Here’s the frontispiece (if that’s the word) to one of Wynken de Worde’s printings of Lydgate’s Horse Goose and Sheep. You’ll note that it doesn’t…
Today we considered a little-studied genre that comprises animal complaint poetry and animal testaments. Our texts were the late antiqueTestamentum Porcelli, two Middle English works,…
by KARL STEEL The second edition (and perhaps the first?) of Caxton’s 1477 printing of Lydgate’s “Horse Goose and Sheep” has a couple surprise endings:…
Bruce Nauman, Some Illusions: Videos and Drawings by KARL STEEL This morning, I got a bug in my ear to look into Nick Land again.…
Our bit of animal news today is the recent, horrific report about factory-farmed pigs being fed the ground up corpses of piglets. One farmer’s response to this…
We used the Parkinson Edition of the Fables. We started by remarking on the proliferation of animal studies by looking briefly at this round up of articles…
From the sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt. by KARL STEEL Here’s a macaronic, presumably late 15th-century poem from Peniarth MS 356b, which I ran across yesterday in…
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…
The IMDb trivia page for La Bête humaine astounds with its perfect triviality. Here’s what you learn, and you’ll be satisfied with what you get if…
A sequence of thoughts: one of the main problems with meat-eating is that the thing with the meat gives us its meat unwillingly one solution…
