Signum University

A non-profit, online higher education institution. Specializing in Tolkien Studies, Imaginative Literature, Germanic Philology, and Classic Literature.

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SPACE invites you to enjoy a Special Promotion of 20% off each 1-Token purchase!

This discount applies to single-token (1-pack) purchases only. Use multiple times per order. Ends April 30 at midnight ET. Use code SINGLETOKEN20 at checkout on Blackberry!

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Every year the community of Signum University: students, fans, and staff gather in person and online for Mythmoot! Join us to experience academic papers and panels, hijinks, creative showcases, our first-ever Mythmoot book club, formal and informal discussions, great food, and long-lasting memories.

Festivities and formal presentations run from Thursday through Sunday- you are welcome to register for any or all days with Guests of Honor Michael D.C. Drout, Kij Johnson, and Larry Swain.

Mythmoot XIII: Unexpected Company - June 25-28, 2026
https://t.co/Om3taWhW8M
Registration and lodging are available in Blackberry!
Staying at the National Conference Center? You must purchase both your ticket and lodging by June 1.

Merch is available https://t.co/NTr35B99t1 - shirts, hoodies, stickers, notebooks, tapestries, and more!

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Signum Press is proud to present Christopher S. M. Lyon's A Slow and Secret Poison: The Fall of the Roman Republic 146-31 BC, available as a paperback on Amazon https://t.co/3vL1IAIXVP and ebook at the Signum Store https://t.co/mhH7ok8UOx

The Roman Republic did not die in a single stroke. It was poisoned.

For nearly a century, a succession of ambitious men of Rome each administered a fresh dose to an institution already corrupted by faction, graft, and the slow surrender of civic virtue to personal glory. By the time Octavian’s fleet shattered Antony’s at Actium in 31 BC, the cure had killed the patient. Rome had a single, omnipotent master.

A Slow and Secret Poison traces the long, violent unmaking of the Roman Republic—from the rhetorical thunder of the Gracchi brothers to the burning ships at Actium and the last of the pharaohs dying in her Alexandrian tomb. Drawing exclusively on the ancient sources—Plutarch, Appian, Suetonius, Cassius Dio, Sallust, and Caesar himself—Christopher S. M. Lyon restores the late Republic to its own voices, its own quarrels, and its own blood.

Here are Marius and Sulla, Pompey and Crassus, Caesar and Antony—not as marble busts but as ambitious, ruthless men dosing an ailing state with a venom that took a hundred years to kill. The poison was not in any single act, but in the slow erosion of restraint, the steady normalization of violence, and the seductive bargain by which a desperate populace traded a republic for a master.

A vivid, sweeping account of the most consequential and evocative collapse in Western history—and the first volume of Legends and Legacies, a seven-volume history of Europe from the fall of the Republic to the fall of Constantinople.

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Signum University Graduate School presents Thesis Theater "It’s All in Plato: Bringing the Sophistic Critique into the Lewis-Plato Conversation" by John Michael Southards, on May 13, 5p ET.

Though the scholarly conversation surrounding the relationship between C.S. Lewis and Plato is robust, it does not yet include Lewis's use of Plato’s critique of the sophists. Reading Plato and the sophists alongside Lewis’s The Last Battle, The Silver Chair, and his non-fictional work The Abolition of Man, John Southards demonstrates how Lewis takes up Plato's critique of the sophists, both echoing and building on the philosopher's ideas in his critique of modern subjectivism.

https://t.co/O9Q4PJFP3G

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Signum Press is proud to present another Signum Classic: George MacDonald's Lilith- George MacDonald’s darkest fantasy! Now available is as a paperback https://t.co/rUOSXjmeUz and ebook https://t.co/X8L6cIB4qE
SPACE's Lilith module is available for pre-enrollment until May 15 https://t.co/dXI3VdYu1W

Exploring his family’s haunted residence, Mr. Vane uncovers a portal to a strange mirror dimension. He plunges into a parallel realm where ravens speak, skeletons do battle, and sleepers dream of a world redeemed… And where Lilith, exile of Eden, holds dominion.

A mesmerizing allegory of death and salvation, Lilith exerted a powerful influence on C.S. Lewis’ Narnia. H.P. Lovecraft hailed MacDonald’s novel for its “compelling bizarrerie.”

Also included is an introduction and discussion questions by Julian Barr, as well as MacDonald’s essay “A Sketch of Individual Development.”

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Signum University extends our warmest CONGRATULATIONS! to all of this year's Tolkien Society Award Winners! 🎉
~Michael Drout is the winner of the Best Book award, and will be a Guest of Honor at our upcoming Mythmoot!
~Tom Hillman won the Best Article award for the paper he first presented at Mythmoot last June.
~Miriam Ellis won the Best Art award, and will be presenting at Cascade Moot this August.

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SPACE invites you to enjoy a Special Promotion of 20% off each 1-Token purchase!

