Auteur: Johnson Eleanor Johnson

Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work’s sociopolitical heft and meani …

What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is wide …

A groundbreaking examination of ecological thought in medieval England.While the scale of today s crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies the …