In the Middle

Won't be posting for a while.

"Few academic journals can pull off two articles about farting in one issue, but Exemplaria does it with panache." So writes Bet...

The uncanny intersection of these two declarations, it seems to me, are at the heart of the "problem" of the Green Children : this...

Inspired by my brother, who took Latin with me in high school, I celebrate the Ides by eating Caesar salad and drinking an Orange Julius . R...

Here, as an early Saint Patrick's day post, is a story I'm working on from William of Newburgh's History of English Affairs . I...

Through the magic of Netflix I am once again seeing some films in which the animals do not talk, crack jokes, or sing. One that is relevant ...

I am almost finished with the draft of the afterword for Reality, Television and the Middle Ages . Reading through the essays collected in ...

The Un-Retiring I link to this story because last week I was elected the next chair of my department -- though not, like Dr. X, for life.

Courtesy of Karl : LONDON (AFP) - The discovery of a Turkish family that walks on all fours could aid research into the evolution of humans....

Because the very basic idea that history lives, that even distant and relatively unexplored times and places are relevant to twentieth-centu...

Astute readers of this blog will know that lake monsters had their brief thread of discussion here (search "Nessie" and you will l...

Although I reviewed this book quite a while ago, I found myself returning to it in thinking about medieval intermarriage and the disappearan...

and mawkish and schmaltzy and any other adjective for "overly sentimental" that you'd care to hurl at me from your thesaurus. ...

Bruce Holsinger, The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory The Premodern Condition identifies and explains a surprising...

Sharon Kinoshita, Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature In Medieval Boundaries , Sharon Kinoshita examines the...