Chapter 4After his graduate seminar—objects and materiality in the global Middle Ages, with fantastic students and future colleagues who were going to change the field—on Tuesday, Wes settled into office hours, on campus, and dealt with anxious undergraduates worried about research papers, and a PhD candidate wanting feedback on a dissertation chapter, and a kingdom’s worth of emails that’d somehow accumulated over the three hours he’d been in class. He answered the most urgent. He eyed an article submission that’d just come in for the Journal of Medieval Arts and Textile Cultures. He should probably get around to finding a reviewer for it. Branches rustled beyond his office window. Green and gold, against smoky blue October sky. Finn did love autumn. Wes had not ever previously had a f