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Being a Greek captive in the medieval Mediterranean
Read more: Being a Greek captive in the medieval MediterraneanI would like to introduce you to two people. The first of these was called Iohannes Glafchyrno. Glafchyrno appears in the historical record...
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Mediated intimacy: Lessons for the future from lockdown creativity
by Emily Goodwin and Sarah Brophy Video calls. Collaborative docs. Memes. “Live” concerts. Vaccine selfies. Netflix. Case rate data. Digital media provided lifelines during the COVID-19 global public health crisis. Yet as everyday life became more screen-centric than ever, the…
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How to Get Banned from Teaching the Quran: Medieval Cairo Edition
by Shuaib Ally, McGill University Around the turn of the 15th century in Cairo, a hadith scholar named Salah al-Din al-Aqfahsi heard Salah al-Din al-Kalai, a scholar associated with the Sufi Shadhili order, teaching the Quran. Part of his teaching…
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Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare – Q&A with the author
by Joan Lord Hall What inspired you to research eros in Shakespeare’s work? Knowing that I had taught Shakespeare for about 40 years and had authored several guides to his play, a friend provocatively asked me “Why don’t you write…
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Roland Barthes’ Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse: Translating Again, Writing Again
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Abstraction for all? Thoughts from the author of Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity
by Jeff Wallace When you’ve written something exploratory, it can take a little while to work out what it is that you’ve done. This blog about my new book Abstraction in Modernism and Modernity: Human and Inhuman is written from…
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Beckett and Embodiment: Body, Space and Agency – Q&A with the author
by Amanda M. Dennis Tell us a bit about your book. Beckett and Embodiment interrogates the strange, disconcerting representations of the human body across Samuel Beckett’s work. Such attention to the body and the varied forms it takes—often integrated with…
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Adam Smith and Scotland in the Age of Enlightenment
by Craig Smith 2023 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith. Smith is one of the very few writers whose name is genuinely famous all over the world. He is known as the father of economics, the…
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A common language and shared understanding of family violence? Corpus approaches in support of system responses to family violence
by Tonya N. Stebbins and Cara Penry Williams In an age where women are increasingly active in the workforce and have historically high rates of engagement with education, the lack of safety many experience in their own homes is profoundly…
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Book Celebration: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay
by Mario Aquilina and Nicole B. Wallack On 29 March 2023, two of the editors of The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay, Mario Aquilina (The University of Malta) and Nicole B. Wallack (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) led a roundtable with…