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...
In my first post on the topic of a history of historical fiction I asked where should such a history begin? I thought perhaps a definition of the term historical fiction? While useful such definitions could only get me so far. Then I thought that such a study...
Simon Schama’s Dead Certainties (1991)It would seem that the ideas of postmodernism fit the historical fiction model well and has helped to reinvigorate it as a genre and as a place where some historians feel comfortable (to an extent) exploring. In a rather...
POST 13: Novel Approaches: Postmodernism and historical fiction part 1‘At the core of culture is a continuous dialogue between myth and history, “plain invention” and the “core of historical fact”’ (Slotkin, 229). This quote from Richard Slotkin’s 2005 article...
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