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The rapid collapse in available research funding is one crisis in the humanities we aren’t talking enough about, Asheesh Kapur Siddique writes. Since James Sweet’s column chastising historians for “presentism” appeared in the American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History magazine last August, the discipline has been engaged in a new round of soul-searching conversations about its purpose. These conversations have centered around two concerning developments.
Blood eagle, the famed medieval torture said to have been carried out by Vikings, would transform humans into birds by pulling out the ribs of the victim. Read more here.
Brantley, a scholar of medieval reading cultures as reflected in manuscripts, illuminates the connection between material culture and devotional practices.