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Michael L Smith
Location: Mt. Pocono, PA Joined: 24 Aug 2003
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 Posted: Mon 10 May, 2004 8:22 am Post subject: parody time |
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My wife just got back from the annual medieval conference at Kalamazoo and among the more entertaining sessions she went to during the four days was a parody of conferences papers given at these things. Her favorite was an exegesis on that old Anglo-Saxon poem, "Beowabbit: New Light on an Ancient Tradition".
Among the topics under consideration for next year's parodies:
1. You Can See the Stars, but Still Not See the Light: The Eagles, St. Augustine, and Book I of De doctrina Christiana in Its Classical Rock Context.
2. Wash, Spin, Dry: Three New Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Cycles.
3. One Tolkien Over the Line, Sweet Jesus: Suffer the Serious Medievalist to Listen to Yet More Inane Papers about Medieval Stuff and the [/i]The Lord of the Rings. (My wife's favorite since she teaches a course on Tolkien and medieval literature.)
4. The Saracens Made Us Do It: How Medieval Weapons of Mass Destruction Necessitated the Crusades Post-1066.
(My favorite.)
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Markus Haider
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| Posted: Mon 10 May, 2004 12:31 pm Post subject: Re: parody time |
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| Michael Smith wrote: |
4. The Saracens Made Us Do It: How Medieval Weapons of Mass Destruction Necessitated the Crusades Post-1066.
(My favorite.)
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Well, I heard they had a handgranade at Antiochia...
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Michael L Smith
Location: Mt. Pocono, PA Joined: 24 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Mon 10 May, 2004 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe a bow that could shoot five arrows at one time.
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David Quivey
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ahhh.. I hope she went to the lecture on "Beowulf waltzs to Edoras: How we can fit Tolkien into our Medieval Studies 1 curriculum" 
Now was it the Saracens that trained the killer bunny or the Byzantines...?
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Michael L Smith
Location: Mt. Pocono, PA Joined: 24 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Mon 10 May, 2004 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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David,
Actually she did. (Beowulf comes, not waltzes. I kind of like waltzes better.) She heard three papers on how to apply Tolkien to get students interested in medieval literature. One of her closest friends at the conference delivered a paper on using Tolkien to teach languages.
Leigh wants to know how you knew about this session.
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David Quivey
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Oh, I'm a Tolkien nut myself, and a medieval nut to boot (of course, which is why I'm here) so I've been to the International Medieval Congress site and have browsed the topics  Sounds like it was great - wish I could go
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Michael L Smith
Location: Mt. Pocono, PA Joined: 24 Aug 2003
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David,
There's always next year. My wife's already working on her abstract for next year's conference. Perhaps she'll see tyou there.
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This is a standard topic