Wednesday, December 05, 2007

A Special Weird Medieval Treat

Jennifer Lynn Jordan at Per Omnia Saecula offers a special treat in addition to Weird Medieval Animal Monday: Weird Medieval Tribe Tuesday! Her first tribe is the Blemmyai or Sternophthalmoi.

I wonder if Scott Eric Kaufman is from this tribal ethnicity ... or does the face placement mean that they are not technically Acephalous?

3 comments:

  1. Scott, have you seen this essay about Lewis' Narnia Chronicles?

    http://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=20-10-022-f

    Curious to see what you think.

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  2. I know that previous comment looks a little like spam, but it's not. I thought you might be particularly interested because it deals with medieval astronomy/astrology.

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  3. I'll look at it soon. I'm giving the keynote address at the Aereopagus Lectures at Florida Christian College in a couple of months, and my big speech is on the resonance of Christian myth outside/on the periphery of Christian culture, so I need to start thinking deeply about those issues.

    My other address, for those who care, is about the Hero Christ (the Dream of the Rood warrior-Christ) in medieval literature.

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