A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice

In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.

The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described...

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‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ the old adage tells us. Despite being the first portrait engraved in England, the portrait of Matthew Parker (1504–1575) from the College Statutes (CCCC MS 582) h...

Beyond Sarpi: Reading Prohibited Books about the Council of Trent in Early Modern Italy

In un’epoca come il Cinquecento in cui le frontiere dei grandi monoteismi e gli equilibri interni alle singole confessioni vacillavano, i protagonisti del dibattito religioso furono particolarmente in...

Women and the History of Samuel Pepys's Diary - Volume 65 Issue 5

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Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised the...

Language and Knowledge in the Spanish Empire

Dr Harry Spillane discusses various coats of arms associated with Matthew Parker that are still visible in the College collections and beyond

With 101 shortlistees, the AAP's PROSE Awards for academic, scholarly, and research publishing announces 37 category winners.

Aranha, Paolo. “Cattolicità e accomodazione missionaria: Il Simbolo apostolico nella traduzione portoghese di Baltasar da Costa (1661) dello Ñānōpatēcam di Roberto Nobili.” In "Il Simbolo nella t...

Greg Jenner takes us to 16th-century Ireland to meet pirate queen Grainne O’Malley.

«Codicologia e bibliografia (cioè, secondo l’onnicomprensiva definizione inglese, “bibliography”); storia dell’editoria e del commercio librario, storia della scrittura (delle scritture) e storia dell...