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...family members, brief respite from the blighted new town in which they live. Common Ground Ashley, a disillusioned geography teacher, chronicles the birth of his daughter, Maggie, in letters to his globe-trotting brother, Douglas. Painting an intimate picture of his relationship with his partner, Jay, the novel offers a bleak picture of inner city life, and the couple’s...

...family in Florence (Richardson et al., 2007, pp. 291–303). Earlier written evidence that works of art were recognised as offering visual delight quite apart from function and meaning is sparse but there is a little. In a treatise written sometime between 1227 and his death in 1254, Lucas, Bishop of Tuy in Spain, reiterated the medieval convention that the purpose of...

...family but later captured and enslaved called Doña Marina. She was ‘gifted’ to Cortés and later bore him a child. This allowed him to negotiate alliances to support a challenge to Moctezuma. The Spanish-commanded force numbered around 10,000, even if Moctezuma had defeated them, he would likely have sustained large casualties and may have risked his authority and...