TIDE (Travel, Transculturality and Identity in England, c. 1500-1700)
Travel, Transculturality and Identity in England is a project funded by the ERC (European Research Council), exploring issues relating to strangers, travellers, migrants and so on. The website is an open-access resource consisting (at present) of some 40 essays contributed by Nandini Das, João Vicente Melo, Haig Smith, and Lauren Working based on keywords, such […]
The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes
Kudos to Andrew Kahn, Jamelle Bouie and Tim Jones for this graphic depiction of 20,528 voyages over 315 years, transporting some 12,500,000 Africans out of Africa and into slavery in the Americas. Read the accompanying article here: The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes It’s not a new thing – it dates from 2015 – […]
Blog round-up
First off, I should say I was in the middle of writing a blog post on a lecture on ecstasy (the emotion, rather than the drug, though the latter did get a couple of mentions!) that I’d been to in London when there was a bereavement in the family and everything got put on hold […]
Medieval Manuscripts: the Crude and the Macabre
I am working on a couple of substantial pieces, which I’ll post in due course. Here are a couple of tidbits in the meantime… Bored to tears. (Leodegar of Poitiers; c. 1200.) pic.twitter.com/6wEYhB1Bkh — Euan McCartney (@euanmccartney) February 10, 2015 Sawly missed. (Lyon, Bibl. mun., ms. 0177; c. 1460.) #morbidmonday pic.twitter.com/MHYCdRptdG — Euan McCartney (@euanmccartney) […]
Don’t say “Dark Ages”…
…not unless you want to upset medievalists! I’m speaking from experience here. It’s not that I actually want to call them the Dark Ages, but I ventured to suggest in the LinkedIn Medieval and Renaissance Studies group that it was understandable that people used the term: these were “Dark Ages” if you think it’s a […]
Discourses of Suffering on Facebook
While I post all the really serious stuff right here on the blog, there are quite a lot of things I don’t feel quite fit here but make for a good post on Facebook. If you don’t already, check Discourses of Suffering on Facebook for tidbits and fun stuff!
Conference Podcast: Pain, Piety and Ageing: Sacred Suffering in Early Modern Portraits of Old Women
Dr. Erin Campbell gives a paper at Pain and Old Age: Three Centuries of Suffering in Silence?, a conference held by the Birkbeck Pain Project and Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities on October 27, 2012. Here’s the link. To listen directly to the podcast, click here. a
EEBO TCP Conference, 2013 (Oxford)
At the time of writing I am sitting in the back row of a lecture room in Oxford at a conference of the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO TCP). Follow on Twitter: #eebotcp. The Text Creation Partnership is a text-searchable database developed from the Early English Books Online database, making it possible […]
Interdisciplinary Programme on Pain and Suffering
There’s an interesting project on pain and suffering here. A working group from diverse academic backgrounds – sociology, philosophy, narrative medicine, psychology, pain research, neuroscience, ethics, history, literature and linguistics – is conducting research into the phenomenon of suffering from a wide range of perspectives.
The history of emotions
There’s a good blog on the history of emotions here. It contains an interesting review of Javier Moscoso, Pain: A Cultural History, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), a work which I had not previously come across.