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...publication in April 1719, Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a commercial success. By the end of the year five further editions had been published, and pirated copies and abridgments had already begun to appear (a sure sign of real popularity). It went on to become one of the most frequently published novels in the English language, with nearly 1,200 separate...

...public (e.g., governmental building) or private (e.g., personal household)...Week 1: Introducing the Byzantine icon: 3.1 Sacred I: The Byzantine Church - According to Saint Germanos, Patriarch of Constantinople between 715 and 730, ‘the church is the earthly heaven in which the heavenly God dwells and moves’ (Acheimastou-Potamianou, 1987, p. 38). During the long life...

...public spaces such as theatres, amphitheatres and the baths where they interacted. The available evidence is rich and varied – literature in all its forms, inscriptions, epitaphs, buildings, mosaics, frescos, tombs and coins. All types of evidence have the potential to reveal something about Roman social relationships. Valerie Hope Epitaphs and gravestones of the Roman...