| Title | Of sondry folk |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | What I Learned After My First Year as the Lone Medievalist on Campus |
| Contributor | Ann M. Martinez (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0205.1.27 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-ballad-of-the-lone-medievalist/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Martinez, Ann M. |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2018-08-23 |
| Long abstract | My first month as an assistant professor was a whirlwind. There were new people everywhere. Faculty, staff, administrators... everyone was very welcoming, and they all wanted to get to know me, so they asked: “What do you work on?” And my I-just-finished-my-dissertation-and-still-have-a-lot-to-say-about-it brain kicked in. I responded: “With a formalist methodology regarding textual analysis, a historicist approach to literature’s and to society’s attitudes about nature, and an ecocritical lens, I examine the periodization that sets the Middle Ages against other eras. This allows me to trace the extent to which attitudes toward land use, landscape beautification, and woodland de-lineation developed within Middle English literature. These me-dieval perspectives are a crucially important pre-history to our modern views regarding the use, exploitation, and sustainability of the environment.” |
| Page range | pp. 305–310 |
| Print length | 6 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |