Tag Archives: Faerie Queene

Reporting on My Lenten Observance

By Robin Bates | Published: May 14, 2022

For my Lenten observance, I read “Faerie Queene,” Book I–in which (at one point) Lenten observance gets taken to an extreme.

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My Lenten Reading: The Faerie Queene

By Robin Bates | Published: March 5, 2022

For this year’s Lenten reading I will be taking on Spenser’s “Faerie Queene.”

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Spenser Would Understand QAnon

By Robin Bates | Published: January 23, 2022

In “Faerie Queene,” Redcrosse Knight must contend with the monster Errour. Think of her as rightwing conspiracy theories.

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Morgan Le Faye through the Ages

By Robin Bates | Published: March 10, 2019

Monday Last week I finished teaching a short “Wizards and Enchantresses” course for Sewanee’s Lifelong Learning program and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Having already talked about my class on Merlin (see here, here, and here), today I share what I had to say about Morgan Le Faye and her successors. With Morgan, we looked at how […]

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The V-Word: Casting Hillary as Duessa

By Robin Bates | Published: January 5, 2016

The rightwing attacks on female sexuality have a long tradition, going back to Pliny the Elder, and include Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton. Expect the tradition to continue if Hillary Clinton is elected president.

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