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What does +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ mean?

The British Library is looking for help trying to solve an inscription on a medieval sword... <br/><br/><div class="storify"><iframe src="//storify.com/medievalists/what-does-ndxoxchwdrghdxorvi-mean/embed?header=false&border=false" width="100%" height="750" frameborder="no" allowtransparency="true"></iframe><script src="//storify.com/medievalists/what-does-ndxoxchwdrghdxorvi-mean.js?header=false&border=false"></script><noscript>[<a href="//storify.com/medievalists/what-does-ndxoxchwdrghdxorvi-mean" target="_blank">View the story "What does +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ mean?" on Storify</a>]</noscript></div><br/><br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhArbWQBX-IQjaCk7LY3hMmCUVaQuA-cBCuISFWLk7FhX1zWpPoeWTvrhu7QXiU3RiolXO9JKhw0SYFtxc7TCUJYr-aBNXPItwsyQ8MK8xBT1hc37lj-_fyRvtPMu9lmKV8lTuHd4MX1iA/s1600/NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhArbWQBX-IQjaCk7LY3hMmCUVaQuA-cBCuISFWLk7FhX1zWpPoeWTvrhu7QXiU3RiolXO9JKhw0SYFtxc7TCUJYr-aBNXPItwsyQ8MK8xBT1hc37lj-_fyRvtPMu9lmKV8lTuHd4MX1iA/s1600/NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI.png" /></a></div>

What does +NDXOXCHWDRGHDXORVI+ mean?

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Damsels, Tree Bark and York/Jorvik: Medieval News Roundup

<i><b>This week's roundup finds some stories on how York is promoting its connection to its Viking past, wonderful images of writing on tree bark from medieval Novgorod and the troubles of being a historian in Cambodia.</b></i><br/><br/><div class="storify"><iframe src="//storify.com/medievalists/medieval-news-roundup/embed?header=false&border=false" width="100%" height=750 frameborder=no allowtransparency=true></iframe><script src="//storify.com/medievalists/medieval-news-roundup.js?header=false&border=false"></script><noscript>[<a href="//storify.com/medievalists/medieval-news-roundup" target="_blank">View the story "Damsels, Tree Bark and York/Jorvik: Medieval News Roundup" on Storify</a>]</noscript></div><br/><br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQA7L6UXNxhyIe-DR0lI5ZZnmLxWpWB4h8cmctaZxp9-50EQ1o1RPsbXbtuwCUPxRmetaNi7kRSwLbp4ElPHajEeSyuK87m0Jj_WLs6SKVrfFs4xbxwfHVu_dzW-mYbCgPEO4NTx78Ms/s1600/bb109.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgQA7L6UXNxhyIe-DR0lI5ZZnmLxWpWB4h8cmctaZxp9-50EQ1o1RPsbXbtuwCUPxRmetaNi7kRSwLbp4ElPHajEeSyuK87m0Jj_WLs6SKVrfFs4xbxwfHVu_dzW-mYbCgPEO4NTx78Ms/s400/bb109.jpg" /></a></div>

Damsels, Tree Bark and York/Jorvik: Medieval News Roundup

This week's roundup finds some stories on how York is promoting its connection to its Viking past, wonderful images of writing on tree b...

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Pirates, Doodles and Sinking Castles - Medieval News Roundup

This week's collection of news and tweets for medievalists. <br/><br/><div class="storify"><iframe src="//storify.com/medievalists/pirates-doodles-and-costumes-medieval-news-roundup/embed?header=false&border=false" width="100%" height=750 frameborder=no allowtransparency=true></iframe><script src="//storify.com/medievalists/pirates-doodles-and-costumes-medieval-news-roundup.js?header=false&border=false"></script><noscript>[<a href="//storify.com/medievalists/pirates-doodles-and-costumes-medieval-news-roundup" target="_blank">View the story "Pirates, Doodles and Sinking Castles - Medieval News Roundup" on Storify</a>]</noscript></div><br/><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI19ERoeOVLNiAaDOlsgpwEqBkCakBbc80NWcoPioUCgPqk5nJpsgxpu7tFsjr4CfJI14_dNqWUyG9UIA_A_kN9kevNFw3Hv3e2eXdJXcy9roeFrqKS0z2EpZCQnzEYItOZdEH3Jck4eI/s1600/sinking+castle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI19ERoeOVLNiAaDOlsgpwEqBkCakBbc80NWcoPioUCgPqk5nJpsgxpu7tFsjr4CfJI14_dNqWUyG9UIA_A_kN9kevNFw3Hv3e2eXdJXcy9roeFrqKS0z2EpZCQnzEYItOZdEH3Jck4eI/s400/sinking+castle.jpg" /></a></div>

