In the Middle

by J J Cohen [ read of the wolf child first ] You will remember that when Cormac Keane of Edinburgh discovered my missing notebook on a...

by KARL STEEL CFP BELOW! Submit! Amid a fruitless search for a Dutch fish knight 1 , I accidentally discovered a wolf boy, the earliest, so ...

by J J Cohen Deadline approaching! The GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (MEMSI) is sponsoring a conference on " Animal...

by J J Cohen Meditation on a note I sent, and a note that stays with me still. You asked what I felt in Berlin. Although you did not kno...

by J J Cohen An unexpected pleasure of Berlin: the U-Bahn, its sprawling subterranean train system. The hotel at which the conference spea...

by J J Cohen The opening lines of Theresa Tinkle's review of Peter Travis's Disseminal Chaucer in TMR: Disseminal Chaucer raise...

by J J Cohen Despite a warm auditorium with a failing sound system, despite a protest complete with marching band that kept passing the wi...

by J J Cohen Late this afternoon I depart for the gleaming modernism that is Dulles International Airport, thence to Munich, thence to Ber...

by KARL STEEL, via Carolynn van Dyke In Hir Corages: Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts Proposed edited collection Please send queries and abstrac...

by J J Cohen When in graduate school the pressure of intense reading and intense fellow students got to be too much and I needed some soli...

by J J Cohen So I realized that I never posted my Siena paper on blogging. Here it is ... though what I actually delivered was extemporize...

Figure 1. Abandoned Mining Town (Kolsmanskop, Namibia) by EILEEN JOY First, please don't neglect Jeffrey's post below where he asks...

by J J Cohen You may have heard that the next meeting of the New Chaucer Society will (following its tradition of convening in beautiful c...

by EILEEN JOY I am for those who walk abreast with the whole earth, Who inaugurate one to inaugurate all. --Walt Whitman, "By Blue Onta...

by J J Cohen But today is that day, thanks to closet philologist Dana Milbank. Senator Alan Simpson recently remarked that "We've...