By Alice van den Bosch University of Exeter In the Martyrdom of St Crispina (from hereon Crispina), the eponymous heroine from Tebessa in Mauretania Caesarensis (a Roman province in North Africa) is brought before the proconsul Anullinus who asks her why she refuses to make a sacrifice to the Roman gods and gets increasingly frustrated […]
By Ashwag Al Thubaiti University of Exeter Introduction[1] Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, and The Last Enchantment have all the elements you need to describe them as an Arthurian trilogy: historical locales, the sword Excalibur, the tragedy, the love and the war.[2] But its theme of education is one of its most […]
By Jamie Bryson University of Exeter Background and Overview of the Project By the early twentieth century, tsarist Russia’s inflexible and repressive political system was facing sustained opposition and the growth of mass violence. After an illusory patriotic upsurge with the outbreak of the First World War, the strains of the conflict and military defeat […]
By Verity Bruce University of Exeter This paper offers a brief examination of conceptions of angelic gender in the Latin West, particularly in the thirteenth century, though I also examine some twelfth- and fourteenth-century sources. I will first address the question of ‘what is an angel’, examining aspects of their nature particularly relevant here. I […]