Abstract This article will investigate the extent to which the contacts made by Byzantine envoys to western Europe from 1394 onwards were later used by them and by their families to secure a safe haven following the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It will examine first ...

Abstract Amon Wilbee was the authorial pseudonym for four tracts critical of the Long Parliament that appeared between July 1647 and May 1648. Wilbee depicted leading MPs as corrupt, self-interested, and insensitive to the needs of the people. These tracts reveal much a...

Abstract This article focuses on the social and intellectual world of Francis Foster Barham (1808–1871) from the late 1830s to the mid-1850s. Barham was a prolific polymathic writer and lecturer whose oeuvre ranged from the classics to theology to esotericism, contempor...