Nearly every year, I teach an MA course at Brooklyn College whose unofficial title might as well be “Literary Theory for High School Teachers.” Late…
F is For Failure is this post’s preferred title, but it’s already been taken, a mere couple hundred times. It’s also unfair. The film succeeds,…
by KARL STEEL While looking for a suitable illustration to help teach Geoffrey of Auxerre’s version of the Melusine story (n35 here for more), I…
Creation of Adam, quadrupeds looking on. Initial framed by Wildman and Mermaid. Guyart des Moulins, Bible historiale (Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Ms-5212 réserve, 6v. Before 1403) Medieval…
Finally, the medieval vernacular translation of the Bible by ANTICHRIST that we’ve all been awaiting. With assistance, no surprise, from the Saracens. From here. BnF fr. 6447.…
From here. Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. fr. 1/1, f. 5r. Guyart des Moulins, Bible Historiale, c. 1400-1450. For another pair of fish, less silly, see here,…
While looking for Paris, Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 0020, I found a manuscript of Jacques Bauchant’s French translation of the visions of Elizabeth of Schönau (Bibliothèque nationale de…
Picture from the Met At the end of my annus mirabilis, I published a response essay in Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture (ed.…
Above is a picture of the oldest work in the Louvre, a 9000-year-old statue of a human, made from gypsum plaster smeared over a skeleton of…
Briefly: By now we all know about the Staffordshire Hoard, and we’ve all, or nearly all, looked at the flickr set. We’ve all made our…