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Where were the Orcades?: Early medieval engagement with the islands at the edge of the Earth in texts and maps
Read more: Where were the Orcades?: Early medieval engagement with the islands at the edge of the Earth in texts and mapsReinterpreting the history of Scotland's northern islands.
What did Virginia Woolf really think about Holy Week and Easter? (3 of 4)
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What did Virginia Woolf really think about Holy Week and Easter? (2 of 4)
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What did Virginia Woolf really think about Holy Week and Easter? (1 of 4)
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A perfect epitome: David Randall pens a sonnet for each of his new books
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By David Randall The Concept of Conversation In Roman days the leisured noble’s speech Was conversation, sermo, where all spoke To seek out truth, with each persuading each To maintain chat by wooing phrase and joke. This style of speech…
The happiness of being sad
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Top 5 Representations of the Weather in Shakespeare’s plays
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By Sophie Chiari In Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are plagued by the dog days that overdetermine the climate of the play and turn heat into hate. Interestingly, Shakespeare’s sources all set the story in a cold winter which put forward…
Frederick Douglass and Ten Scottish Worthies
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Recent research has suggested that Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century. The former slave who became a leading intellectual and civil rights campaigner of his age, was captured on camera more times than George…
Gertrude Stein’s Transmasculinity
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By Chris Coffman The Parisian salon hosted by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas was unique among queer modernist spaces. Unlike Natalie Barney’s salon emphasizing women, femininity, and Sapphic identity or the cosmopolitan Paris of queer outcasts surveyed in ‘John’…
10 Things to Count on when Working on Literature and Mathematics
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By Nina Engelhardt 1. Contrast Mentioning ‘literature and mathematics’ in one breath often leads to raised eyebrows and reminders of the stereotypical contrast between the fields: the rigour and exactitude of mathematics and its universal truths can be seen as…
Walter Scott the “mighty minstrel” and Marmion
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Walter Scott’s poetry dominated the early years of the nineteenth century but has subsequently fallen into relative obscurity. The first scholarly edition of Marmion (1808), the second of Scott’s grand historical narrative poems, has recently been published and sets out…