Francesca Alexander, 1837-1917

This ground-breaking book is the first to address the feminine and feminist politics of Intimiste art - a modernist mode of art making developed in the 1890s by Édouard Vuillard wh...

This chapter discusses the most famous episode of medieval reading—the moment in which Francesca da Rimini and her lover Paolo simultaneously kiss and fall into perdition while rea...

In January 1837, a remarkable event unfolded in a small Baptist church in Cincinnati, Ohio: the Catholic Bishop John Purcell and the Protestant minister Alexander Campbell engaged ...

This chapter looks at how Alexander the Great was remembered by democratic regimes in both Athens and Asia Minor in the early Hellenistic period. It argues that while Alexander’s r...

This book provides a brief introduction to the beginning of the reign of Severus Alexander and commentary on this final small portion of Dio’s history. Although several sources, in...

Abstract The cities founded by Alexander the Great are an essential part of his overall achievements. The problems concerning them, however, are many - and some i...

In the early 19th century, Cuba emerged as the world’s largest producer of sugar and the United States its most important buyer. Barely documented today, there was a close commerci...