Thomas Burman is coming to speak at SLU! That's so exciting!!! My last paper on Llull and this next paper on interreligious debates that I'm writing have both been on topics DIRECTLY related to what he's coming to talk about - Christians studying Islam in Spain! I have his book, Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom RIGHT here sitting next to me ( Read more... )

Holy Shit Carlo Ginzburg is going to speak at SLU! I wish I had my copy of his "ground-breaking" book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller here so he could sign it! That would be sooo cool. (In like, a really really nerdy way.) I read it in undergrad, figured I wouldn't need to bring it to Saint Louis, and yet, this is ( Read more... )