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Commemorating Augustus
Tom Stevenson reviews a collection of papers delivered at the Commemorating Augustus conference held in Leeds on 19…
University of Queensland
The History of Inebriation and Reason from Plato to the Latin Middle Ages
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides discusses the undetected but pervasive dichotomy between spiritual inebriation and physical drunkenness from antiquity to the…
Macquarie University
In the Footsteps of Flora Tristan
Máire Cross discusses Jules Puech’s work on feminist and socialist Flora Tristan. Beginning with an examination of newly…
Newcastle University
National indifference and the return of Alsace to France
Alison Carrol examines French policies to reintegrate the recovered region of Alsace into France after the First World…
Brunel University
Exile, Imprisonment, or Death
Julian Swann discusses the ‘politics of disgrace’ in Ancien Régime France, which led elite subjects to submit to imprisonment or…
Birkbeck, University of London
1917: War, Peace, and Revolution
1917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First…
London School of Economics
Clergy in English minsters c.800-c.1100
Julia Barrow discusses the late Anglo-Saxon clergy and in particular at the question of royal patronage of churches.
University of Leeds
Danish Ferocity and Abandoned Monasteries: the Twelfth-century View
Julia Barrow explains why twelfth-century authors found it so important to invent stories of Viking brutality towards monks…
University of Leeds
The Clergy in the Medieval World
Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played…
University of Leeds
Empire and Aftermath
Clifford Ando re-frames the issue of beginnings and endings by reexamining “decline and fall” in the works of…
University of Chicago