The Painted Book: Illumination Revived
Jakub Koguciuk reviews Jonathan J.G. Alexander’s The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy Study of manuscript illumination in the Renaissance appeared pronounced dead before
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history
God on the Brain: Cognitive Science and Natural Theology
Karolina Prochownik on Helen De Cruz and Johan de Smedt’s A Natural History of Natural Theology Cognitive science of religion (CSR) is a
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First Impressions # 71: Marc Van De Mieroop on the Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia
Long before Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, Babylonians developed their own rational system for exploring truth. Joseph Ryan Kelly talks with Marc Van De
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Capital in the (Seventeenth to) Twentieth Century – By Diane Winston
Diane Winston in the One Nation Under God Forum ※ See the Forum’s homepage here. ※ Kevin Kruse’s One Nation Under God offers the
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Conversations in Black: Alexander G. Weheliye
Monica Miller and Christopher Driscoll talk with Alexander G. Weheliye about the world of Man, racializing assemblages, and the black body. ※ Dr. Alexander G. Weheliye is
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First Impressions #47: Steven K. Green
When did Americans start making the claim that the United States was founded as a Christian nation? Why has this myth been so
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A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
Over at LARB, Peter Birkenhead writes on Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited: Early in the pages of his memoir, Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov confesses that
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Jew and Judean: A Forum on Politics and Historiography in the Translation of Ancient Texts
Have scholars erased the Jews from Antiquity? The Marginalia Review of Books aims to host conversations about serious books and important ideas. Taking advantage of the opportunities supplied
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Coffee Table Talk with Diarmaid MacCulloch
In this interview with MRB’s editor-in-chief Timothy Michael Law, Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch discusses his aims as a historian, his prolific career in writing and on
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The Twilight of the American Enlightenment – By George M. Marsden
An excerpt from George M. Marsden’s latest book [This MRB exclusive is excerpted from The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and
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