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...world was rapidly becoming more joined-up during this period than at any time since the heyday of the Roman Empire. Trade fostered international links across the North Sea, Baltic and beyond, and similar developments were happening as far afield as the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. This was a period in which people began to live and work in entirely new ways, and...

...world. It has been fostered in part by the SF world, who have insisted that its kind of reading is Different” (Aldiss and Wingrove 15). Even in the twenty-first century, both science fiction critics and authors continue to reinforce this generalization. A famous example is Margaret Atwood’s claim that her novels The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003)...

...world, and resolved from that moment to follow him: he was the first of his disciples, and therefore is styled by the Greeks the Protoclet, or First Called. Andrew, who loved affectionately his brother Simon, called afterwards Peter, could not rest till he had imparted to him the infinite treasure which he had discovered, and brought him to Christ, that he might also know...

...world, as focused by the campaign against slavery...Wilberforce: 1.2 Upbringing; MP for Yorkshire - William Wilberforce (Figure 1) was born in Hull, the son and grandson of substantial merchants who had made their fortune in trade between Yorkshire and the Baltic. His father died in 1768 and he subsequently went to live for a period with his uncle and aunt. Through them...