A disappointment. Clearly the Second Edition of Salisbury’s oft-cited book witnesses to the still rising interest in animals in critical theory and social history. It’s…
My first Badiou, and it would feel as if it were my first Paul, had it not been for my fundy upbringing. This is a…
If you’ve read it, you know that the ending runs counter to the whole theme of the universal infection caused by money. Dickens gets his…
1) Point the First: saw an excellent paper (“Lost Geographies and The Awntyrs off Arthure”) by Kathleen Coyne Kelly at the MLA in the “Alliterative…
If you’re making a choice between reading this introductory stuff and watching the video, watch the video. Just watch it. You’ve no doubt seen one…
Amid a fruitless search for a Dutch fish knight1, I accidentally discovered a wolf boy, the earliest, so I later read, of Northern Europe’s historical…
I hope this study of how Jews lived among Christians has suggested that many of the fundamental characteristics and experiences of convivencia can be seen…
Medieval Norse whaling was not a romatic affair of man versus beast as Melville might have us believe. No Viking Ahabs plumbed their psychological depths…
I mostly concur with this review. If, as one of the reviewers below notes, Specters of Marx concerns methodology (or deconstruction as a whole) rather…
Through “historical anthropology” Rituals of Childhood traces the development of a rite of passage for Jewish boys, the school initiation ceremony, from its origins in…
