Debated concepts : magnificence and splendour -- The classical and medieval precedents for magnificence -- The magnificence debate in fifteenth-century Florence -- The currency of the magnificence ...

In his essay "Why Look At Animals?" John Berger mourns the lost reciprocity of human-animal exchange. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, he writes, animals were not just meat, leather, and horn, but ...

Lydia Millet’s “Magnificence” is a novel of ideas. I mean that as a high compliment, for the ideas Millet invokes are the only ones that matter: life, death, love, longing, extinction, the ongoing ...

Down-at-heel scruff, uppity, tightlipped professional or shifty ne’er do well – what is your judgment? What if you actively mined for the magnificence in the shuffling old biddy, tattooed youth or ...