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Whether vestiges of paganism survived Europe’s Christianisation is a subject of enduring fascination. Scholarly debate navigates between the ‘maximalist’ position (much survived) and the ‘minimalist’

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There are many reasons that an artist’s ambitions can be thwarted, including the decision to become a teacher. Later this month, an exhibition will shine a light on talent obscured by a career in the classroom

How Old Norse mythology endured in the Christian era

BOHEMIANS A BLOOMSBURY INGÉNUE The lives ...

Talking infants in medieval French literature