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…
One of the works I encountered the course of writing my dissertation is the Testamentum Porcelli (the Will of the Little Pig), a short prose…
