It’s typical to understand the ending of Eric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois as didactically Christian (for example). By ending with a Passion Play, Rohmer closes…
I expect you’re familiar with the story of Brother Juniper and the Pig (Latin is here, paragraphs 2-9, Italian here, and modern English translation here).…
Take a red Cock that is not too olde, and beate him to death, and when he is dead, fley him and quarter him in…
If you were up at 9am on a Siena Monday, and decided to head out to the train station, you might have heard the latest…
Italy: why no squirrels in Italy? My wife claims she saw a squirrel; I saw none. The Siena natural history museum tells me they are…
Here’s a post in the classic mode of 2007 brand Karl: a reading of an animals text, in this case, of a modern classic, namely,…
“Earlier Christian groups (including, or even especially, the Johannine one) distinguished themselves from non-Christian Jews not theologically, but only in their association of various Jewish…
I’ve been reading Ralph “Bocking’s” Life of the thirteenth-century English Bishop Richard of Chichester, edited and translated by David Jones here, seeking some context for…
I’ve been on the hunt, seeking images of the story of Nicholas and the Three Clerks. Most show–yawn–the resurrection; some show the moment before the…
Briefly, two points from medieval English Law. From Bracton (13th century), from a section on “What wreck is; and concerning great fish, that is, sturgeon…