Pirates, Doodles and Sinking Castles - Medieval News Roundup

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What does a medieval literature scholar see in 'Game of Thrones?'

What does a medieval literature scholar see in 'Game of Thrones?'

From PBS Newshour: Brantley Bryant, associate professor of medieval literature at Sonoma State University, shares what he sees of The Cante...

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The 101 Nights - new book of Arabic tales discovered

A historian in Germany has come across a new collection of medieval Arabic stories - a kind of precursor to the famous book known as One Thousand and One Nights. Claudia Ott, a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, discovered <i>The Book with the Story of the 101 Nights</i> in a 13th century Andalusia manuscript.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWXBb00IInDYXRd62Akj8pr7MLiWPJjALL85UK8drOAN3_VSrUmYYlshyphenhyphenWtIbmJ-BN5nXphPt13S_O7bQYerp3_NLC8b6hlRmL64FrAMy4qGMMvFcnicvuyES2Gwxx3szfDkg2F4BXxw/s1600/101nights.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWXBb00IInDYXRd62Akj8pr7MLiWPJjALL85UK8drOAN3_VSrUmYYlshyphenhyphenWtIbmJ-BN5nXphPt13S_O7bQYerp3_NLC8b6hlRmL64FrAMy4qGMMvFcnicvuyES2Gwxx3szfDkg2F4BXxw/s400/101nights.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The <i>101 Nights </i>contains 17 stories, two of which can also be found in the <i>1001 Nights</i>, with most set in India. Ott adds, “It is certainly not by chance that this backdrop has something Oriental about it when seen from an Arabic perspective. It is an image of an Orient that is far away, unfamiliar and exotic — for this reason, particularly attractive."<br /><br />Ott first saw the manuscript on display at a museum in Berlin, and when she had the chance to look at, soon discovered its importance. She has translated the work into German.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/arabian-nights-has-smaller-sibling" target="_blank">You can read more about this discovery from the Egypt Independent</a></b>

The 101 Nights - new book of Arabic tales discovered

A historian in Germany has come across a new collection of medieval Arabic stories - a kind of precursor to the famous book known as One Tho...

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When Newspapers Were New, or, How Londoners Got Word of the Plague

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Jp4KWJ9Z7ZWZQBA0J0tjilM5O3ltoDdhzpi21L0YFM5v7lxeeQz132IvLmNvNej9tKPqTc97Uj4Bk_a3AJzxJrTOjTpfuNXr0JDcaeiJqe0blHDCPydzpL3LIRD1lLxm94EAvPwUQHo/s1600/plague.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Jp4KWJ9Z7ZWZQBA0J0tjilM5O3ltoDdhzpi21L0YFM5v7lxeeQz132IvLmNvNej9tKPqTc97Uj4Bk_a3AJzxJrTOjTpfuNXr0JDcaeiJqe0blHDCPydzpL3LIRD1lLxm94EAvPwUQHo/s320/plague.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Daniel Defoe's novel about London's 1665 plague can help us understand new media. No, really.<br /><br /> The plague was abroad.  Londoners knew not where it had come from, only that it was upon Holland. "It was brought, some said from Italy, others from the Levant, among some goods which were brought home by their Turkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus," Daniel Defoe wrote in the opening of his historical novel, <i>A Journal of the Plague Year</i>.<br /><br /> The book, which many read as something like non-fiction, bore the webby subtitle, <i>being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665,</i> and bore stamps of authenticity -- it was "Written by a citizen who remained all the while in London" -- and intrigue, having "Never [been] made public before."<br /><br /> Which, as a journalist of the web era, made me think: that Defoe knew how to gin up some pageviews! And in fact, Defoe did. (If you can't see the translation to the headline argot du jour, allow me: 73 Amazing and Horrible Things That Happened During the Plague, From Someone Who Saw Them With His Own Two Eyes. And no, I didn't count. But the point is: <i>no one's counting</i>.)<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/when-newspapers-were-new-or-how-londoners-got-word-of-the-plague/272638/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from The Atlantic</a></b>

