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Recent controversies remind us that popular perceptions can be as crucial as plinths and pedestals for propping up monuments. A perfect storm of controversy in 2016, and again in 2020, led to the dismantling, veiling, or relocating of dozens of statues of southern slaveholders and confederate generals in the United States. In Ukraine 1,320 Lenin […]
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My mother’s family comes from Dugi Otok, the outermost island in the Zadar archipelago, off the Dalmatian coast of Croatia. I was often told as a child that from the island’s western cliffs you could see Italy across the Adriatic on a clear day. I was in awe of the fact that this foreign country […]
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Few Byzantine emperors had a life as tumultuous as that of Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425). Living and ruling during the last decades of the Byzantine Empire, Manuel witnessed civil wars between the members of his own family, socio-economic problems and theological disputes. His paths crossed with many famed rulers and scholars of the age. His […]
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In the last decade, Western Europe’s two main systems of alliance – NATO and the EU – have both experienced crises that threatened their existence. From battles over economic austerity, to demands that some NATO partners increase their military spending, to the process of Brexit, the challenges confronting both alliances may seem unprecedented in their […]
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When I started to dream up my book Paper in Medieval England: from Pulp to Fictions, I wanted to find out why medieval people were interested in paper and how paper became a success story in pre-modern times. It was a project of discovery as well as deep frustration. Paper seemed to have quite a […]
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The popularity and spread of the rite of self-coronation reached its zenith with Napoleon’s imperial self-coronation in Paris in 1804. This event achieved world notoriety in large part because of the monumental painting by the court artist, Jacques-Louis David, currently on display at the Louvre. This picture, and the popular belief around the ritual of […]
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The rewriting of history to suit a current political agenda is not new. Nor is the creative representation of particular individuals or institutions only a modern phenomenon. The extraordinary serial biography of the ancient and early medieval popes known as the Liber pontificalis (Book of Pontiffs) is an example from the sixth century, composed within […]
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The current pandemic and global health and economic crisis has overshadowed an event that would normally have enjoyed a lot more discussion and attention: the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe on May 8, 2020. Yet, then as well as now it forced individuals and organizations to come to terms […]
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