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Sunday, April 26, 2026
Music as Distraction: Pandemic Coping from Boccaccio to TikTok
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If you think about it, pandemic music is not always about remembering. Sometimes it is about not remembering. Or at least not staring strai...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
We Don’t Talk About COVID”: Cultural Amnesia, Set to Music
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If you think about it, the 2020 pandemic gave us a rare opportunity to watch cultural amnesia in action. What was a moment of total shut...
Sunday, March 29, 2026
Poems from a Very Long Prayerbook(TM)
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After hours and hours immersed in the Very Long Prayerbook TM from the 16 th century that I’ll be speaking on at the Medieval Congress at...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Seven Times a Day: Prayer as Humane Practice
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One of the things that shows up again and again in early devotional books is instruction that feels, at first glance, almost excessive. “...
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Discovering Johannes Nider on the fly: A binding fragment from Thalbach
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Every archival journey has its moments of mystery. One of those dropped in my lap this week. Late last year, one of the Thalbach library v...
Monday, March 9, 2026
What Does the Medieval Past Sound Like? Alfred Schnittke’s Minnesang (1981)
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In our medievalism discussions this semester, we’ve often asked a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to “use” the medieval pas...
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