This morning, the British Library tweeted that a manuscript of Henry of Huntington’s Historia Anglorum, Arundel MS 48, had just been digitized, so, rather than…
What follows is, as the title promises, the beginning of what is, by my current count, Chapter 3 of my Book2 [the next bit is…
Gelfand, Laura D., ed. Our Dogs, Our Selves: Dogs in Medieval and Early Modern Art, Literature, and Society. Art and Material Culture in Medieval and…
One of my (many!) procrastination habits is poking around in manuscripts online to see what might turn up. Recently, I’ve found the following– To start…
Sabbatical honesty, then – in the two weeks since the last post, I’ve given back revisions to articles for the Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History…
The 218-line “A Disputation Betwyx þe Body and Wormes” (hereafter Disputation) survives only in British Library, Additional 37049, a much studied mid-fifteenth-century miscellany likely produced for…
Nearly two years ago, I announced: For several years I’ve wanted to write an essay on the way that ‘mute beasts’ communicate through gesture in…
