The possible explanations for her conduct vary according to her perceived status as either a willing participant or a victim. If she is a willing participant in her capitulation and seduction, there are three reasons why the knight is successful, according to antecedent...

During the second quarter of the eighteenth century, Jamaica emerged as the richest and most valuable colony in Britain’s Atlantic empire. The labour of enslaved Africans not only fuelled Jamaica’s...

This article considers why the idea of an ideal or planned political future for Italy went into decline in the last quarter of the twentieth century, after having dominated the country’s political thinking for much of the modern era. What form did imagined futures take ...

As I write this essay, more than 250,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in the last ten months. To put this quarter of a million deaths into perspective, ...

This article considers Richard de Fournival’s Bestiaire d’amour, a French text from the second quarter of the thirteenth century. The Bestiaire’s narrator combines a love-lyric and a bestiary to ad...

Moya Bailey is known for coining the term “misogynoir,” defined as the “particular venom directed at Black women through negative representations in Media” (xiii). Bailey has personal experience with this phenomenon. She gained a name for herself in the world of hip-hop...

For most of Canadian economic history, French-Canadians (who composed more than a quarter of the country’s population) had living standards inferior to those of English-Canadians. This was true even within the province of Quebec, where the French-Canadians constituted a...

In the heart of the New Orleans French Quarter in Jackson Square, Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), mounted on a battle horse and exuding confident resolve with hat in hand, acknowledges that he has led ...

Within the last quarter of the twentieth century and now well into the twenty-first, the historical novel has been a prolific and popular form in Spain for commentary on the dictatorship, the Trans...