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Upstairs in the Fogg, past the Greek pillars and pseudo-marble walls where dusty portarits and Medieval paintings hang in somber tribute to Fine Art, lies the much more hip Busch Reisinger gallery, sporting Harvard's first and very worthwhile video installation exhibit.
Boswell, a specialist in medieval history, earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1975. The former chair of Yale's history department, Boswell died last December at age 47.
The hundreds of anecdotes, jokes and limericks in the book fall into three categories; the familiar, the amusing and the downright revolting. The first group includes just about every sexual stereotype in history: the libertine Frenchman, the repressed, masochistic Englishman, the randy medieval priest and the depraved Roman aristocrat are...
Some of the practices which medieval priests would ask about in the confessional anticipate "9 1/2 Weeks." One suggested question in a handbook for priests reads, "Have you done what some women do? They take off their clothes and smear honey all over their naked bodies and then lay down...
Puttermesser, a middle-aged Jewish woman, uses magic to create a golem, a robot-like creature from medieval Jewish folklore designed to serve its creator.