The view from Sgurr Bhasteir
Welcome
to C. Fee's homepage. I envision the world wide web as a friendly extension
of our homes and offices, a comfortable place where we can get to know
each other a little bit. My
contribution to this spirit of cyber-community is a musty and cramped little
corner, full of odds and ends and chaos (I am a medievalist, and a rather
odd chap, at that!), but perhaps the perfect spot for a quiet little respite
from the workaday hustle and bustle of the internet. So come in, hang out
as long as you like, poke around in my drawers a little bit, and just shut
the door quietly when you've had enough. Min ham bið ðin ham. Just
don't leave a mess. As Beowulf said to Grendel, what's the world come to
when a overnight guest won't lend you a hand when you're cleaning house?
Just kidding; this isn't a "hands-off" environment (another little pun
for the English majors out there)!
Click
this thumbnail to view images of the Team Gettysburg ascent of Mount Washington
on 18 December 2001.
Click this thumbnail to view images of the Team Gettysburg ascent of Mount Algonquin on 10 January 2003.
This page offers just a taste to get you started; from this site you may access a veritable cornucopia of text and graphics concerning the courses I teach, my research interests, my c-v, and oodles of fascinating Fee trivia. So sate yourself, and y'all come back now, hear?
Top Photo: M. Sanderson & C. Fee. The Black Cuillin, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Saturday, April 13, 1996. Credit: A. Singley, serious winter mountaineer.
Interested
in the Vikings? The image to the left depicts the Norse myth of Loki and
Otter; it was carved on a Christian cross-slab which is stored in the churchyard
at Maughold on the Isle of Man. Click the image to view a short video
concerning the Viking influence on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.
Loki is to the right; Otter's limbs are splayed, and his head points up.
He clutches a salmon in his mouth. Dozens of linked video clips, hundreds
of static images, and many interactive panoramas will be available (beginning
in 2001) from the Interactive and Multimedia Encyclopedia of Viking
Britain currently under construction by C. Fee and Gettysburg College
students.
All Viking Britain video clips, static images, and panoramas copyright 2000-2001 Gettysburg College and C. Fee.
Medieval Drama is hip and trendy, according to dozens of newspapers
in the autumn of 2000; read all about it in the Chicago
Sun-Times! In 2001 we tackled Allegory and all that Jazz! Following
in the footsteps of 1999's
highly acclaimed Hillbilly version of the Wakefield Noah, the
Spring 2001 Medieval Drama course produced a gangland, Jazz Age version
of the morality play
Mankind. Smooth sounds were courtesy of the
Joe Zoller Orchestra...play, man, play.... Our
2003 '70's After-school Special
version of Wit and Science featured music of a different sort, complete with
disco soundtrack and Fee in an impromptu (and ill-advised) solo version of
"Y-M-C-A..."All Wit and Science video clips, static images, and graphic animations copyright 2001 Gettysburg College and C. Fee.
If
you don't know Mankind, imagine Everyman with yucks; better
yet, envision an allegory put on by the boys of Monty Python. Video clips
are coming soon! For now, click the gangster picture for more information
on the Mankind
webpage! If you want to view an animated
film trailer, click the Mankind poster for a Flash movie!
All Mankind video clips, static images, and graphic animations copyright 2001 Gettysburg College and C. Fee.
Fans
of high-tech virtual tourism also may want to sample the travel itinerary
offered to the left (click on the image for a QTVR panoramic virtual
tour of the ruins of the Priory at Lindisfarne); simply click
and drag to look around each panorama. Move from one panorama to another
by clicking on any of the colored dots on the accompanying map. Dozens
of other panoramic tours of cultural and archaeological sites in Britain--complete
with student-composed guidebooks--may be accessed from my Viking Studies
and Battle for Britain coursesites (available through "courses" above),
or you may choose to begin your cyber travels (with text and static image
guides, as well as QTVR) by clicking
HERE.
All Battle for Britain panoramas copyright 1999 Gettysburg College and C. Fee.
Gods,
Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain
The islands of Britain have been a meeting ground of peoples and myths for thousands of years. The Ancient Celts displaced the earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes that were themselves nearly overcome by an influx of Scandinavians. Each of these groups brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs; with each succeeding wave of invasion, new mythic systems came into contact and conflict with previously established beliefs.
More information is available from Oxford University Press; click the image of the book-cover to visit OUP's website. Click HERE for a larger image of the Sanctuary Knocker.
Photo: The Sanctuary Knocker of Durham Cathedral. Credit: U.S. Rau, fine photographer, impressive intellect, and all-around good egg.