When I was still a grad student, I got my blogging start at In the Middle, in 2006, as a guest at what had started…
Amid the discussion in Goussin of Metz’s Image du Monde of various kinds of water — fresh, salty, black, poisonous, and so on — is…
Recommended Reading: THE ASSET ECONOMY (Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, and Martijn Konings), three Australian sociologists on the peculiar characteristics of modern economic inequality. Moving beyond…
The hunting and heraldry compilation known as The Boke of Saint Albans, printed in 1486, included in its 1496 edition the Treatyse of Fysshynge with…
Because of my work on medieval oysters, people have sent me, for years now, the same image of an angry medieval oyster. There it is,…
William Dunbar’s “My ladye with the mekle lippis,” is a parodic insult poem, possibly directed at Elen More or the other Black woman at the…
The copy of the King of Tars in the Auchinleck manuscript opens with a rare illustration, rare in that it’s in the manuscript at all…
Fredric Jameson’s chapter “On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act” from his The Political Unconscious returns often, and surprisingly, to the Middle Ages. As he argues…
Here is sample presentation. Note that I quickly summarize Orlemanski’s argument, provide a key quote, and then connect her work to my own research interests,…
