In the Middle

by J J Cohen The fall semester trickles to its end, and such is the perversity of the academic calendar that the time has arrived to think...

Call for Papers: Disney's Medievalisms From medieval fairs to modern films, the industries of popular culture continually revisit and...

by J J Cohen Just saw this reviewed by Laura Hodges in TMR . Here is the description from the U Penn Press website : The story of silk i...

by KARL STEEL Once you come out of your food coma, and once you've read Michael O'Rourke's review below , you may have to start ...

by J J Cohen I'm not a big fan of the stench of cooking birds . I also don't love pumpkin pie. You will think I'm being a fund...

by Michael O'Rourke MOR was kind enough to forward this book review to me. Because it touches subjects we've discussed in the pas...

by  J J Cohen [An installation in a noncomprehensive series on the history of medieval-focused blogs. I invite you to leave your ruminat...

by J J Cohen I've just posted the presentations from the recent GW MEMSI seminar on Cary Howie's Claustrophilia: The Erotics of E...

by Peter Konieczny and Sandra Alvarez From our ongoing series, a history of electronic medieval studies . Perhaps its best to begin by ...

by J J Cohen ( read Karl first ) The latest issue of Comparative Literature (61:2) has an excellent review essay by Simon Gaunt entitled...

by J J Cohen We at In the Middle love collaboration. We love Marty Shichtman . We love Laurie Finke . So we therefore want you to know th...

by KARL STEEL First! More zombies ! Second, thanks very much to our guest bloggers (and to Jeffrey's organizational moxie) for what...

by J J Cohen Maybe it was last Friday's GW MEMSI Claustrophilia seminar, but I woke up this morning knowing that my next project wil...

by Steve Muhlberger [#8 in our series of blog histories ] Blogging the Middle Ages and the whole beautiful blue world and spaces beyond ...