Significant works reviewed by Engelsberg Ideas writers.
Although he is often remembered for his defence of witch-hunting and divinely sanctioned monarchy, James Stuart was also a shrewd statesman, a prolific writer and a flawed – but fa..
A scandal that took place in Königsberg in the 1830s tells a grander story of Europe and religion, and the battle between reason and imagination.
Visionary German collector, Helene Kröller-Müller, championed Van Gogh and the Neo-Impressionists long before the art world recognised their worth.
The Ottomans' lightning conquests reshaped the geopolitical landscape of Europe and the Middle East, before the expense of governing a vast territorial empire began to take its tol..
The epic drama of the Norman Conquest has been adapted into a half-baked tale, light on history and heavy on tropes.
The Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy willed himself and his poetry upon the world’s imagination. A man of striking contradictions, he was a prophet of the perils and pr..
The cosmopolitan world of Central Europe was destroyed by the 20th-century tragedies of total war and Communism. Yet as an idea, it lived on, providing a powerful rallying point fo..
Traditional craft industries, now vanished or endangered, used to play a vital role in cementing communities. Why might they not do so again?
A creative tension between the trauma of war and the allure of Americanised, postwar life lay at the heart of the Japanese avant-garde. Its artists' compelling work continues to sh..
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