The relationships between Roman emperors and their objects of desire, male and female, are well attested. The salacious nature of this evidence means that it is often omitted from mainstream...
The poet Petrarch imagined that the hopeless but pure love of a woman could lead a man to heaven. In sixteenth-century England Edmund Spenser wrote poetry in the petrarchan tradition while...
An Oxford historian draws on the full range of historical sources and interviews with Frenchmen from all walks of life to present a sweeping study of all aspects of French life