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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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An Interview with Warwick Ball, author of The Eurasian Steppe

In this interview, author and archaeologist Warwick Ball discusses his travels and research that led to his new book, The Eurasian Steppe. Can you tell us a bit about The Eurasian Steppe? The book started life many years ago as…

Helena Heald
October 7, 2021

Scythian Gold: An Extract from The Eurasian Steppe by Warwick Ball

In this exclusive extract from chapter 6 of The Eurasian Steppe, author and archaeologist Warwick Ball explores the material culture of the nomadic Scythians, a cultural group that flourished in the Eurasian Steppe in the first millennium BC. What has…

Helena Heald
September 3, 2021

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

An Interview with Warwick Ball, author of The Eurasian Steppe

Scythian Gold: An Extract from The Eurasian Steppe by Warwick Ball

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