‘Sex, scandal and sermon’ in medieval Spain
08 February 2008A new study of the 14th-century narrative poem Libro de Buen Amor explores how its earthy tales of failed love are shaped by humour.
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A new study of the 14th-century narrative poem Libro de Buen Amor explores how its earthy tales of failed love are shaped by humour.
Recent funding of over $5 million to Dr Sabine Bahn by the Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI) raises diagnostic and therapeutic hopes for a group...
Dragon’s Blood, Purple of Cassius and Scarlet Lake – all pigments concocted by the 19th-century 'Colourmen' of Winsor & Newton artists’ suppliers. Now, a painstaking...
The project Accessing Virtual Egypt is breaking new ground in knowledge transfer between museums and prisons, with empowering results
The Shahnama Project is building a powerful online resource that will stimulate research and interest in Persian cultural history.
Even though we might be able to hear someone speaking, our powers for understanding what is actually being said switch off as we go to...
A new initiative funded by the Carbon Trust hopes to make solar power an affordable choice for homeowners within 10 years.
Humans often use diagrams for reasoning, but can computers do the same?
‘I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. […] And suddenly the memory...
The discovery in southern India of a well-preserved quarry dating from a million years ago is helping researchers to answer: how intelligent were our ancestors?