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…
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…
This is the conclusion of the oyster chapter I am working on for Book 2. I haven’t shared the opening pages with you, but I…
The second book of Ranulf Higden’s Polychronicon opens by considering the problem of “þe ordre of þe story.” To illustrate the principle of good structure,…
This week in oyster thinking, a chunk of a chapter for Book2. In Descartes, Plato, Boethius, Ficino, in the whole of this tradition, the oyster…
It is not uncommonly said that habitats generated by internal combustion engines and electronics lack the crowds of animals common to what are often called…
by KARL STEEL As part of the process of assembling, expanding, and (re)writing the material for Book 2, I’ve returned to the problem of “feral…
Hi gang! Years back, I submitted a Frankenstein’s monster of a couple conference papers for a collection to be called Fragments toward a History of a Vanishing…
Cross-posted to In the Middle: comment there or at the fb. Here’s a draft of my paper for the New Chaucer Society, which I’ll be…
