Comitatus @ Purdue

Medieval Studies Student Organization at Purdue University. (Run by @ChristyMcCarter, @AidanHoltan and @OliviaNammack)

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Worrye nat about beinge productyve, for thou art nat a product. Seeke wondir, kyndenesse, braverye, delighte.

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We would like to thank our amazing faculty, our fellow graduate students, and the wonderful undergraduates who also shared their papers for making our Comitatus Symposium a success. #ComiSymposium #medievaltwitter @purdue_english @PurdueLibArts

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We would like to thank our amazing faculty, our fellow graduate students, and the wonderful undergraduates who also shared their papers for making our Comitatus Symposium a success. #ComiSymposium #medievaltwitter @purdue_english @PurdueLibArts

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Our thanks to Logan Quigley for sharing his wonderful presentation on the human relationship to landscape, and how both route and survey knowledge and memory can speak to ecocritical thought. #ComiSymposium @lpquigley

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Rachel Atherton on sexuality at #ComiSymposium: "In no way were women to own their own bodies or sexualities." #MargeryKempe refuses to surrender her sexual agency to her husband despite being commodified by her sexual history and motherhood. @wrathertweets

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Christina Stober, featured undergraduate at #ComiSymposium, talks about the surprising gender dynamics and the role of women, including Asgerd and the venerable Thordis, in the Viking Sagas.

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Sarah McNeil, featured undergraduate at #ComiSymposium, talks about masculinity, honor, and the maintaining of a one-gender system in the Viking Sagas.

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Courtney Bonness, featured undergraduate at #ComiSymposium, shares her paper on situating the Viking legal system into the larger discourse of legal theory.

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Zoe Franznick, featured undergraduate at #ComiSymposium: We must read incontestable magic, practical magic, and otherworldly magic in the Viking Sagas as features of historical narratives.

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Arielle McKee on Thomas Chestre's _Launfal_: Chester "[composes] a narrative that actively contrasts the Faerie and human courts and their value systems...calling attention to Launfal's unique encounters in each conflicting space. #ComiSymposium @ArielleEmcee @purdue_english

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Amanda Leary: Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale associates "bad motherhood" with the "Other" through incest, sorcery/magic, and monstrosity #ComiSymposium

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Amanda Leary discusses medieval motherhood in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale: In reality, medieval mothering was probably somewhere in between sentimentalized maternal poetics and the absence of love. #ComiSymposium @purdue_english @phil_lit_purdue @PurdueLibArts

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Michelle Parsons-Powell argues that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight presents a division of tests structured around the number five: bravery, chivalry, love/chastity, spiritual devotion, and loyalty. #ComiSymposium

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Today is the day: the Comitatus in-house symposium! Please join us at the Purdue Graduate Student Center for our wonderful panels. @purdue_english @PurdueLibArts https://t.co/Z5z77MmWQG

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Please join us this Friday and Saturday at the Purdue Graduate Center for this spring's Comitatus Symposium! We have 5 wonderful panels and a presentation from our keynote speaker, Dr. Molly Martin. https://t.co/Z5z77MmWQG @purdue_english @PurdueLibArts @MollyHaney @GradPurdue

[A V Hudson @wyrdwritere]

Account of St George (Georgius) from a 10th-century copy of the Old English Martyrology. No dragons here, but it claims fire from the sky consumed his torturers + the emperor:
https://t.co/zHaIBeMYTu
Cotton MS Julius A X, f. 80v #StGeorgesDay #OTD

[BL Asian and African @BLAsia_Africa]

Remembering St George patron saint of England, Aragon, Catalonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia with a (Persian) dragon #StGeorgesDay #SharedHeritage https://t.co/zIb1eGMaqF

[International Marie de France Society @IMdFS]

If anyone would appreciate furry (and feathered) reading friends, it's #MariedeFrance.
Share your adorable reading buds! Pics w/ Marie get bonus points! (though the points don't matter.) #medievaltwitter #academicswithpets