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misreading the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
The plague arrived in Ireland in the same year, recorded by the Annals of Tigernach as a ‘mortalitas magna’. It seems likely that it was carried by traders bringing amphorae of wines and oils and the fine tablewares sought by lords in the West.
Max Adams • The First Kingdom
CHAPTER EIGHT · THE HOME FRONT Public and private
Mary Beard • SPQR
Businessmen driven by lust for money, zealots driven by lust for power, and politicians driven by, well, all three medieval lusts, have, over the intervening centuries, proven fully capable of self-destruction— quite contrary to Enlightenment suppositions.
Philip Auerswald • The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy
Todd Presner • The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
Alderman Sir Thomas Smythe,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
Fashion at court changed rapidly, and that which had cost the equivalent of a large town house to buy could appear upon the back of the most ambitious only a handful of times before appearing passé. For those like Robert Dudley, patron of one of the acting companies, handing on such clothes could form part of his financial support package, perhaps
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