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5 things you never knew about Gregory of Tours
Read more: 5 things you never knew about Gregory of ToursDiscover 5 surprising facts about Gregory of Tours, from fishing and stargazing to fear, faith, and confronting kings in the late sixth century.
Edinburgh University Press – 75th Anniversary
by Nicola Ramsey 2024 is a milestone year for Edinburgh University Press as we celebrate 75 years of books, journals…
Yogic Yeats and Jung: Early European Receptions of Asian Meditation Manuals
by Chris Murray Should Europeans meditate? Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) said not, but William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) disagreed. To argue…
Astrophil and Stella: The Sidney-Jonson Connection
by Bob Evans In 2023, the Ben Jonson Journal celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with a special issue devoted to detailed…
Mine Games: Humanitarian Mine Action and The HALO Trust
by Angus Mitchell In January 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, undertook a trip to Angola on behalf of the International…
Lost Property at the British Museum
by Sarah Keenan It’s easy to get lost at the British Museum. The expansive central London building, set out over…
Perspectives from Beyond Scotland’s Borders: Nurturing Innovative, Global Scholarship on Scottish History and Culture for Half a Century
by Kevin James and Melissa Turner Scotland has always had a geographically expansive range of global engagements: its imprint is…
How colonial violence in Tasmania helped build scientists’ reputations and prestigious museum collections
by Jack Ashby, University of Cambridge Readers are advised this article contains the names of Aboriginal people who have died,…
Forging Late Roman Italy
by Jeroen Wijnendaele (This text incorporates my introduction for the book launch of Late Roman Italy at Hamburg’s RomanIslam centre…
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: From Uniformed Soldier to Costumed Emperor
by Brontë Hebdon Early in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon (2023), Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais see each other for the first…