In the Middle

by J J Cohen Two weeks ago Karl catalyzed a vigorous discussion by posting on Reading Alla's Britoun Book . The topic is a rich one, and...

by J J Cohen Related to this and this , there is this . An excerpt: We mixed feel sorry for those who lack the self-confidence to be proud ...

by J J Cohen The thesis of Daniel Boyarin's Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism is simple yet breathtak...

[image pilfered from here ] by J J Cohen Clumsy post title, I know: French doesn't have a good translation for Thanksgiving . We at ITM ...

Yesterday in my Myths of Britain class I taught the segment of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain that begins with ...

Don't miss the vibrant tools discussion below. Go there first if you haven't already, and then, if you like, enjoy this long post f...

I cited some of my work on Cynocephali in this thread and felt compelled to share some more on dog-headed monsters. Does this have anything...

In the latest entry of her blog, A Don's Life , Mary Beard examines the idée reçue that Hadrian's Wall was an attempt to insulate a...

From Judson J. Emerick's review of Charles B. McClendon, The Origins of Medieval Architecture: Building in Europe, A.D. 600-900 , in The...

In a thirteenth-century Latin poem on the Wonders of Ireland, immediately before a description of a man who lived headless for 7 years and a...

(1) Arthuriana 16.4 (2006), a special issue on Saracens in Malory, guest edited by Jacqueline de Weever. I especially liked "Saracens ...

(The book is currently in production. For the time being, here is the draft of the introduction, sans footnotes. The volume will appear in M...