Anna’s Alexiad : Conquering Your Audience in the Medieval Crusader Era
hen a writer puts pen to paper, they are encouraged to keep a specific audience in mind. Scholars in the medieval era, a time when the literacy rate was often limited to the monastic communities in Europe, were especially beholden to their patrons to connect with...
The Gothic Church That Moved On Wheels
March 26, 1964, the Czechoslovak government signed the death warrant of the entire city of Most. No one died as a consequence of this, though: it was the city itself — with its houses, shops, streets, theatres, monuments, parks, and schools—that was wiped off the face...
Why Tibets Feed Their Dead Ones To Vulture
ulture is peoples’ way of life. It is the norms through which ethnic groups around the world are differentiated from one another. This is to say that what is right in Asia might be wrong in Africa. And the Tibetans’ way of burying their dead is a perfect example of...
