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Intellectual and Religious History
A Bridge Between
Katharine Massam discusses the Benedictine women who worked at New Norcia.
A Common Humanity
Raimond Gaita asserts that our conception of humanity cannot be based upon the empty language of individual rights…
On Plato’s Timaeus
Until the Renaissance, the work of Calcidius offered the medieval West almost the only direct access to Plato’s…
Crusoe and His Consequences
300 years after it was first published, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe remains hugely influential and hotly debated. Since its…
Radical conduct: politics, sociability and equality in London 1789-1815
While the French Revolution drew immense attention to French radicals and their ideas, London also played host to…
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.
The Clergy in the Medieval World
Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played…
Empire and Aftermath
Clifford Ando re-frames the issue of beginnings and endings by reexamining “decline and fall” in the works of…
Ancient States and Infrastructural Power
Clifford Ando discusses how early states built their territorial, legal, and political powers before they had the capacity to…
The Baptized Muse: Early Christian poetry as cultural authority
With the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire increasing numbers of educated people converted to this new…
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