This blog post is a preliminary sketch of what and when medieval Western Europe (hereafter, for simplicity’s sake, “medieval” or “medieval people”) would have known…
This series of posts is going to be about sky burial, ecomaterialism, edibility, and birds vs worms as eaters of bodies, and it’s going to…
She was so charitable and so pitous She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or…
Three brief points on Mad Max: Fury Road: Joss Whedon, I understand, has something of a reputation as a feminist, but, never having watched Buffy or Firefly or Serenity, I know…
In last night’s Chaucer class, while trying to illustrate a point about the Manciple’s Tale. I found myself in Cambridge, Trinity College R.3.3, a Canterbury Tales manuscript…
“and forth he gooth — no lenger wolde he lette — / unto the west gate of the toun, and fond / a dong carte,…
If you teach Chaucer, you’re likely more than familiar with this bit from the Nun’s Priest’s Tale: Wommennes conseils been ful ofte colde; Wommannes counseil…
PRIORESS’S TALE in 40 minutes: focusing on cursed folk of Herod “al new”: theme – youth, time, and repetition. — Karl Steel (@KarlSteel) April 20,…
From Attendance List for a Funeral (in German, Lebensläufe, 1962; trans in 1966, McGraw Hill; retranslated as Case Histories for Portico in Holmes & Meier, 1988). And here’s the context for the…
Giving a talk at Cornell this Thursday! The Bare Life of (Medieval) Oysters,” March 12, 4:30, Goldwin Smith Hall 142 By some miracle of diligence, I…
