Coming in 2017

16/1/2017

Coming in 2017

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As dangerous as it may sound, the Anglo-Saxon Monk is starting to think ahead. He is planning to introduce a few new topics to his website and blog over the coming year and is looking for some feedback from his blessed readers.

The Anglo-Saxon Monk has been deep in thought. Image: © Christopher Monk 2017

You see, his creative juices are beginning to flow and he is hoping to break free from his eleventh-century doldrums to venture into a new world of vlogging!

Ideally, he would like to produce regular videos covering topics related to the Anglo-Saxon period: art, cultural history, language... sex and violence, death and destruction... the possibilities are endless.

What is needed from you, most blessed ones, is an indication of the types of subjects you might wish to see the Anglo-Saxon Monk address in a 5 minute piece to camera.

The material will be factually based, drawing upon a deep well of scholarly study, but you need to be aware that it will be presented by a slightly delusional, grown-up man dressed in Benedictine garb, sitting in his alter ego's twenty-first century home. (Dr Monk has said he doesn't mind too much, and anyway he is being duly compensated.)

Moreover, the Anglo-Saxon Monk cannot guarantee he will not succumb to his innate weakness for wit and vivacity. Modest fellow, that he is. So if you're one of the Monk's more serious minded readers (there are some?), you may wish to give this a miss.

So get thinking, and let your favourite Anglo-Saxon Monk know what you want by leaving your comments below.

14 Comments

Deborah

16/1/2017 02:52:50 pm

Hello Favourite Anglo Saxon Monk,
I would love to read about early music, script, especially as it developed in your area. Also, religion as it developed is of interest...however I will probably sit through most anything.

Christopher Monk

16/1/2017 06:35:02 pm

Many thanks, Deborah. I know I'm probably the ONLY Anglo-Saxon monk you know, but I will accept your compliment, coerced from you even though it was.

Music is something I would like to explore in vlog format. Dr Monk is actually writing an academic piece on music in, the context of joy, for a book about Anglo-Saxon emotions and the senses. But he'll be terribly dull about it, no doubt.

I may look into collaborating with some musicians to see what we can come up with.

Religion is definitely on the cards.

Andy link

16/1/2017 03:52:16 pm

Looking forward to this so much! Any aspects of daily living, recipes, sleeping arrangements would be good. Also - would it be ok if I shared them on my site too?

The Anglo-Saxon Monk

16/1/2017 06:27:06 pm

Thank you, Andy. Someone else on my Facebook page has asked for something food related. Umm, an Anglo-Saxon cookery vlog? Dr Monk has just had a new kitchen put in. So if he shows me how to use his wizardrous induction hob, this could be on.

Carol W

16/1/2017 05:35:20 pm

Would love to see anything you come up with - also what about a time travel vlog of you taking viewers around the special AngloSaxon places and giving your own special slant on them as opposed to the Hysteric England & Natty Truss versions ?

16/1/2017 06:41:56 pm

Do I detect a hint of cynicism, Carol W? Are you tired of stuffy presentations? Someone else on my Facebook has suggested I do some sightseeing. We shall see what I can do.

Beverley

22/1/2017 08:22:09 pm

Anglo Saxon knees ups and orgies please!

22/1/2017 09:24:46 pm

The Anglo-Saxon Monk tells me he knows not what you mean. I'll explain it to him and see what we can come up with. I'd say 'knees up' is a definite. The Anglo-Saxons liked their mead! Orgies nay be more problematic.

Carys link

22/1/2017 08:22:23 pm

Hello, Anglo Saxon Monk! Anglo Saxon literature and history really isn't my area... but such things as the Gothic, horror and urban legends are. So I was wondering... is there an Anglo Saxon equivalent of the urban legend, e.g. Slenderman, the Loch Ness Monster, and if so, what were they?

22/1/2017 09:33:40 pm

Hello Carys. The Anglo-Saxons were big into monsters. There are two well known monster catalogues that detail all sorts of wondrous creatures. I think the dragon (Old English 'wyrm') is the classic Anglo-Saxon equivalent to an urban legend. The famous poem Beowulf of course has a dragon/wyrm which is key to the story. Its lust for hoarding gold and treasure is legendary. It all seems very common place now, but the dragon/wyrm in England has its origins in the cultural imagination of the Anglo-Saxons.

Carys

29/1/2017 10:43:16 pm

Cool! If the Anglo-Saxon wyrm has lapsed into obscurity, it is our duty to rescue it! (This is me thinking of pinching it for my own blog sometime, sorry!)

30/1/2017 09:59:22 am

The more wyrms the better! Please send us a link to your blog post when you've done it.

H. Rafferty link

5/2/2017 06:49:49 am

Be highly interested in commerce btwn anglo-saxon brethren & those of the Muslim countries. My sister - a discoverer of anglo-saxon villages in Louth area - says business ties were good, despite differences of opinion re religion. She also advises u to wear a sapphire for chastity (she found a beautiful chastity ring in the remains of a monastery she discovered.) Good luck with your 2017 blog!

5/2/2017 07:18:51 am

Many thanks indeed, H. Rafferty, for such an excellent suggestion. Something on international trade and relations will be added to my list. Thank your sister forcthe chastity advice. I need all the encouragement I can get. Do you happen to have a link to any of her archaeological work?

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