https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/ginabrandolino/activity/ Activity feed for Gina Brandolino. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:31:18 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bf449d19f5c36ee941caa6a7b09adf2d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690198/ Sun, 07 Jun 2020 21:42:18 +0000 This article describes a lesson plan I designed to help students explore the complexity of Piers Plowman’s character both in Langland’s poem and beyond it. The lesson employs Piers’ appearances outside Langland’s text, specifically, in the letters written by participants of the Great Rising of 1381, and compares them to an unlikely paralle…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f200fa7c1097b60de76acc26e564465 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1690196/ Sun, 07 Jun 2020 20:55:38 +0000 0 f107d5fa4d1391c667e2b03be1ee52a2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637963/ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:10:32 +0000 This article expands on recent scholarship which treats miracle stories as not just facile devotional tales but complicated texts worthy of analysis. Specifically, it builds on the claims of scholars who have demonstrated that Mary is characterized in sophisticated ways in miracle stories. Focusing on one text in particular, a Marian miracle most…[Read more]

]]> 0 5463c59e933081dbe02cbfa1fd88b3b7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570428/ Sun, 14 May 2017 17:24:57 +0000 0 30c539b4472236a461b94e5b90c3ee5d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570419/ Sun, 14 May 2017 13:40:41 +0000 0 14e3e826c5467880a185e404e1eae243 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570418/ Sun, 14 May 2017 13:39:27 +0000 Medieval women are often misrepresented, or just plain missing, from literary historical survey courses.

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]]> 0 46ebd101ef030f0c6bc5695daeed0a62 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570415/ Sun, 14 May 2017 13:20:33 +0000 Introduction to special issue of the journal Pedagogy: Teaching Medieval Literature off the Grid

]]> 0 7b3731de2c884ca4bb9bcd34028b315a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570413/ Sun, 14 May 2017 13:15:23 +0000 Innocent III’s decree requiring annual confession for all Christians led to the production of an astounding number of religious texts–initially, texts meant for priests to use to educate the laity but then also, and increasingly, texts intended for private consumption by the laity. This article explores the place of these texts in English…[Read more]

]]> 0 6949c7453e2cc41dec206a2e06586e65 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570412/ Sun, 14 May 2017 12:51:31 +0000 This article offers an analysis of the complex and contradictory nature of lay religious texts produced in England at the turn of the fifteenth century. These works are interesting because they include statements of both encouragement to and anxiety about lay Christians who pursue more singular forms of devotion. I focus on one text in…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea7adfc0ebf8b7824488045a66080d44 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1570411/ Sun, 14 May 2017 12:36:56 +0000 This article explores the unlikely parallels between OJ Simpson’s sensational confessional memoir If I Did It and The Book of Margery Kempe. Similarities between the two can be productive in the classroom.

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