A record of an inexpert surprise. The 1275 English Statute of the Jewry vainly offered England’s Jews a new opportunity. I quote from the 1810 translation…
Back in America! If you read Minima Moralia before watching Captain America Winter Soldier Word Word on the flight, an essay drafts itself — Karl…
Cross posted to In the Middle, where you can comment; or find us on Facebook. Because the field’s so crowded, I’m reluctant to call the “Disputisoun…
Had what I’m sure is a genius idea about the origins of modern racism in medieval chivalric ideology that I’m bound to blog on soon.…
F is For Failure is this post’s preferred title, but it’s already been taken, a mere couple hundred times. It’s also unfair. The film succeeds,…
Tony Lewis from Whitney Biennial by KARL STEEL What the title says. Over the past couple days, I’ve been reading David Nirenberg’s forthcoming Neighboring Faiths: Christianity,…
by KARL STEEL When I teach the Prioress’s Tale, as I did twice last semester, I have typically liked asking the students “who kills the…
found this via Margaret Aston. Lollards and Reformers: Images and Literacy in Late Medieval Religion (Hambledon Press, 1984), 110, who summarizes some of this passage like…
If you’ve read it, you know that the ending runs counter to the whole theme of the universal infection caused by money. Dickens gets his…
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…
