In the Middle

. . . as scholars and teachers we believe we are right to call what we do “humanistic” and what we teach “the humanities.” Are these still s...

Figure 1. still image from The Wind That Shakes the Barley [Teddy O'Donovan, played by Padriac Delaney, now part of the Free State Irish...

At this most festive time of the year , the English Department of the George Washington University celebrates the looming solstice th...

Heavenfield is an erudite blog filled with interesting rumination on Anglo-Saxon days. Check out this post on Wilfrid and the British Boy . ...

Hanukkah has dwindled over the past decade. An unease arose over its Expansive Powers of Holiday Magnetism -- its penchant to draw to itself...

This past week, in the midst of sifting through the fifty times "says Orosius" occurs in the Old English translation of the Histor...

Posted on behalf of Nick Haydock. Hollywood in the Holy Land: The Fearful Symmetries of Movie Medievalism McFarland & Co., Publishers, I...

In honor of both procrastination and Eileen's Tim Spence and portable digital music players post below, I decided to try my hand--a han...

Readers of ITM likely know the litany of nationalist stereotypes that were repeated throughout the Middle Ages. G. G. Coulton laid them out...

Figure 1 . Still Life with Rob Shortridge behind the bar at Erato and Eileen Joy's rioja, or is that a barbera, or a zinfandel? . . . oh...

It's the end of the semester: classes to conclude! meetings to attend! papers to grade! exams to compose! deadlines to miss! All of us a...

An interesting conference at the University of Edinburgh, January 11-13. Keynote speakers are Juliette Dor, Steven Kruger, Sara Lipton and C...

In the not too distant past, my laptop was stolen . Our student newspaper, the GW Hatchet, re-enacted the scene of my discovering the theft ...

The song? Grendel's Mother by the Mountain Goats . Permanently residing in the soundtrack that plays all day in my head courtesy of the...

Island Love [photo at left of the Palm at the End of the Mind by author] I've been in love with the Caribbean since visiting Saint Lucia...