2019

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27
Dec
2019

Violence, past and present

In my recent Cambridge University Press book, A Renaissance of Violence, I document a frightening rise in civil violence in the Italian city of Bologna in the seventeenth century. I show how what began...
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20
Dec
2019

Who’s Afraid of Religious Experience?

Whatever else religious experience is, it is experience, and it should be assessed accordingly. It is not a belief, a theory, or a creed. Instead, it is a kind of awareness that attracts one’s attention,...
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20
Dec
2019

Literature, Spoken Language and Speaking Skills in...

What’s the big question you are trying to tackle and to what extent will Literature, Spoken Language and Speaking Skills lead to new avenues of enquiry? I am interested in how we can best understand...
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16
Dec
2019

Cannibals: When England Became Imperial

Why put a Native American object on the cover of a book about Jacobean politics? The image that appears on the cover of The Making of an Imperial Polity is a headdress from Guiana (now Guyana), a region...
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16
Dec
2019

Make Strange Familiar Evidence

In this book, Cathy Willermet and Sang-Hee Lee reflect that the “steadfast obsession with the scientific approach that characterized biological anthropology, like no other subfield in American anth...
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16
Dec
2019

Shuri Castle and Controversial Heritage in Japan

On 31 October, 2019, a massive fire tore through the UNESCO World Heritage site of Shuri Castle in Okinawa, sparking a global reaction and comparisons with the devastating fire at Notre Dame, another World...
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13
Dec
2019

Milton and the Burden of Freedom

What I’ve found in teaching Milton is that an author, whom students at first think of as inaccessible, because his poems are full of Biblical and classical references, familiar to his initial readers...
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13
Dec
2019

Barn Owls: Evolution and Ecology – Why has...

Why were these 17 species such successful colonisers in contrast to most other birds? Most cosmopolitan birds exploit water environments and because there is water everywhere, with continents surrounded...
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