Viking invasions and settlements left substantial legacies in late Anglo-Saxon England, attested in legal texts as a division between areas under Dena lage and those under Ængla lage. But how legal practice in Scandinavian-settled England functioned and differed from Anglo-Saxon law remains unclear. III Æthelred, the ‘Wantage Code’, provides criti…[Read more]

Der Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis des Bildprogramms zur Weltchronik des Rudolf von Ems zu anderen Bildprogrammen von volkssprachlichen Weltchroniken.
Es gibt keinen für Rudolf von Ems typischen Illustrationsmodus. Weder Rudolf noch irgendeine andere Weltchronik hat eine derart individuell ausgeprägte und von der biblischen Grundlage sich ab…[Read more]

A work-in-progress, this is an extended bibliography on Messene covering the period from 1831 and up to today. It includes the excavation reports and archaeological/historical publications of ancient and byzantine Messene in Messenia, SW Peloponnese. Please send via mail or message any corrections, suggestions and additions.

This dataset captures all of the references to trees in Richard Power’s The Overstory. Data from the book include page number, section, and sentence the reference appears in. Additional data include, when possible, scientific name, order, family, subfamily, genus, species, and native range.

Like early modern marginalia, tweets are used to engage with text in a plethora of ways: to annotate, explain, comment, cross- reference, call attention, memorise, disparage, satirise, ridicule, praise, translate, summarise, &c.—and to make apparently entirely extraneous, sometimes unintelligible, comments. Twitter is used by scholars in Early M…[Read more]

The article focuses on one of the most famous accounts of the events of 1204: the De Signis by Niketas Choniates. It demonstrates how Choniates constructed a (semi)fictional account of the assaults against the Byzantine culture and identity through a constellation of symbols and passages drawn from the Greek Classics. The article comprises three…[Read more]

V stands for Vanadium * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

The coronavirus-induced lockdown hasn’t just eroded our physical liberty; it has also eroded our intellectual freedom. Our freedom to think has been put under lock and key. Clearly, we are on the threshold of a dangerous phase. Which way we go from here will depend on how soon and how well we gauge the danger and start exploring the ways to c…[Read more]

The last print issue of FORWARD Press was published in April, 2016. This editorial in the last issue of Forward Press has been written by Pramod Ranjan. Thereafter Forward Press continued to be published as a website and also ventured into the business of books. Pramod Ranjan parted ways with Forward Press in October 2019 in protest against the…[Read more]

Kherson eleison * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

नावेल कोरोना वायरस के अनुपातहीन भय के खिलाफ आवाज़ उठाने वालों में इतालवी दार्शनिक जार्जो आगम्बेन सबसे प्रतिष्ठित आवाज हैं। उनकी बातों का विश्व के प्रमुख अकादमिशयनों ने संज्ञान लिया है, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप कथित ऑनलाइन-डिजिटल शिक्षा के के विरोध की सुगबुगाहट वैश्विक स्तर पर आरंभ हुई है।

यहां प्रस्तुत है, उनकी एक टिप्पणी…

Spanish abstract: Un tema importante en ‘Mantícora’, la novela de Robertson Davies, es el de la búsqueda de la relación con el padre, por parte de protagonista, David Staunton, abogado alcohólico y solitario, agobiado por su familia rica y por verse desheredado. Pero padres puede haber más de uno, en la realidad o en la imaginación. Y, hay que p…[Read more]