Yes, interesting, definitely. hmm. I've enjoyed Loenen-Ruiz's Strange Horizons columns but haven't read her fiction yet--and I didn't know the bit about audience and Bodies in Motion.
actually Anglo-Saxon not medieval
I find this distinction confusing; do you (or does someone else who was there) happen to recall whether she meant a cultural difference or a temporal one? (Usually "medieval" subsumes both pre-Conquest English speakers and post-Conquest ones through somewhere in the 1450-1500 range, and Middle-earth braids a fair amount of Welsh, Icelandic, and Finnish with the Anglo-Saxon stuff.)
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actually Anglo-Saxon not medieval
I find this distinction confusing; do you (or does someone else who was there) happen to recall whether she meant a cultural difference or a temporal one? (Usually "medieval" subsumes both pre-Conquest English speakers and post-Conquest ones through somewhere in the 1450-1500 range, and Middle-earth braids a fair amount of Welsh, Icelandic, and Finnish with the Anglo-Saxon stuff.)