Wild stories of medieval women
Four remarkable medieval women writers challenge a world dominated by male voices, offering vivid insights into female power, creativity, spirituality, and ambition in an era that ..
Significant works reviewed by Engelsberg Ideas writers.
Four remarkable medieval women writers challenge a world dominated by male voices, offering vivid insights into female power, creativity, spirituality, and ambition in an era that ..
One of the 18th-century’s most colourful princes, Augustus 'the Strong' combined disastrous military expeditions with an instinct for art and culture.
In Clint Eastwood's latest film, Juror 2, the 94-year old director reworks themes of sin, redemption and guilt, intrinsic to the complex foundations of the American idea.
A 'comprehensive' exhibition devoted to Surrealism at the Centre Pompidou deprives the movement of its most essential characteristic: its willingness to confront the world of dream..
Tirzah Garwood's work is characterised by strangeness, meditative intensity and precision, and a deep sense of play.
Georg Elser came within minutes of assassinating Adolf Hitler in 1939. Had he succeeded, the 20th century might have run a very different course.
Britain's railways are more than just machines. They are a miniature civilisation in their own right, teeming with human experience and bound together by shining ribbons of steel.
Through the religious turbulence of the early modern period, women played an essential role in shaping, challenging, converting, and resisting Christian beliefs across Europe and t..
Monarchs once formed a thin, global network of people who slept in one another’s palaces and wore one another’s medals. But if their relationships are interesting, were they import..