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For three years in a row, Transparency International (TI), a Berlin-based watchdog, has ranked Bangladesh as the country perceived to be the world's most venal. Corruption in Bangladesh operates with the sweep, intricacy and structured hierarchy of a medieval feudal system, replete with an English-language nomenclature in...
As one might expect from a scholar who has written wittily on Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti's obsession with the Australian wombat, Trumble saves much of his best material for the story's marginalia. There are the early 18th century "gurning" competitions of York- shire ("The frightfull'st grinner...
From the ancient Greek Winged Victory of Samothrace in the Louvre to the latest designer frocks in the shops of Avenue Montaigne, Paris remains the world capital of beauty. And this spring, half a dozen Paris museums are offering a sweeping survey of artistic beauty through the centuries, from medieval...
“It harmonizes the four gospels into one account, so there’s a stripping away of a lot of the detail,” says Aitken. In addition to the four gospels, Gibson drew upon the writings of a sixteenth century nun who had visions about...
Smith is also offering a Design School course on Renaissance art and architecture in Italy next year. The course is joint-listed with the Medieval Studies Committee, an arrangement which allows undergraduates to enroll without cross-registering.