When Newspapers Were New, or, How Londoners Got Word of the Plague

Daniel Defoe's novel about London's 1665 plague can help us understand new media. No, really. The plague was abroad. Londoners kne...

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The medieval Jewish poet who preceded Chaucer

Rare poems documenting the persecution of Norwich's medieval Jewish community, in the period preceding the expulsion from England in 1290, are being given a new lease of life thanks to the work of a dedicated group of residents.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfItVw9IktEnIZQ22IuQLE-aSQJ5TGJgPs1xCqxJ3l8SHzG9FJ7vFPNN9jVySc95Fjyj5Tnp99Y571Hn71QwGfqowMJ8sdDOhglhphNqyF9ThUtBt_o0Epy_SRQO72-abmn26LjfOEyA/s1600/imagelarge651468-.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfItVw9IktEnIZQ22IuQLE-aSQJ5TGJgPs1xCqxJ3l8SHzG9FJ7vFPNN9jVySc95Fjyj5Tnp99Y571Hn71QwGfqowMJ8sdDOhglhphNqyF9ThUtBt_o0Epy_SRQO72-abmn26LjfOEyA/s400/imagelarge651468-.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The East Anglia town was one of the hubs of Jewish life in medieval Britain, along with York and London. It became notorious in 1144 when the first recorded "blood libel" occurred there, following the discovery of the bloodied body of William of Norwich on the outskirts of the town, and persecution and attacks on the Jewish community remained common in the subsequent 150 years.<br /><br />It is estimated that up to 150 Jews were living in the town in the 13th century, among them Rabbi Meir Ben Eliahu, a poet known as "Meir of Norwich" who wrote at least 20 poems.<br /><br />Little is known about Rabbi Meir and it is not clear whether or not he completed his writing after fleeing England, but his connection to the town is made clear in one poem, where the initial lines are an acrostic that spell: "I am Meir, son of Rabbi Eliahu, from the city of Norwich which is in the land of isles called Angleterre. May I grow up in the Torah of my Creator and in fear of him; Amen, Amen, Selah."<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/82732/the-medieval-jewish-poet-who-preceded-chaucer" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from TheJC.com</a></b>

The medieval Jewish poet who preceded Chaucer

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Ancient Poem Praises Murderous Roman Emperor Nero

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibvjS2EFtpDNsTK48daHV8QXjLDGsp_tuPl9gdTGUqAXJH_VqyxuRE7-IXqi3pYJzqZq9Kzf_zTaXBKjfW_hRVEssLmbhehT_Y4HBoMjoAE1S3wXtXytjAAm386SGqoSiBqH8QYMbDQmc/s1600/papyrus-poem-2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibvjS2EFtpDNsTK48daHV8QXjLDGsp_tuPl9gdTGUqAXJH_VqyxuRE7-IXqi3pYJzqZq9Kzf_zTaXBKjfW_hRVEssLmbhehT_Y4HBoMjoAE1S3wXtXytjAAm386SGqoSiBqH8QYMbDQmc/s200/papyrus-poem-2.jpeg" width="133" /></a></div>A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt, deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of the infamous Roman emperor Nero, showing her ascending to the stars.<br /><br /> Based on the lettering styles and other factors, scholars think the poem was written nearly 200 years after Nero died (about 1,800 years ago), leaving them puzzled as to why someone so far away from Rome, would bother composing or copying it at such a late date.<br /><br /> In the poem, Poppaea ascends to heaven and  becomes a goddess. The ancient goddess Aphrodite says to Poppaea, "my child, stop crying and hurry up: with all their heart Zeus' stars welcome you and establish you on the moon..." <br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.livescience.com/22650-ancient-poem-praises-nero-poppaea.html" target="_blank">Click here to read this article by Owen Jarus from LiveScience</a></b>

Ancient Poem Praises Murderous Roman Emperor Nero

A just-deciphered ancient Greek poem discovered in Egypt, deifies Poppaea Sabina, the wife of the infamous Roman emperor Nero, showing her a...

