Micah Goodrich
Medieval Body: Mouth
The image on the right is a hellmouth. A demon stirs the cauldron of living creatures into the mouth of the devil himself. Replete with...
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Micah Goodrich
- Oct 21, 2022
- 5 min
Medieval Body: Blood
In this chilling image from a fourteenth-century manuscript of The Vision of Saint Bernard, a bloodied Christ hangs and drips as he is...
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Micah Goodrich
- Oct 15, 2022
- 4 min
Medieval Body: Heart
When did the heart get the shape ♥ that we now use in doodles, cards, and emojis? What was once illustrated like an apple or a pear (see...
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Micah Goodrich
- Oct 6, 2022
- 4 min
Medieval Body: Bone
When we consider bone in the Middle Ages, we are met with our most enduring image of a personified Death. Long before the grim reaper,...
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Micah Goodrich
- Sep 29, 2022
- 5 min
Medieval Body: Skin
My skin has been rapidly moving between hot, cold, clammy, and dry this week. I have finally contracted COVID-19, despite my best...
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Micah Goodrich
- Sep 20, 2022
- 3 min
Medieval Body: Senses
As I write this post an hour before lunch, my hunger makes itself known. The growls of my stomach reach my ears and my hunger is...
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Micah Goodrich
- Oct 23, 2020
- 5 min
Apocalypse Pedagogy
When the reality of the pandemic first hit early in 2020, I was teaching a course on Chaucerian adaptation at one of UConn’s branch...
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Micah Goodrich
- Apr 18, 2017
- 5 min
Why Do We Continue to Normalize 'Imposter Syndrome'?
Originally published on my former blog on April 18, 2017 "If you do not feel like an imposter in graduate school, you probably are one."...
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Micah Goodrich
- Apr 4, 2017
- 4 min
The Myth of Productivity
Originally published on my former blog on April 4, 2017 My dissertation is about images of production and its byproducts in Middle...
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