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The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 5d

Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1370). Illu...

www.representing-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight.com

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much for sharing 😊

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 5d

Hey Rachel, I messaged you for an interview on your link tree email, just hoping to cut through the spam with this.

Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 6d

Its an intelligent and ambivalent reading, but ultimately it is far more generous than I am willing to be [to Lewis], my take prioritizes his aesthetic world, and I just don't think he was being ironic there in the ways his redeemers do. But from the snippets and sample I have read it looks good.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · 6d

My PhD thesis is cited in Wyndham Lewis: Modernism and the New Radical Right
by Luke Gilfedder a few times, he takes issue but represents me accurately, your in there too @malrog.bsky.social I try to expose Lewis's anti temporal sympathy by applying your ideas so I have dragged you into this fight!

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Aug 23

This is a wonderful publication, intelligent and engaging

The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · Aug 10

The So What is on Bluesky! Check out our website at www.arthuriana.com/tsw to read our first two issues!

Blog 2 — Arthuriana

www.arthuriana.com

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jul 9

Wow, congratulations that’s amazing

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jul 8

I'm cited here in a PhD thesis 'Feminist Horror After #MeToo: A24’s Monstrous White Women' www.proquest.com/openview/7e3...
by Dr Laurel Anne Carlson

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jul 6

For those who may be interested ☺️ my slides and painting from my talk 'Gawain is Not a Hero' from the @themamoconf.bsky.social are available to view on the UAL research depository (no transcript as yet since its in peer review but plenty of information) ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24...

Gawain is Not a Hero? Tensions Between the Heroic and the Complex Subject in Representations of Sir Gawain in Art - UAL Research Online

UAL Research Online is the online showcase of the research produced at University of the Arts London. We hold, manage, share and preserve the research material produced by the University's researchers...

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jul 4

Some of today’s drawings, pareidolia/observations from the Ashridge woods.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jul 2

Sounds great, hope it goes well!

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jul 2

You could easily think W.J.T Mitchell was a script advisor, I loved it lots of ‘false remembering’ and cultural decay, and it’s set where I’m from which was interesting.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jul 1

28 Years Later is really on the money, worth a look, I can see you covered in iodine building scull towers in a few years (that’s a compliment if you see the movie)

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jun 29

It was lovely to meet you Rebecca and to hear about your intricate, meta research, hope to hear you talk about it officially.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jun 29

Coincidentally I just recommended this to @mirabelledomine.bsky.social and @lukeewalker.bsky.social in relation to their exciting film project that mixes English landscape, visionary experience, and madness with religious themes strange that it gets so little attention.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jun 29

Photographs taken by @lukeewalker.bsky.social

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jun 29

Some more images from MAMO conference @themamoconf.bsky.social I’m with esteemed company here, Professor Sarah Salih (KCL), Dr Josh Davies (KCL), and the wonderful Dr Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social (Oxford). Such a rich experience for me and lots of new friends made 😊

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jun 28

Keeping this in mind 😂

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jun 27

A lot of people have asked about the little figure on the table, its an image of an octopus on a horse, after a Japanese netsuke-type figurine, I saw one as a child and it stuck with me as an absurd image, its large head out of place, a bit like Gawain throughout the poem.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jun 27

This was a spellbinding performance, I was lost in the world evoked by Daisy, who can also sing!

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jun 27

3/3: ...complex subjectivity in the name of a simple action based, and often hyper masculine mindset: Gawain's discernment, his failure, and knowledge of it, is one way to resist and celebrate another path which makes this figure highly relevant to our cultural moment.

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jun 27

2/3: ...than Gawain, who through his trial with Green Knight and his encounters with Lady Bertilak is provided with a condition in the present, rather than the iconic heroic status he clings too. There is a disturbing modern fashion for attacks on...

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jun 27

1/3: Delivering the keynote @themamoconf.bsky.social 2025 has been a wonderful (if daunting) highlight of my research activity, the painting below was made as a response to the invitation, it and the plenary were attempts to understand the women of the poem as more temporally complex figures...

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · Jun 26

The plenary talk by @michaeledenart.bsky.social at @themamoconf.bsky.social on Gawain & the Green Knight was ✨MAGNIFICENT✨ Michael’s artwork- incl his painting here, Gawain between Two Deaths- is fantastic 👏 Also, a total pleasure to chat to Michael at the conf too! 😘

Gawain Between Two Deaths painting by Michael Eden

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Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social · Jun 26

It was wonderful talking to you too Laura, glad you liked the painting,

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