The author rises from the dead to bring literature back to life, especially medieval literature. Rejoice! I say it again, rejoice! … Read the post death of the author defeated: Easter drama of imagination
In medieval Easter plays and resurrection poems, harrowing of Hell starts with repentance. Then Jesus frees captive souls and renews the earth. … Read the post Christian hope for release from Hell
Apollonius of Tyana rightly believed that eunuchs can passionately love women, but wrongly believed that they must forever suffer lovesickness. … Read the post Apollonius of Tyana on eunuchs’ passion
In the Carmina Burana‘s Christmas play, an angel and a devil compete to persuade shepherds about a virgin mother and baby in a manger. Angelic singing wins! … Read the post shepherds, angel, and devil converse about Jesus’s birth
Valerius Maximus’s sacrificial father & repentant, parricidal son suggests a Jewish recasting of Isaac’s binding into a story like the Prodigal Son parable. … Read the post Valerius Maximus on a sacrificial father and his repentant son