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Crime and Consciousness in Modern Mexico
MATTEO CANTARELLO | Today, crime speaks a universal language...
Nov 23, 2018


Does Law Disdain Literature?
ANDREW KAU | In a 2014 interview with The Harvard Gazette Stephen Greenblatt recounted his near-miss with the practice of law...
Nov 9, 2018


Collective Enthusiasm and the Cautious Scholar: The Birmingham Qur’ān
ALBA FEDELI | In July 2015, the BBC released the news about the “‘Oldest’ Koran fragments found in Birmingham University”...
Aug 2, 2018


Seeing the Forest but Missing the Trees
NILS H. KORSVOLL | Philology and text-critical studies traditionally see manuscripts as repositories of traces and clues to discovering...
Jul 19, 2018


The Staffordshire Hoard and the Distance of the Past
SAMUEL COLLINS | Early medieval archaeology rarely makes news...
Jul 19, 2018


“Property of a gentleman”: The market of ancient manuscripts and the problem of provenance
ROBERTA MAZZA | I am a papyrologist...
Jul 5, 2018


The Painted Book: Illumination Revived
JAKUB KOGUCIUK | Study of manuscript illumination in the Renaissance appeared pronounced dead before it could bear any fruit...
May 10, 2018


The Pale Galilean: Ernest Renan, Jesus, and Modern History
WILL THEISS | In 1884, General Charles Gordon, the bumbling British imperialist who had earned his fame in China, was wasting away at...
Mar 15, 2018


One Text, One Truth?
DAVID NORTON | Luther’s 95 Theses were written, as their opening says, “out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it”
Feb 2, 2018


The Varieties of Memory: The Historiography of the German Reformation
UTE LOTZ-HEUMANN | The German Reformation has at least two vibrant historiographies that sometimes intersect
Jan 19, 2018


Unreformable Ireland? The Failure of the Reformation in Ireland
HENRY A. JEFFERIES | What makes Ireland so interesting for Reformation studies is that it stands out as the classic exception
Jan 19, 2018


When Faith Alone Is Lost
ALEC RYRIE | The philosopher Charles Taylor puts his finger on the question. “Why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in, say,
Dec 7, 2017
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