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The art of memory
Our ability to recall facts and experiential detail helps us understand, navigate, and make predictions about the world. Julia Nurse explores some of the techniques we have developed to help us to remember.
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Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
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Lovesickness and ‘The Love Thief’
An 11th-century poem of love, lust and possibly gruesome death still resonates today.
Catalogue
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Palaces and other buildings on the Palatine, Rome: plan. Drawing.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 566664iPart of: Ancient bridges and buildings of Rome and Peru. Drawings, etching and manuscripts.- E-books
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Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi`ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran
Babaie, SussanDate: 2008- Books
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A compendious gazetteer; or, pocket companion to the Royal Palaces, Towns, Villages, Villas, and Remarkable Places, within sixteen miles of windsor. Pointing out Whatever is most Remarkable for Antiquity, Grandeur, or Rural Beauty; With Historical and Biograghical Remarks. Illustrated with a map.
Date: [1794]- Books
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British curiosities in art and nature; giving an account of rarities both antient and modern, viz. Monuments, Monasteries, Priories, Frieries, Nunneries, Colleges, Hospitals, Walls, Roman Camps, Garrisons, Highways, Coins, Altars, Urns, Pavements of Mosaic Work, Temples, Churches, Bridges, Kings Palaces, Noblemens Seats, Paintings, Gardens, Statues, Fountains, Rivers, Lakes, Abysses, Caverns, Rocks, Hills, Plants, Flowers, Birds, Beasts, Fish, Shells, Learning and Learned Men, unusual Customs of Places, with whatever else is worthy observing. Likewise an account of the posts, markets, and fair-towns. To which is added, A very Useful Scheme, containing a brief Account of the State of each County in England, at one View, curiously engraved, and printed on a Sheet to fold up or put in a Frame.
Date: MDCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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A new display of the beauties of England; or, a description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, Royal Palaces, Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial, in different parts of the Kingdom. Adorned with a variety of copper-plate arts, Cuts, neatly engraved. ...
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]