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Who needs advice?
Read more: Who needs advice?Margaret Mullett investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.


Margaret Mullett investigates advice literature from Byzantine texts to modern self-help culture.

by Josephine Botting Approaching an archival collection the scale of Adrian Brunel’s is a daunting prospect. Every box contains a hotchpotch of items, which at first defy coherence: snapshots, letters, diaries, cuttings, contracts, scribblings on scraps of paper, legal summons…