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Originality and Artistic Impulse: From a Medieval Scottish Friar to Malevich’s Black Square

Is there any such thing as a new idea? Bryony Coombs discusses similarities in artistic expression, centuries apart.

September 30, 2024
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Eve Lacey celebrates her award-winning article on Halkevi Libraries

by Eve Lacey Earlier this year, we shared the exciting news that Eve Lacey won the 2024 Donald G. Davis Article Award for her article, ‘The Role of Halkevi Libraries in the Early Turkish Republic,’ published in the journal, Library &…

Edinburgh University Press
August 6, 2024

Cultural Cooperation and Intellectual Freedom in “These Anxious and Baffling Times”

By Marek Sroka Seventy-five years ago, Winston Churchill, in what was to become one of the most famous orations of the Cold War, declared that “from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has…

Teri Williams
April 8, 2021

Originality and Artistic Impulse: From a Medieval Scottish Friar to Malevich’s Black Square

Eve Lacey celebrates her award-winning article on Halkevi Libraries

Originality and Artistic Impulse: From a Medieval Scottish Friar to Malevich’s Black Square

EUP 75: Our Publishing in Ancient History & Classical Studies

What is Philosophy? What is Politics? What is Critique?

Who are the displaced?

Shakespeare Teachers Strike Back: Three strategies for engaging in politically responsive pedagogy in the age of (another) DEI backlash