The first-person recollections of a foot soldier in the Austrian Army, fresh from his student days at Cambridge, grappling with the stirrings of a forbidden sexuality and the formation of a ... read more
Comprises the 26 meditations that our former archbishop and thoroughly good egg wrote for his parishioners during the first wave of the pandemic. Thoughtful and wise.
This rich historical analysis argues that the Enlightenment was a failure on its own terms. Terror, revolution, corruption, gross commercial excess and Empire prevailed instead of Reason.
Greek and Roman patrons, robber-baron philanthropists, welfare socialists, celebrity activists...: motives and results are explored through historical analysis and numerous interviews.
From the emergence of tyranny to the malaise of ennui, LS surveys how Hannah Arendt's life and work can help us confront the perils of contemporary post-truth politics.
Siena's medieval golden age was brought to a grisly end by an appalling visitation of the plague in 1348. Nevertheless, the republic of Siena lasted for four hundred years, from the C12th un... read more
The C10th synthesis of Greek thought in Central Asi. Starr's magnificent book is a cultural and intellectual history of the Islamic Enlightenment and its two chief proponents - Ibn Sina and ... read more
A fascinating history of Christianity told through the tumultuous and sometimes contested tales of twenty different churches and chapels scattered across Britain and Ireland.
A marvellous history of pilgrimage around the world. Sacred landscapes, geographical hotspots where cultures, religions and trade routes meet, the remote and the metropolitan - and humanity'... read more