It is time to set aside the troubled histories of past confrontations and takeovers and strive for healing and reconciliation, by advocating to open the doors of these sites to all faiths who are invested in them.

Sahar Hosseini on the Hagia Sophia and spaces of encounter

Early modern communities faced an identity crisis in which their very beings seemed constantly at-risk and in-flux. Antitheatricalists believed theater made these problems worse by turning them into a spectacle.

Krystal Marsh compares 17th Century Theater to 21st Century Comedy Central.

A central concern remains: the timing and nature of India’s encounter with modernity. Did modernity come with the East India Company or did modernity have more ‘native’ roots?

Devin Creed looks for a different modernity in the streets of New Delhi.

Chivalry is an attempt to internalize restraints so that powerful men police one another and themselves—masculinity taming the excesses of masculinity.

Kathryn Mogk reassesses chivalry amidst the Me-Too era and deepening concerns about police violence.

Ultimately, nobody is interested in hermeneutics and intertextuality for their own sake … but everyone wants to know what is real and how we should live, and if books can help us there, interpretation becomes intensely interesting.

Kathryn Mogk rediscovers reading with Augustine.

The windows at Conques, seen from the outside, seem to be walled with a metal sheet.

Donato Loia examines the old and the new with Pierre Soulages’s modernist windows in a Romanesque church.

Dark as this may seem, it opens the door to the only true agency that we have in such circumstances: the choice between hope and despair, between faith and doubt.

Micah Heinz reads Albert Camus during the Coronavirus.

Tracing art’s genealogy, we find that she is not the sister of religion, an equal rival, but a daughter.

Kathryn Mogk reads Station Eleven during the coronavirus.

The love of one’s neighbor—or of the stranger, the enemy, the other, or humanity in general—has a complex genealogy in the Christian ‘West.’

Sarah Louise MacMillen writes on the genealogy of neighborly love and solidarity.

For T.S. Eliot, Modernist literature was novel in form, not concept.

Nayeli Riano considers the possibility of a modern society with a living tradition.

An artist in love with and enmeshed in a tradition…

Jessica Sweeney critiques the excessive emphasis on originality in modern art.

Tim Barr assembles articles for living during quarantine.

Kirsten Hall reviews the newest version of Emma and questions different ways of using humor.

Kirsten Hall explores the components of modern romance from Samuel Johnson to Noah Baumbach.

Kirsten Hall looks at the popular Netflix show and our historical fixation with the “rake”

Kirsten Hall traces discourses about the secular and religious In Joseph Addison’s tragedy, Cato

Kirsten Hall analyzes Jonathan Swift’s satires and the tensions between certainty and doubt in the Enlightenment.

Terence Sweeney allegorizes Magnasco’s painting, Satire on a Nobleman in Misery and finds a typology of genealogical approaches: Netzschean, Englightment, and Christian

Timothy Barr explores a hidden genealogy between two quotes from distant historical periods

Timothy Barr juxtaposes two quotes from distant historical periods