“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…
Not an uncommon story: I was raised Christian, and woke up one day in my teens to discover myself an atheist. Since then, I’ve been…
ITM fans, a research bleg: you’re familiar with the medieval commonplace that the bipedal human form is both evidence of human reason and a reminder…
You may be familiar with the ending of the romance of Bevis of Hampton, which sees the–SPOILER ALERT! IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE…
As a lingering flu drags me through the weekend, I offer you a brief story, which involves some ongoing themes of ITM: animals; disability; and…
The sixth-century Grammarian Priscian defined “vox” as “aerem tenuissimum ictum vel suum sensibile aurium” (air very subtly struck or its sensible effect on the ears),…
Despite Bell’s claims not to be writing an academic book, this anthology is a work of astonishing erudition, at least to this scholar, whose language…
