Medieval A-musings
Medieval A-Musings #2
Money need not be metallic! Spice did serve as a form of money, from the 10th to the 14th century. It’s easy to imagine that pepper was bartered (traded for goods without following a set…
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Events
“Eclipses, Snakes, & the Microcosm in the Animal Epistle of the Iḫwān al-Ṣafāʾ”
On Thursday, October 12, 2023, the newest Medieval Studies faculty member, Dr. Bligh Somma from the Philosophy Department, delivered a lecture on the role snakes, eclipses, and a philosophical discussion of the microcosm had to…
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Medieval A-musings
Medieval A-musings #1
Pangur Bán (sometimes also known as “The Scholar and His Cat” or “The Monk and His Cat”) is an anonymously-written Old Irish poem from the ninth century. It is from the perspective of a monk hard…
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