The title King of the Gypsies has been claimed or given over the centuries to many different people. It is both culturally and geographically specific.
The Lumières (literally in English: The Lights) was a cultural, philosophical, literary and intellectual movement beginning in the second half of the 17th century, originating in France, then western Europe and spreading throughout the rest…
„Koncem padesátých let byla televize nejdůležitější formou masové zábavy a kultury. Dala vznik obrovskému průmyslu, jenž s sebou nesl nezbytné průvodní jevy jako všudypřítomný ´TV dinner´ - právě jedna forma vhodné příležitosti pro odbyt…
Percy's greatest contribution is considered to be his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), the first of the great ballad collections, which was the one work most responsible for the ballad revival in English poetry that was a…
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs…
The effect of Froude’s work in the years following Carlyle’s death was extraordinary. Almost overnight, it seemed, Carlyle plunged from his position as Sage of Chelsea and Grand Old Victorian to the object of puzzled dislike, or even of…