The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

Monty Python paved the way for a new type of comedy. Revolutionising British satire, the troupe – composed of Graham Chapman, ...

Everett Collection Inc/Alamy In popular depictions like Braveheart and Game of Thrones, medieval battles involve two screeching ... Almost our entire image of pirates comes from a single 142-year-old ...

When medieval walls were demolished in 1807 and ... High on a pediment with a book in his hand, the poet now serves as a popular meeting point. We cross the square and look into St. Barbara's ...

On reading Svetlana’s first book, Twenty Letters ... Had they chosen to follow medieval dynastic traditions, 20th-century tyrants could have spared their daughters this choice. But would a world in ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Medieval books were often bound with sealskin, as revealed by biocodicological analysis. Initially believed to be made from local animal skins, chemises were ...