Vampire fiction as class allegory predates Dracula. In May 1897 Constable and Co published a limited print...
History
The turmoil of the English Civil War in the 1640s and 1650s generated political and institutional upheaval,...
The Herodian dynasty is named after Herod the Great, who was recognized as king of the Jews...
Israel was a regional superpower, but unable to retain its independence in the face of Assyrian imperialism....
A utilitarian machine with a suicidal ghost inside. J S Mill (1873) by George Frederick Watts /...
South-side portal (detail), Church of Ste. Pierre, 1115-1130, Moissac, France (photo: Simon, Creative Commons) By Dr. Shannon Pritchard...
Cloister, Fontenay Abbey, 12th century By Christine M. Bolli / 08.08.2015 PhD Candidate in Art History University of California,...
Roman religion and tolerance for others drastically began to change following the Edict of Milan. Introduction Constantinian...
Balances of power and ambitious pursuits. Introduction A triumviratus is literally a college of three men. In the ancient...
To circumscribe the Reformation solely within the sphere of theological disputation is to mask the complexity of...
Phoenician is a Canaanite language closely related to Hebrew. Introduction Very little is known about the Canaanite...
Traveling to Paris for a divorce became all the rage in the early 1920s. It was one...
Puzzling questions are the focus of the exhibition Spectacular Mysteries: Renaissance Drawings Revealed. By Tristan BravinderSocial Media...
What place does the paper book have in our increasingly all-digital present? What place does the paper...
A century ago, a three-minute call from New York City to San Francisco on a landline cost...
Long before ‘sup’ and ‘hwu’ there was ‘Hw r u ts mng?’ From “lol” to “brb,” the...
The absence of a glorification of war in China was largely due to Confucian philosophy and literature....
There were over 200 gods and goddesses worshipped throughout ancient China, but if one were to count...
Roosevelt has become the rare figure popular with both left and right. A president’s career can extend...
Study and treatment of a Renaissance altarpiece reveals new details about the artist’s working method, as well...
Some general principles for approaching the topic of knowledge transfer and science transfer. Abstract We are all...
Benjamin Franklin was one of our nation’s founding fathers and one of its most ingenious inventors. During...
The history of biology, built upon the thoroughness and insight of Aristotle and Galen, passed onto the...
An overview of the Arab-Islamic reception and development of Hellenistic science. Abstract This article is an overview...
One of the most common mediums for political art has long been poster making. One of the...
The notes and staves we see today didn’t spring fully formed from one person’s mind. Imagine a...
West Africa is a place of great diversity – in language, in writing, in the hugely varied...
The symbols used in Norse mythology had to do not only with supernatural entities but also with...
Symbols in a largely illiterate society serve the vital purpose of relaying the most important values of...
The ups and downs of a big-time writer. In a life that spanned nearly six decades, Truman...