Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women and God’s Own Gentlewoman bring the real world of ...

Meant to live a life of perfect peacefulness and contemplation, in reality monks were human and fallible. How violent could ...

Collingwood and Nelson went to Nicaragua to fight ashore, the Spaniards as well as the French having decided to aid the ...

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

The First World War and its aftermath are often paired with the rise of modernism, that moral and aesthetic juggernaut that so deranged our senses. But the stirrings of modernism, and some of its ...

Robert Fergusson took his role as ‘Scotia’s bard’ seriously. He made it his business to reflect the realities of life in ...

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

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

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 ...

The history of the Crimean War, at least from the British point of view, has been written many times, with full emphasis on the scandalous waste of life in futile cavalry charges against cannon, in ...