This article examines the spectacular representation of confinement in early medieval English sculpture in the context of poems, sermons, and translations. By identifying a series of features that early medieval spectators would have paid special attention to, it shows that sculptors used imprisoned and fugitive figures to craft a discourse about…[Read more]

Short article examining Poul Anderson’s medieval sources.

Review of Emily V. Thornbury. Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, xi + 322 pp, 11 figures, 15 tables, £ 21.00 (pb) [hb 2014].

This essay analyzes Zorns Lemma (1962–1970), a film made by American artist Hollis Frampton (1936–1984). Noting Frampton’s use of Robert Grosseteste’s thirteenth-century treatise De luce [‘On Light’] as a key aspect of the film’s soundtrack, the essay argues that Grosseteste’s investigations of light as a medium played a key role in Frampton’s t…[Read more]