Scholar’s Scroll

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. One Who Thinks the Renaissance Was Basically a Reboot with Better Fonts and Fewer Leeches  So, About That 100-Year Funk… Once upon a plague-ridden, sword-swinging, God-fearing time, Europe hit pause.No poetry, no printing, no fashion worth mentioning—just pestilence, pitchforks, and papal corruption. Historians call it the Dark Ages.Honestly, it was

By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Because poetry isn’t the only thing that wore a black cloak in the 1300s) Imagine living in a time where your to-do list looked something like this: Avoid the plague Dodge the Hundred Years’ War Find a husband before 15 Learn embroidery Die Welcome to 14th-century England, where life was short,

By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who firmly believes the Wife of Bath invented the “tell-all” format before TV caught up) Welcome to “The Canterbury Tales”: Medieval England’s Original Road Trip Series Before Bigg Boss, before Keeping Up with the Kardashians, before Netflix had time to buffer, there was a bunch of medieval pilgrims on their way

By ABS, The Literary Scholar Because before Thor had a hammer, Beowulf had a bare chest and a cause Before Superheroes, There Was a Geat Centuries before Hollywood gave us muscle-bound men in capes and billionaires with trauma-fueled tech suits, a poet in a smoky Anglo-Saxon mead hall was chanting the tale of Beowulf—a warrior