In this blog post, Carl Dixon, author and translator of the latest title in the Translated Texts for Byzantinists series, discusses the Paulicians of the Byzantine Empire and the controversies of Peter the Sicilian's writings on them. The Paulicians are one of the more unusual heresies of the Middle Ages. Unlike many of their ilk, … Continue reading
Remembering Through Poetry: Voices from the Concentration Camps
In this blog post, Belle Marie Joseph reflects on remarkable poems written secretly in Nazi concentration camps, and explains how years of research into these writings shaped her latest book 'Trauma and Meaning in French Concentration Camp Poetry (1943-1945)'.
First Proceedings of the British Academy Title Meets Delayed Open Access Sales Threshold
For the first time, a volume of Proceedings of the British Academy has transformed to Open Access, having hit the required sales threshold.
Rethinking Democratic Competition
A new book from the British Academy sets out to reframe the role of competition in democratic theory.
Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland
In this post, authors Renée Fox and Mary L. Mullen discuss the findings of their edited collection, Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland. The second volume in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth-Century series from Liverpool University Press, this book challenges assumptions about nineteenth-century Irish identity, exceptionalism, and literary conventions. Credit: “Two forces,” … Continue reading
