Category Archives: creative writing

Meet Margery, the species queer goat

Posted on March 14, 2024 by thegrailquest

I came to the farm as a young goat, and I have not seen anything in my life save the stall where I was born, my mother goat, a few of my relatives and some chicken. It thus came as … Continue reading →

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The mystery of the double cabbage soup

Posted on October 14, 2023 by thegrailquest

https://www.patreon.com/posts/90977846?utm_campaign=postshare_creator The mystery of the double cabbage soupThe cabbage soup, a staple of Russian culture, has a long and venerable history. In writing about the Lent in medieval and early modern Rus’, I mentioned the mouth-watering array of foods that, … Continue reading →

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An informal review of “Leading the Rebellion” by Jason Kingsley, OBE

Posted on July 28, 2023 by thegrailquest

By the time I received Jason Kingsley’s Leading the Rebellion, which had to go through the customs office because the UK is now the “abroad,” I was pretty sure I was not going to make any pretentious photos for social … Continue reading →

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Medievalist Overtones and Echoes of the Apocalypse in the Baltic LARP games, 2000-2010

Posted on June 8, 2023 by thegrailquest

At the Middle Ages in Modern Games twitter conference, I delivered a co-authored paper reflecting critically on my own experience as a LARPer. Some of the pics actually include yours truly, so you can have a good time trying to … Continue reading →

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Cutting the Stallion’s Tail: A Very Strange Crime that Might Have Occurred in Medieval Wales

Posted on February 20, 2020 by thegrailquest

Inspired by Edgar Rops, “The Horse in Welsh and Anglo-Saxon Law,” from The Horse in Premodern European Culture, ed. by Anastasija Ropa and Timothy Dawson Owain was neither thief nor coward, and he certainly did not want to appear like one. … Continue reading →

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