“Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt” at MAG
Why do people feel moved to damage a piece of art? This is one of the main questions which the exhibition “Striking Power: Iconoclasm in …
Marie Was Never a Nuisance
This post was originally a thread which I posted on Twitter in March 2019, in response to a meme which was being widely linked to …
No, That’s Not The Sweat of Count Dracula
There are lots of attention-grabbing items on the news these days, but few have me double-take as effectively as a throwaway bit on one of …
The Myth of Marguerite de Bressieux
This post was originally a thread which I posted on Twitter in October 2017, in response to this post on the Rejected Princesses site which …
Entering the Matrix
Novelists have no particular obligation to the past—or at least, no requirement to recreate it with any kind of fidelity. Just as the makers of …
Scattered Leaves and Stanley Slotkin
In teaching book history courses here at Geneseo, I came across what I thought was a small and relatively straightforward portfolio of antiquarian book leaves …
Manuscripts in the Curriculum
This post first appeared in Les Enluminures’ TextManuscripts blog. The first time that one of my students had the opportunity to pick up a fifteenth-century …
Publication Round-Up VII
Journal Articles “Spare No Scrap: A Piece of Binder’s Waste as Evidence for Institutional Development at the Abbey of Prémontré in the Thirteenth Century,” in …
The Sisters of Prémontré Database
I’m pleased to make available my first attempt at building an online database! “The Sisters of Prémontré: A Prosopographical Database” makes searchable (by name, role, …
Talk: Brides of Christ Conference
On July 3, I will be speaking at the “Brides of Christ: Women and Monasticism in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland” conference. This, the fifth …