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Reframing Rome and Italy during the early Roman expansion

What are the effects of empire-building, and how can we study them? With Making the Middle Republic, my two co-editors and I present a collection of papers emphasizing the importance of the fourth and...

Seth Bernard | 29 May 2023

No double game but a double bind for Vichy

In the many books, articles, debates and polemics about the Vichy French regime during the Second World War, one question remains curiously absent: why didn’t Vichy collaborate with Fascist Italy? Perhaps...

Karine Varley | 26 May 2023

Our Oceans are in Jeopardy! Can we trust the Rule of Law to fix it?

Several important legal events have happened to the ocean environment lately. The 29th of March 2023 was a historical day for the international rule of law to prevail. On this day, the United Nations...

Froukje Maria Platjouw, Alla Pozdnakova | 25 May 2023

The Vanished Settlers of Greenland: In Search of a Legend and Its Legacy

In Vikings: Valhalla, the drama television series created for Netflix, one of the central characters is Leif Eriksson, who comes from the outer fringes of the known world, along with other Norse Greenlanders....

Robert William Rix | 24 May 2023

The specialist register in psychiatry- finding a route that is right for you

Specialist registration with the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom is recognition of the higher specialist competencies of a doctor. Before attaining a substantive consultant post in the UK,...

Nandini Chakraborty | 24 May 2023

The Scandalous Nature of Things

From the beginning of his poem, Lucretius is decidedly unsubtle. In quick succession the audience encounters the language of pleasure, verdant flora, lusty fauna, sexual reproduction, and an erotic scene...

Michael Pope | 24 May 2023

Christianity, Philosophy, and Roman Power:Constantine, Julian and the Bishops on Exegesis and Empire

The young Augustine was repelled by the Gospels. Or so he says, at least, in a passage from the Confessions (3.5.9) in which he reflects on his former, ‘inflated pride’. The student of rhetoric in...

Lea Niccolai | 24 May 2023

An archaeological approach to … numbers??!

The question of where numbers come from is perhaps one of the last great mysteries of our time. Today, numbers are seemingly everywhere, and yet, they are nowhere to be found in nature. Ancient Greek...

Karenleigh A. Overmann | 23 May 2023

What Should We Do?

What should we do about climate change? species loss? the growing power of artificial intelligence? inequality and violence?  Individual choices underpin these grand decisions. Should...

Thomas Dietz | 23 May 2023

Medieval Music and the Human

What would an introductory guide to medieval music look like if it were based around the humans involved in music-making? It’s perhaps not surprising that medieval music history has often been written...

Frieda van der Heijden, Helen Deeming | 22 May 2023

What is International Political Economy’s Deep History?

Two frustrations prompted me to write this book. The first was with the absence of book-length analysis of the deep historical roots of the field of international political economy (IPE) in the pre-1945...

Eric Helleiner | 18 May 2023

A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy

Cambridge University Press is publishing a textbook I have co-edited with five colleagues, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy, by Findley et al. With contributions...

Cyrille Rossant | 17 May 2023