For this great master of the form, eating offered a model for the sensuous consumption of her...
Literature
Children’s literature serves a significant role in nurturing the emotional and social development of young readers. Books...
It is a visionary and profound work that transcends its 19th-century origins. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate...
Whatever purpose the song served, it was clearly popular as many copies have been found. Introduction The Song...
Fuller had long felt trapped between two competing impulses. By Dr. Randall FullerHerman Melville Distinguished Professor of...
The ways in which women a century ago were claiming more autonomy. By Stephanie GortonAuthor A full...
There is a long tradition in China of associating monkeys with the mind. Introduction One summer afternoon...
Baffling objects in the sky. By Joshua Blu BuhsAuthor Albany, New York, 6 August 1874. Charles Hoy...
Knowledge is power is a quotation that has been run into the ground behind a whole host...
British land policies that vastly exacerbated peasant indebtedness were chief culprits. Introduction This article examines British writing...
The Wycliffite Bible may have been an open source project that elicited the first expression of hacker...
Ancient Stoicism aimed to be a complete philosophy encompassing ethics, physics, and logic. Introduction Stoicism may be...
Posthumously active dead people – the living or restless dead. By Dr. Kirsi KanervaDepartment of CulturesUniversity of...
For Thoreau, the world is never finished. By Dr. Antonio Casado da RochaResearch FellowIAS-Research Center for Life,...
Print culture history encompasses many stages. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction Print culture embodies all forms...
Most medieval scribes gathered together as they copied. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction A manuscript culture is...
Steampunk features anachronistic technologies. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by,...
Making sure LGBTQ+ stories are still heard. By Sara Youngblood GregoryJournalist and Writer Introduction It’s not hard...
Why were so many medieval books laden with self-deprecation? Blame genre conventions. By Katherine ChurchillPhD Candidate in...
Autochthonous functions of space also existed in the middle ages. Indeed without music no discipline can be...
The poem fed the medieval suspicion that women’s bonds were socially disruptive and dangerous to men. Introduction...
How did the Middle Ages define childhood and distinguish it from either infancy or adulthood? Introduction “Childhood,...
Richard Owen was the Victorian scientist who first named the “dinosaurs” in the 19th century. This article,...
Medieval writers and clerics condemned queer romance and gender-bending stories, but they survived. Introduction Americans have been...
Twenty-six-year old Pepys, a clerk in the office of the Exchequer, had begun the diary in 1660....
Various performances that took place in and around churches served the basic tenet of Christianity. Introduction In...
It was all about the importance of hosting, because you never knew who was the stranger coming...
4,349 book bans across 52 school districts in 23 states. U.S. school districts banned more books during...
Why are so many scholars and scientists obsessed with deciphering a bizarre, illustrated 600-year-old manuscript? By Dr....
What was considered dangerous and in need of censoring changed over time. Censorship in Imperial Rome Overview...