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The Green Knight: History, Myth, and Modern Shame -- A Historian's View

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Green Night in the Movie and the Poem

i think that the movie, in this way, speaks to the sense of our own civilization being in decline to day. The green night does not just symbolize as it might have in the middle ages. It also represents a kind of vengeful nature intruding directly into and undermining an already weakened society. And in that way, obviously, it should practically go without saying this resinates with current anxieties about climate change and about ecological disaster in general. But that parallel, i think, is so obvious that i won't even dwell on it. Instead, i want to excavate more of what the poem is saying, and how the differences and the points of similarity and resonance between the

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