Consciousness is our gateway to experience: it enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to...
In the Middle Ages much like today, the vagina conjured fear and repulsion, yet it held an undeniable allure. In The Medieval Vagina, the authors explore this paradox while unearthing medieval myths, attitudes and contradictions surrounding this...