Humanities Magazine

Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

Cover of January/February 2010 Humanities

Many works by William Blake, including his interpretation of Chaucer’s pilgrims, are among the holdings of the Morgan Library & Museum.

—Detail from Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims. Copper engraving, hand-colored in water-color by the artist. Third state, ca. 1810-1820. Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Grace Lansing Lambert, 2005, 190.

Contents

Violent but Charming

The Dictionary of Old English explores the brutality and elegance of our ancestral tongue.

By Ammon Shea

The Museum of Morgan

At the recently expanded Morgan Library, visitors encounter architectural treasures and a peerless collection of manuscripts and art.

By Francis Morrone

Curio

Love and hate during wartime; Apocalypse not; and Voici the valley.

Statements

Nebraska hosts talks on a pioneer in abstract art and on the reach of the Mexican muralists, while a New York program discusses how Jewish settlers shaped the Wild West.