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Foster will present his new discoveries—which he is excitedly working up into a new book—regarding the relationship between Marx and Epicurus and how it…
From the blog of Jonathan Sacks at The Times of Israel
There are moments that change the world: 1439 when Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press (though the Chinese had developed it four centuries before); 1821 when Faraday invented the electric motor; or 1990 when Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web.
KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Medieval scholars from around the world will meet virtually from Monday through Saturday, May 10 to 15, for the 56th celebration of the Western Michigan University International Congress on Medieval Studies. Typically held on campus but moved to a virtual format during the COVID-19 pandemic, the event is hosted by Western's Medieval Institute and has attracted professional scholars, most with university appointments; students; independent scholars; librarians; museum curators and other medieval studies enthusiasts. Session topics this year range from historical sword fight...
Abstract This essay looks at the history of the novel, starting from the influential postwar critical insistence on the importance of the novel as a nineteenth-century genre. It notes that this tradition singularly fails to take account of the history of the novel in antiquity–for clear ideological reasons. It then explores the degree to which the texts known as the novel from antiquity, such as Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe, Petronius’s Satyricon, or Heliodorus’s Aethiopica, constitute a genre. Although there is a great deal of porousness between different forms of prose in antiquity...