Purgatory

Out of the depths: Dante’s Purgatorio, by Philip Terry, reviewed

2 November 2024 9:00 am

Having toured the infernal campus of the University of Essex, Terry arrives at the coast, to be confronted by a strange artificial mountain which he now must climb

War between Heaven and Hell: The Absolute Book, by Elizabeth Knox, reviewed

28 August 2021 9:00 am

Ursula Le Guin once described speculative fiction as ‘a great heavy sack of stuff, a carrier bag full of wimps…

The influence of money: a donor who helped build the fifth-century Basilica of Aquileia is commemorated in a mosaic portrait

Paying and praying: economics determined theology in the early Christian church

11 April 2015 9:00 am

Peter Brown’s explorations of the mindsets of late antiquity have been educating us for nearly half a century, ever since…