Erin Risch Zoutendam
@erin_zoutendam
Core Fellow @SetonHall. PhD from @DukeReligion. Researching the use of scripture in medieval & early modern mystical texts. Likes birds, cats, horses.
HT @seanmhannan for this gorgeous painting by Antonello da Messina, "Saint Jerome in His Study." (Bernhard Ridderbos has argued that it is actually a portrait of Nicholas of Cusa in the style of Jerome—intriguing!) Everyone know that a good study includes a cat, lion, & 2 birds
If you're looking to see and be seen this fall, why not do so while talking about (mystical) seeing with a warm and collegial group of scholars? Registration is open, and I will personally be there to awkwardly chat you up!
Join us this September for the 20th Biennial Conference of the @CusanusSociety! We're looking forward to welcoming an impressive crew of excellent scholars to Gettysburg, as our program makes clear. Register now at this link: ulsforms.wufoo.com/forms/q1plakk7…
Molly and I are begging everyone to read Tom Jones so that we can all talk about it together all the time. Thanks in advance for your compliance!!
I've finally finished Tom Jones (THE PERFECT SUMMER READ) and have an important note: Blifil is right up there with Humbert Humbert for literary characters whose names *perfectly* communicate their moral and interior ICK!
The Memory Palace is going to make a comeback. I can feel it
There's no such thing as "critical thinking" that doesn't happen in the substrate of just knowing things! How are you going to have any insight into a text or a work of art if you come to it with zero background information?
I like these little study desks with cubbies for your books. The one on the left is from the Capitoline Museums and the one on the right is from the Uffizi.
The reviews are in. Tom Jones is a romp!
@erin_zoutendam I decided to try Tom Jones after you recommended it during our @CatherineProj seminar. What a ROMP! Only 200/900 pages in, but pure pleasure so far. Excited to see where this history ends.