This discount applies to single-token (1-pack) purchases only. Use multiple times per order. Ends April 30 at midnight ET. Use code SINGLETOKEN20 at checkout on Blackberry!

https://t.co/mqY76ekW2D

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Join us for our Spring SPACE Showcase on Saturday, April 18th in celebration of our 4.5-year mark of the SPACE program. We’d love to see you there! Don't miss Dr. Corey Olsen's Signum University Update at 1pm ET, following the Showcase!

Register on Blackberry through April 18: https://t.co/ms8mK5mSwR

Schedule:
Morning
- Showcase Capsules (join any or all!)

* Tolkien's Great Tales: The Tale of Beren and Luthien
* From Nero's Scapegoats to Imperial Bureaucrats: The First Christian Persecutions
* Many Voices, One Song: Leadership in Tolkien's Middle-earth
* Embodied Speaking: Comfort, Dynamism & Connection for Any Talk
* The Dark Zone: Caves, Myths, & Meaning in Medieval English Literature

Afternoon
-Spotlights and Q&A with Rob and Corey
-Signum University Update with Corey at 1pm

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Interested in discussing Dr. Corey Olsen's Exploring the Lord of the Rings podcast? Signum University is hosting live Discussion Groups via Zoom through our Blackberry platform (https://t.co/yNT7z1OHhm).

Groups will meet once per month for 1 hour for live discussion via Zoom. Sessions will be recorded as well in case you are unable to attend live and are FREE for our first 3 months!

Register: https://t.co/PpAzcwsrpk

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Signum University Graduate School presents Thesis Theatre on April 11 at 3p ET:
"The Old Swedish Bjärköarätten: an English Translation" with Tamara Bootsma

The complete Bjärköarätten, or Trading Town Law, of medieval Sweden, exists only in one manuscript (c. 1345) and has never before been translated into English. This first-ever English translation by Tamara Bootsma offers the English text side-by-side with the Old Swedish of the original manuscript. The medieval code focuses on criminal, maritime, and commercial law, the importance of the bailiff and council, and rules concerning witnesses and oaths. Tamara's translation places the Trading Town Law in its historical and cultural context and will serve as a vital source for scholars of medieval Scandinavian history, law, and language.

https://t.co/3Zj6Cem1VQ

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Launch into learning with SPACE! New students get $100 off their first class — just $75!
Existing SPACE traveller? Refer a friend and get a coupon for yourself as a thank you from SPACE!

https://t.co/fO4GBHqjNP

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Interested in discussing Dr. Corey Olsen's Exploring the Lord of the Rings podcast? Signum University is hosting live Discussion Groups via Zoom through our Blackberry platform (https://t.co/yNT7z1OHhm).

Groups will meet once per month for 1 hour for live discussion via Zoom. Sessions will be recorded as well in case you are unable to attend live and are FREE for our first 3 months!

Register: https://t.co/PpAzcwsrpk

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Come join us at the April SPACE Showcase on April 18, celebrating 4.5 years of SPACE. We’d love to see you there! Register by March 30th to be entered into a draw for a FREE SPACE TOKEN! The Spring Showcase will feature 30-minute Capsule sessions—mini sample sessions on a variety of topics across our five main Sectors of learning: Creative Writing, Fantasy Studies, Language, General Humanities, and Living Arts. Join us! https://t.co/ms8mK5mSwR

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TOLKIEN READING DAY in WriterSpace
at 3:00 PM Eastern on March 25th
Come listen to Smith of Wootton Major

We will begin somewhere in the early middle and get as far as we may before time or Sparrow's voice runs out.

https://t.co/n7jcUsx7AK

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Try your luck at language this March in SPACE! 🍀🚀

Old English 1
Old Norse 2
Intermediate Readings in Japanese
Intermediate Readings in Old English
Advanced Old English Series: Readings in Poetry

https://t.co/NdieZJwySF

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March into Fantasy Studies with SPACE!

Signum Classics: Dracula
A Pilgrim’s Journey through Narnia: Part 1: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Tolkien as Mythmaker: The Architecture of Middle-earth

https://t.co/ZGBKGYAoIq

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Explore SPACE this March with General Humanities:

A History of the Vikings: The Viking Diaspora
Last Seen Wearing by Hillary Waugh: Discovering a Turning Point in Crime Fiction
Rebellions Are Built On Hope: Andor, Season 2
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https://t.co/eDDSroA0Fx

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Summer MA Course Registration is OPEN! Term starts April 27, 2026.

Confirmed:
Introduction to the Gothic Language
Race, Gender & the Other in Tolkien

**With Demand:
Foundations in Critical Reading & Research**
Introduction to Germanic Philology II**

Submit with demand course interest form by Sunday, March 22nd https://t.co/zcfCpNHpjJ

Registration deadline for all Summer courses is May 8th
https://t.co/abttRDPP2k

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Mythmoot registration is open! With Guests of Honor Michael D.C. Drout, Kij Johnson, and Larry Swain, and lodging and Call for Papers and every good thing!

Mythmoot XIII: Unexpected Company - June 25-28, 2026
https://t.co/bTDE9o3jTu

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Launch into learning with SPACE! New students get $100 off their first class — just $75!
Existing SPACE traveller? Refer a friend and get a coupon for yourself as a thank you from SPACE!

https://t.co/fO4GBHqjNP