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...business is to record what people say, but I am by no means bound to believe it – and that may be taken to apply to this book as a whole. (Herodotus 7.152; trans. de Sélincourt) So even in the fifth century BCE, history was as much about belief as about truth. You will read several ancient historians during your study of the Classical world. To explore the question of...

...business’ of heritage through the role of the World Heritage List in promoting places of national importance as tourist destinations. The next section outlines this debate and the ideas that have both fed into and developed from it, as an introduction to critical heritage studies as a field of academic research (this characterisation of the debate is strongly influenced...

...busy Venice-Candia sea route. [Described image] Figure 9 Madre della Consolazione, 16th century, tempera on panel, 24 x 20 cm (41 x 36.2 cm including modern frame). Madre della Consolazione’s characteristic features are her ‘Giottesque’ appearance (i.e., figures resembling those created by the fourteenth-century Italian painter Giotto, with the major characteristic...

...money on rich artefacts or dynastic portraits in part because they were an aspect of the social exclusiveness that a representative number of their entourage could notice and grasp. In reiterating the convention that religious art was particularly useful for those unable to read, medieval thinkers seem to have assumed that ordinary people too were capable of thoughtful...

...money for defence. So a defence force that has to rely on mirage planes that are very old would not be a very secure defence force. And so we had already stopped many aircraft going to South Africa. South Africa later made a copy of the mirage with the help from the French. But that was different to the original old ones. So we argued that if we effectively stopped all...