![]() ![]() Because I’m pretty sure I’ve just discovered where cursed-to-hell-for-the-sex Angel comes from. As I was idly browsing through an eleventh-century theologian’s autobiography, as you do, I came across a storyline that made me sit and up snigger. ![]() But it’s also hard to look back on some elements without being a little bit creeped out, one of those elements being the Angel plotline, neatly taken down in this blog post. Don’t get me wrong, I loved Buffy and it had a lot of positive aspects. Whedon is getting it in the neck at the moment – justifiably so, really – and so the more dodgy elements of his work are at the forefront of my mind right now. One of my more serious scholarly achievements this weekend was finding the source for Joss Whedon’s Angel plot. ![]() The dream of the pilgrimage of human life Torture in Hell, Detail, Flanders, circa 1380-1390īibliothèque royale de Belgique, Manuscript Cabinet, Brussels, ms. ![]()
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