Argues that hunting was a game to the aristocracy, that that game presented a nostalgic vision of society as a feudal hierarchy, and that the meaning of the game changed moving into the fifteenth century due to pressure from the gentry... more
The Book of the Duchess demonstrates the co-existence of anthropocentrism and animal agency as it critiques John of Gaunt's excessive grief for his lost wife.
Discusses the phenomenon of medieval deer kept as pets based on legal and literary evidence. Argues that deer are particularly useful for examining human-animal boundaries in medieval culture.... more
Abstract Simplistic by today's standards, the graphical adventure genre has been overlooked in favor of the vast narratives unfolding across more recent three-dimensional virtual worlds and the complex social relationships within... more
This essay applies a digital humanities methodology to the study of digital media by framing software history as a problem of big data and textual criticism. While many scholars have already identified source code as an important site for... more