Not really decadent enough for my tastes, though the ontological horror at the end is almost enough of a pay off. I can imagine folks…
Recall that towards the end of Marie’s lai, Mr. B’s wife shows up at court, only to be attacked by her lupine husband: Oiez cum…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LwE38qbylM?fs=1 You’ll remember how “Bisclavret” begins: Quant de lais faire m’entremet ne voil ubliër Bisclavret. Bisclavret a nun en Bretan, Garwalf l’apelant li Norman. Jadis le…
How to Make a Human‘s epilogue explores a handful of works willing to risk all by abandoning humanism: the tradition of the15 Signs of the…
Fascinating, impassioned, and deeply learned. Finkelstein counters the notion that imputing judicial responsibility to nonhumans and inanimate objects represents pre-Christian primitivism by demonstrating that not…
good on the logic of burial locations. not my cup of tea, though a great source for surprising medieval death facts (Richard Boyle, the suicide…
Read this because Eugene Thacker uses some of it to good effect in In the Dust of This Planet. Odd to come at this after…
For obvious reasons, Eric Berkowitz’s Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire has been getting a lot of attention on the Internets. For…
If you, probable medievalist, are not at this very moment publishing amazing books (seriously! AVMEO!) and joining the manic symposium of Kalamazoo, and–so long as I’m…
UPDATE: And let me introduce you to a blog all about medieval robots. Last weekend, I had my own April madness (in my case, more…
