Tag Archives: History

On this account Byzantium didn't just passively preserve ancient traditions, as Gibbon claimed, but creatively developed them.

"You’ve got to be cool in your own skin. You’ve got to be content with your output," says Lynskey.

Nobody will ask you for money, nobody is asking for pity, all they want is a chance to tell their story and be heard.

All it takes is a few images on a screen, or even a glance out the window, to bring it all back.

A lovely telling of one of the Bible's most compelling tales, the story of Deborah.

"My muse is fickle; she tends to tease me with ideas, get me fired up and then desert me when I need her the most."

There's sex, there's passion, there's politics here, in a nicely, if a touch too calculatingly, assembled mix.

Bullfighting: culture or cruelty?

Heroic attitudes are all very well and good, but if you don't live to see another day what purpose do they serve?

In the modern context of controversy about the place of women in various churches this is explosive stuff.