[Commlist] New book - Medieval Twitter

Alicia Spencer-Hall is delighted to announce the publication of the new 
book, /Medieval Twitter,/ with Arc Humanities Press.

In the book, I consider the ways in which Twitter intersects with 
medieval literature, medieval literary culture, and medieval 
studies---and vice versa. Discussions include the temporal dynamics of 
the platform and historical work, to reception and production practices, 
and what it means to be a medievalist online. The analysis is stridently 
interdisciplinary, with interventions in French, English, digital 
studies, and more.

Or as the blurb puts it:

This pioneering monograph provocatively explodes current research 
paradigms for the modern and the medieval by showing that Twitter shares 
key similarities with medieval literary forms, texts, and narrative 
techniques. Analyzing tweets with medieval texts, and vice versa, 
Spencer-Hall initiates readers into an innovative methodology of 
interdisciplinary literary criticism, posing vital questions about the 
politics of medievalism today. Chapters include brand-new readings of 
/The Owl and the Nightingale/, the /Chastelaine de Vergi/, and Marie de 
France’s /Laüstic/, and arresting insights into troubadour style, 
/Margery Kempe/, and #MedievalTwitter. The book culminates in a 
medieval(ist) reading of Twitter’s premature demise, and Elon Musk’s 
medievalism. Throughout, points of contact and divergence are dissected, 
re-contextualizing the socio-cultural meaning of communication and texts 
across the temporal divide.

Use the discount code ARC24 to get *25% off *purchase of the book on the 
Press website 
<https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781942401957/medieval-twitter/>.


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