Michel Summer, author of Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739), discusses the notion that the early medieval missionary Willibrord was a European before there was a united Europe, and questions how modern categorisations from the 19th and 20th centuries are applied to the medieval period. On 26 September 2024, Pope Francis paid a … Continue reading
T. S. Eliot’s Black Arts Legacy: Robert Hayden, the Middle Passage, and The Waste Land
To celebrate the release of the latest issue of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual (Volume 6), we are showcasing an article by Anita Patterson titled 'T. S. Eliot’s Black Arts Legacy: Robert Hayden, the Middle Passage, and The Waste Land' which is featured in Volume 6 of The Annual.
Through the Looking Glass: T. S. Eliot and Indian Philosophy
Manju Jain’s “Through the Looking Glass: T. S. Eliot and Indian Philosophy” is the definitive study of Eliot’s contact with Sanskrit and Buddhist texts for our generation. Drawing on the new editions of Eliot’s prose and letters, Jain examines Eliot’s lifelong engagement with and ambivalence towards Indian philosophy, comparing his attitudes to those of his teachers and contemporaries. We are pleased to share that her article is Free to Read throughout the rest of this month to August.
Reframing Rousseau
Barbara Abrams, Mira Morgenstern, and Karen Sullivan are the authors of Reframing Rousseau’s Lévite d'Ephraïm: The Hebrew Bible, hospitality, and modern identity, the May volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. An exciting new perspective on the influences of Biblical writings on Rousseau’s works, the study considers themes in Le Lévite d’Ephraïm, … Continue reading
Believing in an Age of Enlightenment
Editors of Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France, Mita Choudhury and Daniel J. Watkins argue that Enlightenment did not signal the end of religious tradition and show how religious belief in France continued to function in dynamic ways throughout the long eighteenth century. Over the past few decades historians have justly complicated the narrative of the … Continue reading
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