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When Umberto Eco published his surprise best seller The Name of the Rose in 1980, he created a new kind of novel, one that combined a murder investigation with philosophical inquiry and introduced the world to the unfamiliar experience of reading about medieval theology while actually remaining awake. Eco helped...
Richard Leese is a rare man in local government. He not only thinks good architecture and design matter, he also makes fine buildings happen. As the leader of Manchester City Council, he runs a municipality that was once rich in 19th century commercial architecture - buildings with Victorian arches and polychrome...
Many have written of LEW WASSERMAN's power, but they don't really understand its source. It didn't derive from his powerful clients, his brain, or his pocketbook, but from the way he lived his life. Medieval knights lived by a Code of Honor. Lew lived the same way...
He first studied at Oxford, staying to become a fellow, then a medieval history lecturer and finally a university reader in late Roman and early Byzantine studies. He also worked at the University of London before moving to the United States and becoming the Professor of History and Classics at...
Sprouting off from the president, 11 branches represented the deans of each individual school at Harvard. To explain the deans, Stone used the oft-cited medieval kingdom analogy for Harvard’s power centers.