José Eduardo dos Santos, long-serving Angolan dictator, has died
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger
The time of the bill
Kathimerini
The Last Best Hope?: Understanding America from the Outside In: The Robert E. Lee episode
The Last Best Hope
Life After DPIR: Taylor Grossman
Reformed but not converted: Paolo Sarpi, the English mission in Venice and conceptions of religious change
Abstract
Taking as its starting point the well-known English effort to ‘convert’ Venice to Protestantism in the wake of the Venetian Interdict controversy (1606–7), this article explores the ways in which early modern conceptions of conversion varied according to context. Drawing on evidence relating to Venice, England, Ireland and the Jesuit missions to China, it traces how divergent understandings of religious change shaped – and were shaped by – confessional controversy.
Literature and Political Thought: A Symposium
Hertford College invites you to a symposium on the connections between literature and political thought. The day will address a number of related themes: the civic value and limitations of literature; how political practices – from democracy to liberalism – condition or imperil certain forms of art; the role of the literary within political argument; the extent to which literature functions as a distinctive form of political thought.