I'm a student pursuing a doctoral degree in late medieval history. My main interests include but are not limited to Latin, Italian, cultural theory, educational curriculum, historiography, cognitive processes, language-theory, gender relations and THE WESTERN CANON (mwahaha); i am not particularly interesting, avant-garde or risque; My main hobbies include the exciting activities of cooking, baking, going to the gym, eating green apple-caramel lollipops, restaurant reviewing and acting as child-like and sassy as possible. I keep these entries from the years of my life - no matter how i feel about them today - available because i find it useful to revisit events i now interpret differently. My name is heather, i'm of Montreal and i was born in the nefarious, ominous year 1984.

St. Eustace

Recently, in Kaftal’s Iconography of the Saints (i don’t remember which one), a picture of a family being roasted in a hollow bull got my attention.
St. Eustace and his family were roasted in a metal bull by Diocletian. His martyrdom is apparently a frequent object of stained glass in French cathedrals. Even more interesting…
Why is [...]

Another Anti-Hero

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It may not be Nero… but i learnt a lot about anti-heros yesterday when i attended a lecture my advisor was giving for the Spring Renaissance Program at U of T.
Yesterday i had picked up an extra three hour lunch shift at work. It went well, but i REALLY could have used the [...]