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.

Fact vs. Fiction: History-writing before printing

Is it a coincidence that people first started REALLY arguing about whether it was appropriate to compose speeches for historical characters even though they were manifestly not what was said but rather a rhetorical composition by the history-writer around the time of the printing press? The extent to which such creative writing was tolerated appears [...]

The non-productive mania continues

I’ve re-established my twitter account. I can’t cope without status updates. I’ve also started another account (this time in the Lambda world) at Ikariam.org.
My big plans for this long week-end include: more room cleaning, laundry, writing a letter to El Al to complain about the horrible experience flying from Newark to Tel-Aviv, writing a letter [...]