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• Pete Conry

  

  2 hours ago

  15 minutes of fame: Hildegard of Bingen, medieval polymath

  historyextra.com - Emily Briffett

  Janina Ramirez explains why medieval polymath Hildegard of Bingen deserves recognition today Emily Briffett It’s the HistoryExtra podcast’s 15th …

• Pete Conry

  

  5 hours ago

  Life in the Middles Ages is more gross than engrossing in this ruthless novel

  NPR - Maureen Corrigan

  Once upon a time, popular culture used to embrace charming or comic fantasies about the Middle Ages. From Camelot to Monty Python, Disney castles to Medieval Times dinner theater, we dreamt of the Middle Ages as a time of knights in shining armor and grateful peasantry, marred only by occasional …

• Pete Conry

  

  2 hours ago

  ‘Corporate Head’

  Atlas Obscura

  Almost whimsical, yet rather grotesque and undeniably unusual, the “Corporate Head” sculpture stands downcast with his head completely buried in the …

• Pete Conry

  

  12 hours ago

  'Rogues' showcases Patrick Radden Keefe's preternatural gift for reading people

  NPR - Michael Schaub

  In the first essay in Rogues, the new collection from journalist Patrick Radden Keefe, a wine collector is explaining why he's determined to find out the truth about the possibly counterfeit bottles he bought years before. If he got cheated, he tells Keefe, he wants whoever is responsible to pay. …

• Pete Conry

  

  21 hours ago

  How Japanese avant-garde ceramicists have tested the limits of clay

  theconversation.com - Catherine Speck

  Review: Pure Form, Art Gallery of South Australia. Japanese art post the second world war is infinitely fascinating. At a time when the country was …

• Pete Conry

  

  3 days ago

  Lifting the Flap

  historytoday.com - Madeleine Killacky

  Anatomical pop-up books, introduced in the 16th century, took anatomy out of the lecture hall and into the home. We think of reading as a primarily …