The ballad, then, underscores the sensational, multimedia nature of the Logroño auto de fe, which laid bare a nightmarish ...

Unfortunately, most of Euripides’ work has not come down to us. Only 17 complete tragedies and one satyr play have survived.

What the war released above all was a spirit of ephemerality’ Mark Polizzotti is Head of Publications at the Metropolitan ...

H elen Cam (1885-1968), the first woman to be elected to a chair at Harvard, was a formidable English medievalist. Unusually ...

On 9 October 1771 masterpieces of Dutch art destined for Catherine the Great sank with the Vrouw Maria off the coast of ...

In 1938 the American literary critic Howard Mumford Jones published an article in The Atlantic titled ‘Patriotism – but How?’ As Europe teetered on the brink of war, Jones observed how fascist ...

Lodovico Il Moro, fourth son of Francesco Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti, was “the most perfect type of the despot of that age.” If there was towards the close of the fifteenth century a prince who ...

Wells’ Outline of History was one of the outstanding successes of the years that followed the first World War. Its success even astonished its author though few writers have possessed more abounding ...

In the context of British Imperial expansion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it would probably be true to say that its three greatest prophets were Lord Lugard, Cecil Rhodes and Edward ...

“Nottingham: a magnificent town full of improbable splendours.” Why improbable? The Anglian chief, Snot, leading the Snotenga folk up the steep escarpment of St. Mary’s Hill—Snotingaham to them—some ...