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[caption id="attachment_871" align="alignright" width="300"] Source: WikiCommons; picture: fir002 (flagstaffotos.com.au); licence: CC BY-SA[/caption]Every now and then I contemplate the idea to do this blog in English. My native language is German, but English was my first academic language, and I started to give academic papers and to publish in German relatively late in my academic career. Sometimes I feel a bit undecided which language I should publish in, and in practice it mainly depends on the subject matter. Canon law - English, kinship - German, coats of arms - German, hermaphrodites - mixed (no pun intended). For the time being, I will stick with the German language for this blog, but I happen to have written an English-language post on medieval hermaphrodites for a blog I greatly like, the multilingual http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/, and for what it is worth, here's the link to it: http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/?p=6596&#160;