I Drink Therefore I am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine
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Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of...
Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England
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Church rituals were a familiar feature of life throughout much of the Anglo-Saxon period. In this...
Painterly Enlightenment: The Art of Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1724-1796
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Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-1796) was an Austrian fresco painter known for his bold use of color....
Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy
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B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, and M.K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist, two...
Satan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692
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The result of a perfect storm of factors that culminated in a great moral catastrophe, the Salem...
The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination
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In The Cabaret of Plants, Mabey explores the plant species which have challenged our imaginations,...
The Early Medieval Church in Wales
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Christianity arrived in Wales with the Romans and spread rapidly in the early medieval period....
The Hellfire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies
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The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumors of their orgies,...
The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome
Ida Ostenberg, Simon Malmberg and Jonas Bjornebye
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The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the...