Masterpieces of primitive art

This chapter describes the origin and development of the concept of ‘missionary bishop’ from the mid-nineteenth century. Charting the origin of the term in the American Episcopal C...

This chapter examines how the late-Victorian folklorist and critic Andrew Lang reinvented the idea of many-sidedness as a populist polemic—one that showed W. B. Yeats how to recupe...

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...