Greetings—and thank you for reading my debut post on this site, for the design and construction of which credit goes to Allie Marbry. I do not plan to clog this brand-new venue with all publications that may be licitly posted. The fullest depot will remain under my name on academia.edu. Instead, I aim to use this spot for highlighting more photogenically and perhaps more purposefully some major clusters in past work, especially books. In addition, I may tip my hand about what lies ahead.
In 2020 and afterward the pandemic, in conjunction with changes within my own place of employment, brought home how much medievalists and Medieval Latinists worldwide contribute to my life, both intellectual and otherwise. I have not the faintest ambition to establish a formal global network through social media and to spend life engaging in polemics in chains of comments. That said, I retain a strong yearning to hear and be heard, to read and be read, to learn and to teach. The Latin verb lego, -ere has English derivatives that say it all, such as lecture, legend, lesson, and (who could forget?) legible.
This semester I am teaching, never before except for graduate students, one course on “Virgil in the Middle Ages” and, for the first time ever, another on “Romanness after Rome.” Those commitments will keep me from blogging much. Lucky you! But brace yourselves to hear back from me now and again about other projects, especially two books coming to fruition and my upcoming plenary for Kalamazoo. Stay tuned!