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7. Juni 2024 · He is the last monarch for whom we have dying words. The terminal utterance of Elizabeth II has not been made public. But, given that her final visitor was the hapless new Prime Minister Liz Truss, there is plenty of scope for mythstorians to invent something pithy.
17. Juni 2024 · The book engages with a recent trend in historiography that rejects the Weberian conflation of modernity with disenchantment (with the concomitant implication that the persistence of magic is a ‘problem’ to be solved), in favour of a view of magic as part of modernity.
20. Juni 2024 · As Monod shows convincingly here, the occult (defined broadly as alchemy, astrology and natural magic) was rarely perceived as a uniform movement of ideas, its adherents frequently picking and choosing those elements of the ‘occult’ which most appealed to them. It was thus a protean body of ideas, susceptible to frequent re ...
Vor 2 Tagen · The leaders of the Enlightenment were not especially democratic, as they more often look to absolute monarchs as the key to imposing reforms designed by the intellectuals. Voltaire despised democracy and said the absolute monarch must be enlightened and must act as dictated by reason and justice—in other words, be a " philosopher ...
17. Juni 2024 · Simply put, modernism emerged around the early 20th century and marked a departure from traditional, highly realistic art. It aimed to counter earlier schools of poetry — which often focused on religion and elevated language – and instead give voice to an intellectual, sensory, and evolving world. Modernist poets believed in ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Whether exploring the machinations of Britain's Tudors or bringing fresh perspective on centuries-old myths surrounding French monarchs, each film offers something unique for even the most seasoned royal watchers.
Vor einem Tag · “Tropical Modernism was Britain’s unique contribution to International Modernism – a colonial architecture, developed by British architects Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry, against the background of anti-colonial struggle in India and West Africa in the late 1940s. This exhibition looks at the colonial origins of Tropical Modernism in British West Africa, and the survival of the style in the ...
