In the Middle

Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote the post below, and then upon further consideration (i.e., the strong suggestions of certain wise people ...

For the interested: a few weeks back, I posed this question : I'm troubled...because when push comes to shove, the spurned women of medi...

My Holloway lecture draws near. I think I'd be less nervous about the event if it weren't for the fact that a past lecture in this s...

Figure 1 . An exile in Afuera, the Outside [still image from Code 46 , dir. Michael Winterbottom] When a contradiction is impossible to res...

The blurb at the bottom of this post was passed along to me by the new publishers of Exemplaria. I place it here suspecting that many ITM r...

Fodder for several of our longrunning conversation here at ITM : the Museum of Natural History at Rouen in Normandy has decided that a mummi...

Thanks Bill Benzon for pointing out this article by Edward Rothstein grouching about gay wizards. I should begin by admitting that I’m not...

You may have guessed , based upon some of what has appeared here and in other places , what my favorite holiday might be. Yes,...

Below you will find my introduction to the forthcoming collection Cultural Diversity in Medieval Britain: Archipelago, Island, England . Muc...

So I was walking down 14th street today, having left Morningside Heights for a meeting with a professor downtown at NYU. I was, it must be ...

(for earlier posts on this topic, see At Avebury and Augustine, a giant's tooth, and particles of alterity . These are all part of a la...