Private gardens

During the Late Middle Ages a unique type of ‘mixed media’ recycled and remnant art arose in houses of religious women in the Low Countries: enclosed gardens. They date from the ti...

This book, compiled in honour of the work and life of Professor Jonathan Fitchen, brings together preeminent scholars from across the private international law world to address a w...

Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given, but also at a time of unique interest in plants and gardens.His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific inte...

Running a professional practice is an exciting, daunting, and at times frustrating endeavor. The goal of this book is to provide you with the practical information and guidance you...

This chapter reviews the book Private Giving, Public Good: The Impact of Philanthropy at the University of Edinburgh (2014), by Jean Grier and Mary Bownes. The book offers an accou...

This chapter opens with a reading of Rossetti’s nursery rhyme book, Sing-Song (1872), in which the nonhuman world is disclosed as an evolving incarnation of the Spirit. Her close a...

This book concerns the life and theatrical career of the great native-born English composer and musician of the eighteenth century, Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778). Its purpose i...