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The Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti imagined houses as living beings: when they are happy they welcome you to their ‘bosom’, the central hall; when they are badly sited they feel humiliated, ‘enjoying no dignity’ and ‘taking no pleasure’. Gendered as feminine, the building loves to ‘gaze out’ at her surrounding landscape, ‘both […]
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The medieval Mediterranean was a sea of exchange of cultures, religions, commodities, and worldviews. With a focus on monumental and panel painting, Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean probes issues of cultural transmission through a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is a product of almost ten years of research; it began as […]
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In most stories, books are cast as liberators of knowledge and agents of progress – but they can also be devices to channel and control flows of knowledge. For over two centuries, early printed farming books have held a prominent position as heroes of an ‘agricultural revolution’ in England, and more recently an ‘agricultural enlightenment’. […]
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Servant of the People By Rebecca Kingston, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and author of Plutarch’s Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England 1500-1800 (Cambridge, UK: CUP, 2022). The American Political Science Association (APSA) met last month in Montreal. It can be a daunting experience as thousands of […]
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One gloomy afternoon in November 1991 I was handed a photocopy of a news pamphlet, a printed Elizabethan booklet containing the story of a witch trial held in 1582. I’d had no idea there was anything like a “newspaper” in Elizabethan England until that moment. I’d read plays, poems, frankly impenetrable treatises about governance and […]
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In the spring of 1716, the entire French financial community was put on trial in a ritual prosecution known as the chambre de justice. Over the preceding centuries, these trials were held periodically, usually after wars, when a royal debt crisis was looming. Although they mostly were not very effective (most of the richest financiers […]
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“Never Again,” the campaign to end extreme hunger emerged out of the 2011 famine in Somalia, yet today, in Somalia, seven and a half million people are facing food shortages while over 200,000 people are experiencing a level five famine with the numbers expected to rise dramatically in the next few months. The name – […]
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Some time in the late eighteenth century, Madar Khan, a South Indian Muslim, enlisted as a sepoy—a soldier—with the British East India Company, the face of Britain’s rapidly expanding authority on the subcontinent. He was one of several hundreds of thousands of Indians who composed the Company’s armies, making them the largest forces in the […]
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