The Christmas story is a violent one, at least according to the account in Matthew’s gospel:When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old...
Christian attitudes to hell seem to have changed somewhat in the last century or two. Tertullian and Aquinas both thought that one of the delights of heaven would be a ringside seat to watch the torments of the damned. By contrast, in the salons of Proust’s...
Tomorrow around 4.30pm you’ll find me running around setting up audio equipment in preparation for the first part of the IHR’s Novel Approaches: from academic history to historical fiction conference. The conference seeks to look at the intersection and...
The reputation of English wine has improved dramatically in recent years, and even some world-class wines are being produced, but in general England is not thought of as a centre of viticulture.So it’s not surprising to find that in London in 1364, at the tavern...
Hello and welcome to this week’s SPOT Newsletter. Today we’ll be looking at two seminars from our collaboration with seminar groups outside of the IHR taken from the previous academic year. We have been very fortunate to build ties with the...
The recent bank bail-out is still fresh in the public mind, as shown by the Occupy London campaign. A look at volume XII(2) of English Historical Documents reveals that bank bail-outs are nothing new. Document 62 is an article in The Economist from December 1890, in...
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