Rick Godden

Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature and Culture at LSU. Tweeting English Lit 140 char at a time.

[Rick Godden @ProfGodden]

Might retire this account for a bit. Feel free to follow my personal one - @RickGodden

[Rick Godden @RickGodden]

Fantastic essay on fashion and feminist medievalisms. https://t.co/IpfsOVoNz3

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Yn a worlde of pettye crueltye, be defiantlye wondirful.

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

To the studentes and scoleres and teacheres and researcheres finisshinge uppe the semester: Ye kan do yt! Ye are awesome!

[Damien Kempf @DamienKempf]

#MayThe4thBeWithYou

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away...
https://t.co/fUFQDEMPes
#MayTheFourthBeWithYou
Add MS 42130, f. 24r

[Rick Godden @ProfGodden]

@WitchSilent Will do!

[Jourdan Wright @jwrig75]

I think this is one of the best Frances Burney images on the internet: #LSUENG3020

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Louis Arthur Charles -- cool, but maybe lyke add a Niall or Liam or Harrye or Zayn?

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

"Chaucer and Humanitarian Activism": The Refugee Tales https://t.co/eFBbu1lJv7

[Rick Godden @ProfGodden]

@123ninagirl Sorry!

[Emily Steiner @PiersatPenn]

I love the emotional life displayed in these portraits.

Amiens, BM, 0354, Gratian, Decretum (Italy, 12thc) (a treatise on canon law) #medievaltwitter #Emotions

[Damien Kempf @DamienKempf]

How to deal with a mansplainer - four medieval ways.

[Discarding Images @discarding_imgs]

Black lion, Bartholomeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum (Occitan version), Toulouse ca. 1350 (Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 1029, fol. 79r)

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

An emoji to expresse that which kan nat be expressid
an emptye emoji, infinite voyde
a space

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[Rick Godden @ProfGodden]

@Wanderlust_562 Hah!

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

The worlde kan be a terrible playce sometymes. Hoold on to ech othir. Take care. Share songes and storyes of what ys goode. Helpe ech othir remembir the beautiful.

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

'Our ancestors divided all this Middle Earth, as far as the ocean... into three': opening line from possibly the earliest, mostly complete book in English at the British Library
https://t.co/oqcE7wPe2b
Add MS 47967, f. 5v

[Rick Godden @ProfGodden]

Date of death might be a bit moveable, too.

[Rick Godden @ProfGodden]

In honor of Shakespeare's deathday (impossible to know actual birthday), here is a handy sheet for generating Shakespearean insults! #LSUENG3020