital service of showing that the Middle Ages can be fun, and, as a side effect, reminding us that people were as capable of laughing in the fourteenth century as we are today...maybe more so."---Terry Jones, Director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and author of Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary of a Medieval Mercenary

"Bryant as 'Le Vostre GC' makes the best case I know for the deep pleasures of scholarship.This is some serious fun."

Carolyn Dinshaw, author of Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern

"While disappointed to discover that I am not the Chaucer blogger, I nonetheless commend this edifying tome."---David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor, University of Pennsylvania

This must-have volume presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog," newly revised and updated, along with essays on the genesis of the blog itself, the role of internet blogs in medieval scholarship, and the unique pleasures of studying a time period full of plagues, schisms, and assizes. "Le Vostre GC" and medievalists Bonnie Wheeler, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, and Robert W. Hanning draw new conclusions about the ways medieval studies are perceived, the connection between the past and the present, and the historical roots of popular culture.