Rohmer at Camelot
Éric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois (1978) vividly recreates the imaginative world in which the people of the Middle Ages lived inside their heads.
Charlotte Allen
· 22 min read
Historical Myths
A collection of 3 posts
Marie Antoinette: Figure of Myth, Magnet for Lies
Marie Antoinette was not entirely innocent in her lifetime; in fact, she was guilty of many extravagances.
Matthew Fraser
· 15 min read
Muslim Vikings — Abuses of History
Why did a flimsy interpretation of a small artefact from provincial Sweden seem so important to the English-language world’s most powerful news outlets?
Blake Smith
· 5 min read