Harrison Bergeron is Black. I don’t mean that the story says he is, explicitly. But it doesn’t say he’s white either. All we know about…
The new Emma film, by Autumn de Wilde, is notable for its two butts. As the first is Mr. Knightley’s, and the second Emma’s, we…
Taught The Book of Margery Kempe again, this time for my MA version of my Irrational Animals course. Perhaps the chief surprise in my fourth? fifth? time…
Last post for my Intro to Medieval Studies class, and several days late at that. For a record of part of the seminar’s conversation, see…
William of Auvergne (Bishop of Paris, 1228 to his death in 1249) was a key figure in Christianizing material flowing into Latin Christian theological philosophy…
“You have turned us into great lovers of death”: Animals, Freedom, and Aristotle’s Book of the Apple
According to its 1968 translation, the earliest surviving version of the pseudo-Aristotelian Liber de Pomo is Arabic (by the 10th century, the Kitab al-Tuffahah). It…
Brother Hermann’s Life of the Countess Yolanda of Vianden [Bruder Hermanns Leben der Gräfin Iolande von Vianden] concerns the daughter of Henry I of Vianden…
This evening, I’m part of a pre-performance conversation for a play called Twelve Angry Animals, written by Reginald Rose. The talk’s at 6pm, and the…
I’m sure this topic has been covered thoroughly often; and now I’m doing it too, less thoroughly. The translation of the History of the Kings of…
What you’re about to hear is an attempt to work out what is shaping up to be my third book. My first dealt with systematic…
