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On the 20th of January 2021, the Biden administration released a fact sheet detailing executive actions it would deliver within hours of inauguration. The orders addressed four interrelated crises: the COVID-19 pandemic, its economic impacts, systemic racism, and climate change. The White House framed these challenges as “converging crises” – an apt encapsulation of a […]
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What does it mean and what does it take to be a foreign language speaker in late antique Christianity? Was such a person considered a heretic? A barbarian? A Christian of equal standing? A saint or a demon? To frame this problem in more tangible terms, let’s imagine a respectable Greek-speaking churchgoer in fourth-century Constantinople. […]
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‘It’s a tense stand-off as Melvyn Bragg raps John Humphrys’, reads a 28 July 2014 Evening Standard headline. What was the cause of this dispute between two giants of British broadcasting? Lord Bragg’s show In our time featured discussions with academics on cultural, historical and scientific topics. When talking about key moments in history, there […]
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One of the most striking exhibits in the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum, London, is a ceramic figure of a brown bear. The animal is depicted wide-eyed, with a gold collar around its neck, its mouth pen and its lips curled into a menacing grin. Between its paws, the bear grasps the writhing form of a […]
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Consult any dictionary of slang and you’ll find a definition something like this: a letter sent to a man (usually in uniform) by his girlfriend, fiancée or wife announcing the end of their relationship. Urban legend adds a further twist. A Dear John doesn’t just sever an unwanted romantic connection. It announces that the sender […]
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By 1200 kingship had become the natural from of government across most of western Europe. A royal title denoted antiquity, legitimacy, and the exemplary adherence to shared norms. It conferred distinction upon the individual or family holding it and marked out as distinctive the community over which they presided. The appeal of kingship reflected – […]
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It is difficult to think clearly about freedom. The multiple strands twisted together over time to produce the modern concept result in a tangled notion. That was Myles Burnyeat’s claim, in ‘Ancient Freedoms’, a lecture he first gave in the 1990s and which is now published for the first time in Explorations in Ancient and […]
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