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…
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,…