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Vikings were “first to begin criminal profiling”, historian says

The Saga of Egil Skallagrimsson tells the story of a tenth-century Viking warrior who took part in raids in Europe and often fought with his own neighbours in Iceland. When his life’s story was written in the thirteenth-century, was the author using him as an example of the type of man that society had to worry about?<br /><br /> Tarrin Wills, a researcher from the University of Aberdeen, believes that Viking societies themselves were deeply concerned about these violent and unpredictable individuals – so much so that they took on the role of early criminal profilers – drafting descriptions of the most likely trouble-makers.<br /><br /> Wills presented his research yesterday to the British Science Festival, one of Europe’s largest science festivals. It is being held this year in Aberdeen and is expecting to attract over 50,000 people for its talks, discussions and workshops.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/08/vikings-were-first-to-begin-criminal-profiling-historian-says/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net</a></b>

Vikings were “first to begin criminal profiling”, historian says

The Saga of Egil Skallagrimsson tells the story of a tenth-century Viking warrior who took part in raids in Europe and often fought with his...

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Is Snow White Real? A Look Back Into The Life Story Of Countess Margarete Von Waldeck

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2IVgqcFElFqEsb_RFxruyj4bk-6-wSA4iZzmI3MaIOzF_vfZjOU5XbzJDcqrer586x__C-qiPamQW_QGWbaML1ezqmGNJk-c7WEPxqKBvu3-MzNJceBIjPR7BFGg7xuV61k5bF_oddo/s1600/thumb_4575855f69.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2IVgqcFElFqEsb_RFxruyj4bk-6-wSA4iZzmI3MaIOzF_vfZjOU5XbzJDcqrer586x__C-qiPamQW_QGWbaML1ezqmGNJk-c7WEPxqKBvu3-MzNJceBIjPR7BFGg7xuV61k5bF_oddo/s1600/thumb_4575855f69.jpeg" /></a></div>With the premiere of Rupert Sanders' "Snow White and the Huntsman," which hit theaters on Friday starring Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron, many are wondering if the folk tale popularized by the Brothers Grimm and Walt Disney of the girl with hair as black as ebony and skin as white as snow is based on a real person.<br /><br /> Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, the authors of the original "Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge" or the story "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," were German scholars who collected, researched and wrote stories based on folklore in the early 1800's.Treating the stories spread by word of mouth as scholarly research, the Grimm brothers eventually compiled more than 200 stories, one being Snow White, based on accounts from various people from peasants to aristocrats, which drew some criticism based on the factual nature during the transcription process.<br /><br /> However, in 1994, a German scholar named Eckhard Sander wrote "Schneewittchen: Marchen oder Wahrheit?" which translates to" Snow White: Is It a Fairy Tale?" in an effort to debunk claims that the protagonist in Snow White was never a real person or not based in historical fact. According to Sander, the account from the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale Snow White was based on the life of Margarete von Waldeck, a German countess who was the mistress of a Spanish prince during the 1500's.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/347815/20120601/snow-white-real-story-huntsman-waldeck-margarete.htm" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from the International Business Times</a></b><br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/01/snow-white-and-the-huntsman/" target="_blank">Click here to see our page on Snow White and the Huntsman</a></b>

Is Snow White Real? A Look Back Into The Life Story Of Countess Margarete Von Waldeck

With the premiere of Rupert Sanders' "Snow White and the Huntsman," which hit theaters on Friday starring Kristen Stewart, Chr...

