Ryan Judkins reminds me that: during the curee, the dogs were usually fed on the innards of the deer, including the stomach, lungs (if they…
by KARL STEEL To ensure the blog stays as eclectic as possible, I’m here to talk, again, about deer carcasses, so you may want to…
For various reasons, I’m thinking right now of the last book of Aelred of Rievaulx’s On Spiritual Friendship, which I (mis?)remember as featuring Aelred and…
Now I’m just posting my own NCS paper, which you might recall appeared a little more than a month ago before the Paris medieval animals…
This week I’ll be participating in the International Medieval Society – Paris’s annual symposium, whose topic is animals. On Saturday, I’ll be presenting a paper…
Recall that towards the end of Marie’s lai, Mr. B’s wife shows up at court, only to be attacked by her lupine husband: Oiez cum…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LwE38qbylM?fs=1 You’ll remember how “Bisclavret” begins: Quant de lais faire m’entremet ne voil ubliër Bisclavret. Bisclavret a nun en Bretan, Garwalf l’apelant li Norman. Jadis le…
How to Make a Human‘s epilogue explores a handful of works willing to risk all by abandoning humanism: the tradition of the15 Signs of the…
Fascinating, impassioned, and deeply learned. Finkelstein counters the notion that imputing judicial responsibility to nonhumans and inanimate objects represents pre-Christian primitivism by demonstrating that not…
good on the logic of burial locations. not my cup of tea, though a great source for surprising medieval death facts (Richard Boyle, the suicide…
