Literate games: Roman urban society and the game of ‘alea.’
Nicholas Purcell
INTRODUCTION
Clever Palamedes found me as a dis…
Category: Past & Present
Liberty caps and liberty trees
J. David Harden
Among the first voices raised during the inaugural meeting of the French National Con…
The invention of leisure in early modern Europe
Peter Burke
In 1964 the seventh Past and Present conference was concerned with work …
The problem of female sanctity in Carolingian Europe c. 780-920
Julia M.H. Smith
Adalhelm, bishop of Sees (c. 890), believed he owed…
The culture of children in medieval England
Nicholas Orme
Anyone wishing to study the history of children in the Middle Ages could w…
Common violence: vengeance and inquisition in fourteenth-century Marseille
Daniel Lord Smail
I
Medieval violence has a bad re…
“The inborn hate of things English”: Ernie O’Malley and the Irish Revolution 1916-1923
Richard English
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In August 1937 Lenno…
Memory, orality and literacy in an early medieval society – 9th-century Carolingian society, St. Gallen abbey, monk Notker
Matthew Innes</…
Shanghailanders: the formation and identity of the British settler community in Shanghai, 1843-1937
Robert Bickers
British settlers …
Time, slavery and plantation capitalism in the ante-bellum American south
Mark M. Smith
INTRODUCTION
In so far as they have co…