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...Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton, Allen Lane £30/Harvard University Press $39.95, 304 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Clair Wills’ ‘Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets’ is published by Allen Lane on January 25 Copyright © 2024, Clair Wills....
...Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, by Peter Heather, Allen Lane £35, 736 pages Jane Shaw is professor of the history of religion at the University of Oxford Join our online book group on Facebook...
...Its name was linked to the pagan god Pan, who was honoured in Painswick with yearly processions and Arcadian parties, blessed by its vicar....
...He expounds the influence of a pantheistic philosopher, the pagan Plotinus....
...Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism, by Larry Siedentop, Allen Lane, RRP£20, 448 pages Medieval Catholic theology, philosophy and law are not the most obvious places to look for...
...Patrick French is the author of ‘India: A Portrait’ (Allen Lane) A Lovesong for India, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Little, Brown, RRP£13.99, 288 pages...
...35 US conservatives attacked which box office hit as a “big, dull, America-hating PC revenge fantasy” with an “abhorrent new age, pagan, anti-capitalist worldview”?...
...Todd Solondz, the terminally depressed director of the award-winning Happiness, appears to have cheered up and settled into his role as a kind of super-curdled Woody Allen....
...As Goodman explains, the victory of Vespasian and Titus established the defeat of the Jews as a major, iconic symbol of Roman power for almost all the rest of pagan antiquity....
...GOD’S WAR: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman Allen Lane ₤30, 1,040 pages The crusades are an enduringly popular subject and one of the main routes into medieval history for the general...
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