Ali and Nino is a novel published in German in 1937 under the alias "Kurban Said," a love story between a Muslim man and a Christian woman set in Baku, Azerbaij...
"The English composer, violist, and conductor Frank Bridge (1879-1941), a student of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, was one of the first modernists in British m...
"How do historical cataclysms affect the social conditioning of young people? How do individuals born in the same period come to form an identifiable "generatio...
"British Catholic merchants in the long eighteenth century occupied an ambiguous social space. On the one hand, their religion made them marginal and suspect fi...
"Although it was never completed, Georg Buchner's drama fragment Woyzeck occupies a pivotal place in the development of modern drama: its stature and influence ...
"Robert the Monk's history of the First Crusade (1095-99), which was probably completed c. 1110, was in the nature of a medieval 'bestselle'", proving by far th...
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St Edmund, king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes (or "Vikings") in 869, was one of the pre-eminent saints of the middle ages; his cult was favoured and pa...