Some of my favorite blogs have been in a tither over this: Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of…
Originally uploaded by mivox. Earlier today, I started to write a post on the Middle English Ser Tristrem. In this version, as in several others,…
Many illustrations of the Last Judgment and Resurrection depict animals regurgitating human parts (the illustration for this post, taken from the nineteenth-century tracing of the…
“The death on the slaughter bench of history, the death which society exacts from individuals is not mere nature — it is also Reason (with…
I’ve been driven to write about carrion for the past few months because of an early thirteenth-century English forest law that goes like this: If…
I hope some of you have noticed that I’ve been away for a few days (okay: a week or more). We’re all busy, I know.…
Michel Pastoureau observes that “for medieval society, in effect, the animal that was closest to man is not the bear (despite its outward appearance and…
A few quick spurs to conversation, as that’s all I have in me right now. Spurs, that is. Get ready! You may have run across…
The title’s a quote taken from a grouchy me, last Tuesday. At a crowded birthday dinner for a friend, someone asked what I did. “I’m…
Years ago my focus was meat. I have a lot of material left over from that period that I mean to put together into something…