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The ideal medieval Jewish woman

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNdTYZmNGJqOMMKIH6NEMMOt5WRxDyLrcehEzYI27Fb68kV-tPjZrzvJZ25zd0lDsmUFGOokiuZe-CSwgWS7GGNNNPfgauorU7rwAbxMD3zMPsFffbAphE7l0t8_fSDLezAI9KUbOAQDM/s1600/jerusalem_post_logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNdTYZmNGJqOMMKIH6NEMMOt5WRxDyLrcehEzYI27Fb68kV-tPjZrzvJZ25zd0lDsmUFGOokiuZe-CSwgWS7GGNNNPfgauorU7rwAbxMD3zMPsFffbAphE7l0t8_fSDLezAI9KUbOAQDM/s1600/jerusalem_post_logo.jpg" /></a></div>Whenever one reads about Jewish women in medieval Ashkenaz, the name of Dolce of Worms is certain to appear. (Dolce is derived from the Latin for pleasant or charming). Her life is described in the famous elegy composed by her widowed husband which is his version of “A Woman of Valor” (Proverbs 31). This poetic composition is preceded by two paragraphs in prose that provide graphic details of her death in 1196.<br /><br />The poem contains the author’s name, R. Elazar, in an internal acrostic; its content portrays an ideal woman who seems to have been involved in an unbelievable number of activities. Dolce and Elazar were German Jewish pietists, known as Hasidei Ashkenaz. Thus the emphasis in the elegy on her piety, her God-fearing lifestyle and her saintliness are part and parcel of the values of this society.<br /><br />It seems as though Dolce never sat still for a moment, or at least not according to her husband’s account. She engaged in the usual wifely activities expected of an Orthodox woman, cooking for her family and allowing her learned husband to be totally involved in Torah study and good deeds and encouraging her sons to study. This might seem to have been enough to occupy her time, but Elazar was nowhere near finished. As it turns out, Dolce was busy spinning thread for tefillin and for binding books as well as scrolls. According to this report, she sewed approximately 40 Torah scrolls and prepared the wool for prayer shawl fringes.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=267586" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from the Jerusalem Post</a></b>  <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=medievalistsn-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0415937124&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_top&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>

The ideal medieval Jewish woman

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The Riddle Of Mark Twain's Passion For Joan Of Arc

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02Ocs4AlsI3b0sFCsEWrfWwa89PlQ2dRKXZRrGaMAfkIAHS_81_64F8ATlJUG6_vDtlzokByS7Zt2keQWz0k_Be-7Ts-bN84zg8L7-9L5CkpjAaX-kJtTRPcBSj7ED9LtaTwtzSE64Nk/s1600/mark-twain.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02Ocs4AlsI3b0sFCsEWrfWwa89PlQ2dRKXZRrGaMAfkIAHS_81_64F8ATlJUG6_vDtlzokByS7Zt2keQWz0k_Be-7Ts-bN84zg8L7-9L5CkpjAaX-kJtTRPcBSj7ED9LtaTwtzSE64Nk/s1600/mark-twain.jpeg" /></a></div>Mark Twain’s obsession with Joan of Arc has to rank among the most baffling and least talked about enigmas in American literature. Even for those entrenched within the competitive world of Twain scholarship, stories like the one above are usually treated as interesting, but ultimately trifling, anecdotes, illustrative of the eccentricities of a predictably unconventional man.<br /><br /> The same might also be said of his book about the French heroine. Published in 1896, when its author was 61, <i>Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc </i>has long been viewed as something of an aberration, a curio—the type of genre-bending work that a bored, established writer often undertakes in order to buck audience expectations. Narrated by a fictionalized version of Joan’s servant and scribe, Sieur Louis de Conte, the book spans the majority of Joan’s life, beginning with her childhood in eastern France and ending with her questionable trial and execution. While other Twain novels such as <i>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court</i> and <i>The Prince and the Pauper</i> are also set in medieval Europe, far from the author’s more familiar milieu of mid-19th century Missouri, Recollections is unique in its somber tone.  <br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.theawl.com/2012/04/the-riddle-of-mark-twains-passion-for-joan-of-arc" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from The Awl</a></b>  <iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=medievalistsn-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=1619492792&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_top&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe><iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=medievalistsn-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=1936041774&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_top&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>

The Riddle Of Mark Twain's Passion For Joan Of Arc

Mark Twain’s obsession with Joan of Arc has to rank among the most baffling and least talked about enigmas in American literature. Even for ...

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