Month: July 2019

• Consider the Anus Radish: Etymologies, Adultery, and the Defense of the Microhistory

  

  Isidore was a learned scholar and the Bishop of the Spanish city of Seville from 600-636 CE. Thousands of manuscripts containing his Etymologiae (“The Etymologies,” also called the Origines, “The Origins”) survive today; the only work to surpass it in terms of extant manuscript copies in Western Europe is the Bible (Throop 2005: xii). The sheer number of […]

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  July 13, 2019

  Art and Graphics, open access, reading, text, The State of the Field, Uncategorized