This article introduces various definitions and criteria for the astronomical phenomena of “encroachments” (close lunar and planetary conjunctions) in pre-modern China. With improv...

“And why may not I go to college?” Alethea Stiles and Women’s Latin Learning in Early America

Presented here for the first time are the letters of a young, little-known American woman, Alethea Stiles (1745-1784), to her learned cousin Ezra Stiles (1727-1795), the seventh pr...

Farinel’s Ground and other ‘Follyes’ in English sources of the late 17th and early 18th centuries

Abstract This article is the result of a comprehensive study of folia grounds—usually known as Farinel’s Ground in England—published, copied in or otherwise connecte...

Studies in Bracton — An Addendum

Among the sources of Old English law upon which Bracton drew was the Instituta Cnuti, a twelfth-century version of Cnut's code, which that king is believed to have issued in 1027, ...

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