There are several advantages in attending Kazoo, which you might view as a kind of Comicon for medievalists. First and foremost you are p...

DAY THREE Up betimes to prepare my presentation entitled “The Gargoyles of Yerba Buena: Medievalist Architectural Innovation in San Francis...

DAY TWO This was probably the most productive day for me, due to a small epiphany I experienced at a talk given by Jonathan Cou...

DAY ONE A morning session featured a discussion of relations between the French and the papacy in the 11th century, and a presentation abo...

48TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT KALAMAZOO MICHIGAN MAY 9-12, 2013                                                    ...

  Sea is swallowed, flaming burn the heavens, Moon falls, Middle Earth burns....                               Muspilli , v53-5...

It's true I suppose that blog writing has been gradually going out of fashion. I suppose also that we are all owned in one way or anoth...

There has always been an instinct in East Asia to clone objects of Buddhist veneration for the purpose of acquiring merit -- for example ...

The surprising discovery early this year of about 3000 Buddha figures buried in a riverbed in Hebei Province will be a source of fascina...