Essays, Feuilleton, Literary Criticism

First published in 1989. Mas”udi was born in Baghdad about 896 AD, during the Caliphate of Mu”tadid and died in Egypt sometime around the year 956, eleven years after the Buwaihids, a Shi”a dynast …

Delicious entertainments of the soule is a translation of a collection of conferences which Francis de Sales held for the Order of the Sisters of the Visitation. This order took the form of an instit …

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies m …

The Arctic is heating up. While China, the US and Russia are militarizing the North pole – sending submarines and ice-breakers – the ice itself continues to recede creating new trade routes and new o …

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History—natural history, human history, and personal history—and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan’s career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahua …

Variously described as a comedy of manners, a psychological romance, and a type of fabliau, the 13th-century narrative Flamenca is the best medieval romance written in Occitan. Its uniqueness springs …

In these new essays leading European and North American scholars of medieval medicine focus on manuscripts and their transmission and demonstrate how medievalists in all disciplines can profit by stu …

George Orwell is acclaimed as one of English literature”s great essayists. Yet, while many are considered classics, as a body of work his essays have been neglected. Peter Marks provides the first s …