I’ve been idly reading about cruentation, the belief that the wounds of a murdered person bleed afresh if the murderer’s near. You’ll remember it from…
Here’s an excellent book I wish had come out in 2018 instead of 2020. Although it’s mostly reprinted materials, and though I’ve already read Ginzburg…
This is my talk for the International Congress on the Study of the Middle Ages, Leeds, 2022, session on “Borders of Human Nature, Boundaries of…
The text of my talks and their powerpoints will all be available in this OneDrive Folder.
I am a respondent to “On the Human / Nonhuman / Posthuman in Medieval China I” at the Medieval Academy of America Conference in Charlottesville,…
To elaborate on this tweet: The big reveal of the fourteenth-century Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is that Morgan le Fey has concocted the whole masquerade…
My paper for the 2021 Online Piers Expo. The opening act of A Woman of No Importance has Lord Illingsworth famously dismiss fox-hunting as “the unspeakable in…
Pico della Mirandola’s late fifteenth-century oration On the Dignity of Man is still sometimes awarded laurels for bounding up past the Middle Ages into modernity’s…
It is, generally speaking, now a faux pas among medieval scholars to diagnose Margery Kempe as being a psychotic, a hysteric, an epileptic, and so…
By 1666, the year Margaret Cavendish published her Blazing World and its companion volume, her Observations on Experimental Philosophy, the population of Barbados had risen,…
