In the Middle Ages, England emerged as one of the most influential and powerful kingdoms in Europe – a far cry from its desolate, devastated state after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Over the ...

Accounts that are received from antiquity and repeated over and over again, then merge with eyewitness accounts and blend ...

Jorge Luis Borges’s essay “Beatrice’s Last Smile” opens with a daring assertion: “My intention is to comment on the most moving lines literature has achieved.” In the “Paradiso,” the third part of his ...