In the Middle

The word will get out somehow, so I'll declare it here. In the unscripted preface to a paper I just gave at Dartmouth, I confided to my ...

I'm on my way to NH to present a paper . Here is the opening, on hills as portals to other worlds and on feasts refused. ---------- Medi...

The New York Times article on the controversy surrounding the exhibition of the Ara Pacis reminds me that I have something to be relieved a...

From the BBC, courtesy of JKW: The village of Mawai Lama in the Malaysian state of Johor is a sleepy row of wooden fronted shop-houses set b...

Here is a section from a paper I gave a while ago to the Medieval Club of New York. It's based on the Kempe chapter in my book Medieval ...

It is probably inappropriate to post on this, but then again I can invoke my fantastic Medievalist Powers of Historicization to give it a sc...

Remember the Green Children ? The poet Glyn Maxwell has written a play about them. Here's an excerpt from a review in today's New Yo...

The title of this blog entry is the working title for my next research project: an examination of how medieval England was haunted by the mu...

Here, in response to the discussion in the "Fantasies of the Aboriginal" post, is an excerpt from Medieval Identity Machines on t...

Following from yesterday's post, here is a medieval example of an unnarrated, barely glimpsed woman's story. It's taken from a s...

The seder plate is ready to be loaded with its Very Symbolic Items. Our copy of My Favorite Family Haggadah is good to go. Elijah's cup...

Police plea on macabre book find Police are trying to locate the owner of a 300-year-old ledger, bound in human skin, found in a Leeds road...

Here is that syllabus I promised for a graduate seminar I taught last autumn. My current research project pulls from these materials, so any...

A bittersweet meditation on moving into a deceased predecessor's office at Inside Higher Ed. Because I am a medievalist and because dea...

A special cluster on Movie Medievalism from Exemplaria . Favorite title: "Introduction: Getting Schmedieval."