26/07/2018
African Literature Today, much like modern African Literature and its criticism as a formal intellectual discipline, has been in the Academy for half a century. Chinua Achebe published his first… READ MORE
23/07/2018
Here’s some great insight into a recent publication, an unusual and very special new book devoted to the work of an artist who’s a giant in his field: John Ferguson,… READ MORE
18/07/2018
Dr John S. Lee’s The Medieval Clothier is remarkable in at least two ways: it gives us wonderful insight into the industry that formed the backbone of medieval England’s economy,… READ MORE
13/07/2018
Jeffrey L. Forgeng talks about the challenges of translating this classic text on historical combat. I chose to translate Lecküchner’s 1482 treatise on the art of swordsmanshipamon g the many… READ MORE
09/07/2018
Without translation there would be no Holocaust. That’s the conclusion I came to about two-thirds of the way through the research and writing for my book, Witness between Languages. It’s… READ MORE
06/07/2018
The fear of damnation, the modernist sensibility and the racial politics of twentieth-century America are just some of the topics bursting out of this July’s must-reads. Take a look through… READ MORE
04/07/2018
Dear Nancy, I’m writing a letter in the way that a woman of the late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth century might have written to her friend—to share ideas, emotions, thoughts, aspirations—assuming that… READ MORE
25/06/2018
Unlike a road sign on its baffling road network, Leeds IMC appears to us in plenty of time, and we’re always expecting – nay, anticipating – it. “OK, who’s going… READ MORE
21/06/2018
Published by York Medieval Press earlier this year, Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations in the Later Middle Ages has sparked a great deal of interest and a heartening flood of review requests…. READ MORE
19/06/2018
On 15 June 2018, almost exactly two years to the day (16 June 2016) after the publication of the original hardback, the Boydell Press published the paperback edition of Dr… READ MORE
Gender and Race in American History