He was the author of the Shāhnāmeh (Epic of Kings), the national epic of the Persian-speaking world....
Literature
A number of highly educated citizens could speak and read both Greek and Latin. Introduction The Roman...
Shakespeare drew on earlier depictions of Richard III and other ruthless rulers in order to create his...
Written down in the mid-17th century BCE, the Atrahasis can be dated to the reign of the...
The myth, in time, became the reality. Introduction Originality in literary compositions in the ancient world did...
In the manuscript, each of Khufu’s sons speaks in turn, telling their own tale for their father’s...
Examining what made these cheap, sensational, highly illustrated stories so popular with the Victorian public. By Judith...
A Christmas Carol isn’t the only spine-chilling Christmas ghost story from the pen of Charles Dickens. Introduction...
Young Goodman Brown is one of the scariest stories in American literature. Halloween is a great time...
The Shelleys, Byron, Polidori, and the birth of a timeless tale. The story of how Frankenstein was...
He was refined, very famous, and eccentric. Near the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Englishwoman...
A disheveled poet crafted verse of exquisite order. Thanks to the popular 1994 movie Four Weddings and a Funeral, thousands...
From public notes and broadsides to catchpennies and printed songs, examining the variety of street literature which...
How a 17th-century nun wrote poetry, dramas, and comedies that took on the inequities and double standards...
Exploring the importance of his first dramatic work and how in it can be seen the themes...
The pervading strength and influence of Christianity becomes apparent in the abundance of religious poetry created during...
In the year 1984, there was self-congratulatory coverage that the dystopia of the novel had not been...
She was a great observer of everyday life. Virginia Woolf, that great lover of language, would surely...
Walt Whitman’s influence on the creative output of 20th-century Russia — particularly in the years surrounding the...
All kinds of fantasies could be found in this land at the edge of earth. Introduction Herodotus (484...
Persian gained prominence as a literary language and a lingua franca—a common cultural language—about a thousand years...
A literary alternative to the murderous, supersessionist versions of the story that animates the site. Given the...
Although a saint, a bishop, and an important figure in a turbulent age, Sidonius is remembered particularly...
Examining the cultural heritage of Early Modern Europe and its influence in contemporary thought. By Angel Solis,...
In short, the new fragment reveals a vision of humanity as a process of maturation that unfolds...
From ‘Six studies of a cat’ by Thomas Gainsborough, 1763–70 The poet Christopher Smart — also known...
In 1980, 60 percent of 12th graders said they read a book, newspaper or magazine every day...
Hal Lindsey and C. C. Carlson’s The Late Great Planet Earth introduced millions of readers worldwide to end-times prophecy....
Books had the practical aim of helping children to learn to read, count, and understand the world...
A discussion of Avicenna’s 11th-century points of view on rabies and compare them with modern medical knowledge....