While doing some philological noodling with the word “fabulous” (because what else does one do on sabbatical?), I found, in this entry in the Middle…
by KARL STEEL Hi everyone! I’m trying to trick you into reading this whole thing with this jaunty opening. My interest in Sky Burial and…
The fourteenth century reimagined for the twentieth: the war between the sexes, 2 images. EDIT “war between men and women” is language I’m getting from…
Martin Heidegger’s “Letter on Humanism” (composed 1946) was his first published work after the Nazi defeat. He arranged his emergence into postwar philosophy and rehabilitation…
This blog post is a preliminary sketch of what and when medieval Western Europe (hereafter, for simplicity’s sake, “medieval” or “medieval people”) would have known…
This series of posts is going to be about sky burial, ecomaterialism, edibility, and birds vs worms as eaters of bodies, and it’s going to…
She was so charitable and so pitous She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or…
Three brief points on Mad Max: Fury Road: Joss Whedon, I understand, has something of a reputation as a feminist, but, never having watched Buffy or Firefly or Serenity, I know…
In last night’s Chaucer class, while trying to illustrate a point about the Manciple’s Tale. I found myself in Cambridge, Trinity College R.3.3, a Canterbury Tales manuscript…
“and forth he gooth — no lenger wolde he lette — / unto the west gate of the toun, and fond / a dong carte,…
