The author of Genesis A/B, an Old English verse interpretation of the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Genesis, expands considerably upon certain aspects and details of the creation story. The elaboration most relevant to this entry is the additional details given to the creation of Adam and Eve, the Biblical first humans. The original Genesis story is sparse, limiting the narrative to the creation of the bodies of the humans: Adam…
By Faryn Thomas, Jennifer Morse, Joseph Marques, and Robert Carhuayo One of the aspects of the Psychomachia that our group found particularly interesting was the fact that the virtues and vices are all presented as women. This is an initially surprising choice, as the virtues and vices are all warriors engaging in battle, and this is obviously not a role traditionally inhabited by women. This choice isn’t merely accidental, as…
Medievalist A.W. Strouse rejects academic queer theory as another “tediously” normative tradition, writing instead in a vein of self-described “irresponsible homo-medievalism” that utilizes medieval text as a “technology of self-preservation”. In the introduction of My Gay Middle Ages, he writes: “First of all, the heroine of the Consolation is this great big fierce diva, whose name is Lady Philosophy. She’s a Lady, and she doesn’t stand for anybody’s crap. At…
A question or concern I had with Boethius, and a question I seem to have when analyzing any religious or moral text which is trying to argue a particular position, is the question of blind faith. With Boethius, as with many other texts, the reader encounters beautifully written and well thought out arguments in favor of the idea that the wicked are always punished, for example. Arguments such as this…
