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网页I n an essay on scholarly ‘necrophilia’, published in 2021, the historian of science Lorraine Daston noted that writing histories of their own disciplines is often an excuse for scholars to commune with ghosts. Not just any ghosts, either, but their academic forebears. Daston connects this longing to the intense bonds forged by traditional institutions of …
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网页Peter Green 1924-2024. Peter Green died last week at the age of 99. His many books include a Life of Alexander of Macedon, a history of the Hellenistic age, an account of the Sicilian expedition and translations of Homer, Apollonius Rhodius, Catullus, Ovid and Juvenal. Born in England in 1924, he spent the second half of his life in the US ...
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网页Schism: China, America and the Fracturing of the Global Trading System by Paul Blustein. McGill-Queen’s, 356 pp., £27.99, September 2019, 978 1 928096 85 6
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网页England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland by Lorna Hutson. Cambridge, 323 pp., £30, November 2023, 978 1 009 25357 4
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网页2024年9月25日 · Medieval LOLs: Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, Part One. 18 September 2024. In the preface to the Decameron Boccaccio describes Florentine society laid waste by bubonic plague in the mid-14 th century. But before he gets to that he has a confession for the reader: he has been ...
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