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Shifts in Grammatical Gender in Multilingual England

By Max Fincher Language exists in a constant state of change, with greater, more seismic shifts often times occurring due to external...

Confusion & Competition: Linguistic Transition in 'Las cien novelas de Juan Bocacio'

By Emily Di Dodo The earliest Castilian translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron, Las cien novelas de Juan Bocacio, enjoyed a substantial...

Circulation, Fluidity, and Adaptation: The Case of the 'Mirror of Holy Church'

By Segolene Gence My thesis focuses on a devotional text composed of a guide on how to live a perfect spiritual life with accompanying...

A Meteorological Analogy in the Wycliffite Revised Versions of Richard Rolle’s 'English Psalter'

By Alexandra Barnes When a textual work appears complete and holistic, it can be difficult to see that is the product of many...

Creating, Capturing, Converting: The Seventh-Century Burwell Work-Box

By Jennifer Coulton Figure 1: The Burwell Work-Box.[i] In 1927, T. C. Lethbridge uncovered a seventh-century female grave in Burwell,...

Rota Fortunae: From a Roman Goddess to Medieval Allegory

By Sena Özbay The Concept of Fortuna Fortune, etymologically, coincides with the unpredictable and uncontrollable effect on human...

‘From one Square to Another: Social Mobility in Medieval Chess Moralities (13th- 15th centuries)’

By Maxime Kamin Figure 1: Lewis Chessmen, Twelfth century.[i] Introduction The game of chess in Western medieval culture ties in with a...

Wyrd-Cræft: Unearthing Ecological Activity in 'The Ruin'

By Joseph Burton One of the many ways in which we can contemplate the nature of ‘transition’ is through ruins. That is to say, whether as...

A Medieval Cross-Imperial Monument and Its Site -

From the Church of the Holy Apostles to the Imaret of Sultan Mehmed II in Constantinople. By Aksa Boyraz A Land of Transitions The city...

Transitions and Tribulations: The City of Lyon and the Capetians, c.1271-c.1292

By Nathan Meades Late medieval France was a polity in profound transition, which witnessed significant growth in the territorial and...

Duo Lunar

To accompany the upcoming Question issue on Sustainability and Innovation, Bristol-based PGR Nemo D'Qrill has submitted an interpretative...

Reimagining a Requiem: Using the text/musical structure interface in vocal music

In 2017, I was delighted to be commissioned to write a setting of The Requiem Mass for The Westminster Williamson Voices by Dr James...

Explorations in Disanthropy: The Absence of Human Community

The December 2020 issue of The New Yorker[1] magazine features an evolutionary tree comprised of make-believe creatures. A disgruntled...

Children's Homes in Wartime Hungary

Children’s homes sheltered thousands of Jewish children against anti-Semitic persecution in Budapest during the last year of the Second...

Cultural Exchange in the Roman Provinces: Nymph Worship on Hadrian’s Wall

The nymphs traversed the transitional realm between gods and mortals in the ancient imagination. As the personifications/providers of...

Hen Eglwys Silian Old Church: delivering a grassroots community heritage project

The small village of Silian is typical of many rural communities in south-west Wales in that it falls within the top 20% of Wales’ most...

The Odious Odysseus

This artwork is a humorous re-elaboration of the episode of Odysseus and the Cyclops taken from Homer’s Odyssey. The events in the...

The Myth of the Silent Under-Classes in Ancient Greek and Roman Religion

Most of us are exposed to ancient Greek and Roman religion through monumental architecture such as the Parthenon and through raucous...

The Thesean cult of personality: power, politics and contingent mythologies within Classical Athens

Between the eighth to late sixth centuries BC, the mythic traditions related to the figure of Theseus, slayer of the Cretan Minotaur,...

The Fairytale Casebook

The Fairytale Casebook is a physical theatre performance project about fairytales, folklore and myths, their echos in our contemporary...

Beyond the Border

What do we really know about borders? I mean us, European citizens with passports valid in most of the countries in the world. Us, the...

Chic's New Single calls us to Come and be Safer on the Dancefloor

It is a bright, energetic song about doomsday. Chic’s 2018 song, Till the World Falls, their first single for an album in 26 years,...

Filmistaan: A love for cinema that forges connections across time, nations, and borders

“Whenever Aftaab brings a film to show in the village from India, I always come to watch it. Under this guise I can visit that side, meet...

Image of Margin

Since the rise of Modernist design, our lives have become inundated with the concept of material wealth. Simple geometric shapes are...

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