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This article offers a new framework for approaching anthro-arboreal hybridity in Ǫrvar-Odds saga (c. 1250–1300 CE) by suggesting that the Barkman’s arborescent transformation is an active, political c...

When Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere beginning in the fifteenth century, they learned that Indigenous groups across the Caribbean and South America valued few technologies as much as the h...

"The extent to which women engage with gynecological recipes depended in large part on their socio-economic class." IMPRS researcher Leonie Böttiger presents her recent work on female patients in…

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This article stages an encounter between the late-twelfth-century Tristan narrative attributed to ‘Béroul’ and Bruno Latour’s work on the Earthbound. Through a series of new close readings of two key ...

Where does failure fit into embodied humanities research practices like cooking? This skill-share documents attempts to prepare (and enjoy) possets (hot medicinal beverages that usually include alcoho...

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This Noted document brings to scholarly attention the existence of a 1969 pirate edition of Jack Spicer’s Holy Grail. It explores archaising book production choices in the first, authorised edition of...

This article looks at how ecocritical readings of The Wanderer, The Wife’s Lament, and Exeter Book riddles can inspire an ‘ecocreative’ way of rewriting and reimagining Old English verse. My creative-...

The Knight’s Tale presents patriarchal sovereignty in the figure of Theseus, who exercises his power through the capacities of homo faber (man the tool user and craftsman). This fashioned political re...

Margery Kempe is the only fifteenth-century English woman who left an account of her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. She is constructed as an intangible heritage resource on the route she follow...

This article explores how reading the twelfth-century text of Nikephoros Basilakes’ Progymnasmata in dialogue with the notion of worldmaking prompts a new, more capacious understanding of the transfor...