From the sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt. by KARL STEEL Here’s a macaronic, presumably late 15th-century poem from Peniarth MS 356b, which I ran across yesterday in…
by KARL STEEL While looking for a suitable illustration to help teach Geoffrey of Auxerre’s version of the Melusine story (n35 here for more), I…
Amid a fruitless search for a Dutch fish knight1, I accidentally discovered a wolf boy, the earliest, so I later read, of Northern Europe’s historical…
One of the books I picked up at Kzoo was an anthology of hagiography and miracles by Aelred of Rivaulx, The Lives of Northern Saints.…
A few months back, I heard Peter Travis give a talk, “Aesop’s Animots,” on a fable in which Aesop feeds a group of philosophers ox…
