In the Middle

Underdog saves the day by J J Cohen I've written here before about the Code of Courtesy included in each syllabus I create (see al...

the FB conversation by MARTIN FOYS In some kind of invented ideality, we'd all be friends. If we could all be friends of Facebook...

by KARL STEEL I hope this study of how Jews lived among Christians has suggested that many of the fundamental characteristics and experience...

by J J Cohen I'm back from Maine. I wasn't gone long -- less than a week, just enough time to visit three sisters and celebrate mo...

I stole this JJ picture from his blog. by J J Cohen First, hearty congratulations to Jonathan Jarrett, author of A Corner of Tenth-Cent...

(posted on behalf of Larissa Tracy) Castration Volume — Call for Papers This is a call for submissions for a collected volume on castra...

by J J Cohen Here's my blurb for Tory Vandeventer Pearman's forthcoming book Women and Disability in Medieval Literature . Look fo...

(reprinted from here ) As the executive committee of MEARCSTAPA, an organization with more than fifty members, focused on the study of ...

Figure 1. detail from Hieronymous Bosch, "Removing the Stone of Madness" (1490) by EILEEN JOY The BABEL Working Group and postmed...

by KARL STEEL It's typical to understand the ending of Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois as didactically Christian ( for example )...

by J J Cohen OK, that was one of my patented nonsense aphorisms , but this post is meant to direct you to something smart: a short piece o...

by J J Cohen Someone asked me last night what I do to relax, and instead of the thousand smart ass remarks that came to mind (mock; transl...

by J J Cohen Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Periods An interdisciplinary conference sponso...

by KARL STEEL I expect you're familiar with the story of Brother Juniper and the Pig ( Latin is here, paragraphs 2-9, Italian here, an...

by EILEEN JOY I am proud to announce that the third entry in The Heroic Age 's "babelisms" column [Issue 13] is the essay ...