The problem with teaching a medieval class on race and representation has been the unrelenting negativity of nearly all of the texts we’re doing: the…
I recently agreed — breaking my great period of NO — to write a book chapter on animals and disability simply because it’s been a…
It’s usual to besmirch the Middle Ages as a time of superstition and intolerance. That charge has some merit, so long as we remember that…
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…
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…
Sometime in the early 80s, Barney Frank was suffering during one of those interminable end-of-year round-the-clock sessions when junior Members were often dragooned into presiding…
