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.

Notes from “Sixty Years of Wrestling with the Dead Sea Scrolls” - A Lecture by Dr. Geza Vermes

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Stories of accidental finds that overturn our historical conceptions are bound to pique my interest - i’m a late medievalist/early Renaissance scholar after all… and have frequent daydreams of accidentally uncovering in a forgotten box a copy of one of Aristotle’s lost works a la Name of the Rose on a [...]