Translating Medieval Texts
Zoom PrincetonMedieval culture was a culture of translation. From science to literature and religious texts, translation was the lifeblood of intellectual exchange and development. For us moderns, medieval texts pose special challenges from technical/material, linguistic, and interpretative perspectives. What exactly are we translating when multiple manuscripts of a text exist, when critical editions have already made […]
Let Them Rest in Peace: The Sacred Burials of Frescoes, Pots, and Rooms in the House of the Frescoes at Knossos
Zoom PrincetonIn 1923, in the heart of the Minoan settlement of Knossos, in the outskirts of the immense Palace, Arthur Evans and Duncan Mackenzie unearthed the remains of a small but imposing building. The rich deposit of elaborately decorated frescoes discovered within it gave the building the name of ‘House of the Frescoes.’ Several things are […]
Medical Bondage, Mobility, and Fugitive Logic: Revisiting Harriet Tubman as an Intellectual Figure
Zoom PrincetonBuilding off the new emphasis on black women’s intellectual history, Deirdre Cooper Owens probes Harriet Tubman’s intellectual offerings via her community work via entrepreneurship, abolitionism, herbalism, and institution building. As a historian of medicine, Cooper Owens has documented the importance of Black women’s healing practices to the development of American medicine. Herbalism is one of […]
