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So long as one defines ‘successful medieval-interest blogs’ as ‘blogs read by people not typically interested in medieval things,’ Carl S. Pyrdum, III and Brantley L. Bryant are the bloggers behind what may safely be called the Internet's two most successful medieval-interest blogs to date – Got Medieval (www.gotmedieval.com) and Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog (www.houseoffame.blogspot.com), respectively. The editors of this special issue of postmedieval on ‘New Critical Modes’ asked them to interview one another via e-mail and to compile those e-mails into some semblance of a dialogue. What follows is the result of that request.
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‘Another Damned Medievalist’ is the pseudonym for the blogger behind the well-known medieval studies weblog Blogenspiel (www.blogenspiel.blogspot.com).
Richard Scott Nokes blogs at Unlocked Wordhoard (www.unlocked-wordhoard.blogspot.com).
Jeffrey Cohen blogs, along with Mary Kate Hurley, Eileen Joy, and Karl Steel, at In The Middle (www.inthemedievalmiddle.com).
See Bryant (2010).
See Bertocci (2010).
See Pyrdum (2010).
See Dinshaw (1999, 183–206).
See also Edmondson (2009).
See Bryant (2006).
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Bryant, B., Pyrdum, C. On medieval blogging. Postmedieval 2, 304–315 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2011.11
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