Yearly Archives: 2019
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In my recent Cambridge University Press book, A Renaissance of Violence, I document...
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Whatever else religious experience is, it is experience, and it should be assessed...
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What’s the big question you are trying to tackle and to what extent will Literature,...
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Why put a Native American object on the cover of a book about Jacobean politics?
The...
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In this book, Cathy Willermet and Sang-Hee Lee reflect that the “steadfast obsession with the sci...
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On 31 October, 2019, a massive fire tore through the UNESCO World Heritage site of...
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What I’ve found in teaching Milton is that an author, whom students at first think...
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Why were these 17 species such successful colonisers in contrast to most other birds?...
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