I hope this study of how Jews lived among Christians has suggested that many of the fundamental characteristics and experiences of convivencia can be seen…
If you were up at 9am on a Siena Monday, and decided to head out to the train station, you might have heard the latest…
Here I am again. In anticipation of Kzoo book shopping, I’ve carved out time in the last month to read through chunks of my library:…
As the translators emphasize, Abbot Suger wrote the Deeds rather than Life of Louis: this difference supposedly accounts for the absence of much of what…
Odo, an intimate advisor to Louis VII, here records the disastrous second crusade from a French perspective up to Louis’s departure from Adalia for Antioch.…
Last week, I read the Man of Law’s Tale (hereafter MLT) for the second time (I think) and taught it for the first (I should…
Where have I been? Apart from surviving the shock of the semester’s start, and suffering the siege of many writing projects, apparently all due at…
I’ve a longer post planned, but for now, I offer this, a key moment (for me) in Getting Medieval, one I marked with “a passage…
When in medieval intellectual befunkitude, I try to open myself to the unknown in the hopes that I’ll be surprised. German works might be the…
The various uses of GEWALT, which stands out because of Derrida’s commentary on Benjamin’s “Zur Kritik der Gewalt.” Most notably, it appears in the earliest…