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…
And here’s the introduction to my oyster chapter! If you’re VERY eager for 15,304 words on oysters, I’ve put the whole thing up, not on…
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…
Sae mec feede, sundhelm þeahte, Ond mec yþa wrugon eorþan getenge, feþelease; oft ic flode ongean muð ontynde. [1] [ The sea fed me; the…
