As the translators emphasize, Abbot Suger wrote the Deeds rather than Life of Louis: this difference supposedly accounts for the absence of much of what…
Odo, an intimate advisor to Louis VII, here records the disastrous second crusade from a French perspective up to Louis’s departure from Adalia for Antioch.…
Bernard faced two mutually incompatible tasks: to calm the squabbling of (reformist) Cistercian and (presumptively sybaritic) Cluniacs, to maintain his good relations with Peter the…
The bulk of Geoffrey’s commentary is useful only as an example of medieval Christian exegesis, except, perhaps, for medievalists who specialize in such things: they…
Because Aelred’s treatise responds to Cicero’s treatise on friendship, I’m at a disadvantage, at least until I read the Cicero. I do understand that Aelred…
I’m of two minds with my review. Fudge’s Pets, like her Animal, is a good introduction to posthuman thinking about animals. It may be faint…
I’m deeply embarrassed to say that my own work with critical animal theory has just ignored or assumed CAT’s debts to feminism. I’d be more…
“When philosophy conceives the essence of being as Logos, it is already the Logos of domination–commanding, mastering, directing reason, to which man and nature are…
Several months ago, visiting family, someone mentioned that he had just returned from a sermon on Ezekiel 16. We asked, “what did the pastor say?”…
From an interview with Alva Noë, author of Our of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of…
