Turkeys and so forth
by J J CohenI'm not a big fan of the stench of cooking birds. I also don't love pumpkin pie. You will think I'm being a fundamentalist when I tell you that vegetables do not belong in desserts. Zucchini bread and carrot cakes are listed among the abominations in Leviticus for a good reason: placed within something sweet as a repast's final course, they become matter out of place. To eat them renders one unclean. And don't even get me started on beets, the only vegetable that, because it oozes blood, is actually a

Unfinished Business: The (Sin)field of Early Modern Queer Studies
by Michael O'RourkeMOR was kind enough to forward this book review to me. Because it touches subjects we've discussed in the past at ITM, I thought I'd share. The review appears in the spring edition of Sixteenth Century Journal 40.1 (2009): 264-266. [JJC]Unfinished Business: The (Sin)field of Early Modern Queer StudiesMichael O’Rourke, Dublin.

Blogging the Middle Ages: A Brief and Personal History of In the Middle
by  J J Cohen[An installation in a noncomprehensive series on the history of medieval-focused blogs. I invite you to leave your ruminations on this history in the comments, especially if you experienced ITM's development differently. I also invite my co-blogges to leave their own accounts, or add to my own.

Claustrophilia Seminar e-archive
by J J CohenI've just posted the presentations from the recent GW MEMSI seminar on Cary Howie's Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Med

Blogging the Middle Ages: Medievalists.net
by Peter Konieczny and Sandra AlvarezFrom our ongoing series, a history of electronic medieval studies.Perhaps its best to begin by saying that Medievalists.net is not a blog, or least not a blog like the others on this list. Parts of our site are like