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		<title>Books with Work to Do: The Manuscripts of Timbuktu</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Timbuktu’s manuscripts traveled between scholars and households, carrying lessons and family memories. Their pages reveal a culture of</p>
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		<title>Leaving Earth to Understand It: Johannes Kepler’s 17th-Century Lunar Journey in Somnium</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Perrault Brothers: Challenging the Ancients in Louis XIV’s France</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>From fairy tales to the water cycle, the Perrault brothers challenged classical authority. Their careers reveal how royal</p>
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		<title>Chaucer’s Monk Between Monastic Vows and Medieval Manhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Chaucer’s Monk wears fine clothes and prizes hunting despite his vows. Martin Laidlaw reads his portrayal and the</p>
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		<title>How &#8216;Uncle Tom’s Cabin&#8217; Became a Great American Novel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Uncle Tom’s Cabin captivated readers before the Civil War. Its changing reception reveals how an antislavery bestseller became</p>
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		<title>Beyond Ledgers: Reading Material for Medieval London Craftsfolk and Merchants</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew McIntosh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Wills made medieval merchants seem narrowly devotional, but inventories and manuscripts reveal Londoners reading literature, chronicles, practical guides,</p>
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		<title>Reading Online Feels Private. Who Can Actually See What You Read?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>You can read an argument without agreeing with it. That is part of what reading is for. Suppose</p>
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		<title>When Dickens Died: A Secret Westminster Abbey Funeral for Britain’s National Storyteller</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dickens asked for a private burial near Gad’s Hill, but a secret service in Westminster Abbey turned his</p>
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		<title>The Night of Union: Rumi’s Death and the Funeral That Crossed Religious Boundaries</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew McIntosh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When Rumi died in Konya in 1273, Muslims, Christians, and Jews reportedly joined his funeral. His followers transformed</p>
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		<title>A Roman Room Misread for Decades May Be a 1,700-Year-Old Library</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew McIntosh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Scholars held a fixed reading of a room in the Roman villa of Fuente Álamo for decades, labeling</p>
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