Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
It is with a lot of pleasure that I can finally give the announcement. My article “The Inquisitor’s creatures: the historical roots of the witch trope and its evolution over the centuries” is going to appear in the non-fiction book…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read• Open to a random page• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page• BE…
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I have already talked about this interesting and well-researched historical series on the Roman Empire, which devoted the first season to Emperor Commodus (you remember Gladiator, right? I reviewed S1 here) and the second to Julius Ceasar (here‘s the review)….
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read• Open to a random page• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page• BE…
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The meme The Friday Face-Off was originally created by Books by Proxy. Each week bloggers showcase books with covers centred around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming themes. Join in the fun each Friday…
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I was since the beginning not that keen to watch this movie, for a fairly good reason. Having researched the historical period and the family Mary belonged to (the Guise) for a long time, I was always unhappy with the…
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This relatively unknown movie, right now available on Netflix, was a pleasant surprise for many reasons -the first being that it is not what you could expect from the title and the blurb: “A father and son, both coroners, are…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read• Open to a random page• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page• BE…
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You will remember I have done a quick survey a few weeks ago about some regular content to add to this blog. First of all, thank you to everybody who replied, either by comments, by Twitter, or by email. Much…
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It is not long ago that I have joined the meme The Friday Face-Off, which was originally created by Books by Proxy. Each week bloggers showcase books with covers centred around a weekly theme. You can visit Lynn’s Books for a list of upcoming…
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