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...works are books of theology, some of which are based upon her visions. Her surviving works also include more than a hundred letters to emperors and popes, bishops, nuns, and nobility, which reflect her single-mindedness, independent spirit, and refusal to be intimidated by power or authority. Hildegard travelled throughout southern Germany and into Switzerland and as far...

...work is £300,000 and, as a proof that the scheme can be completed for this sum, a responsible contractor has already offered to undertake the execution of it at considerably less than the amount we have specified. What is more, a party of the highest respectability has engaged to give a guarantee of six per cent for a period of twenty years, on the amount of the capital...

...work in pursuit of supplementing the experience of reading with something more immediate, sensory, and experimental. What exactly then does the writer’s desk and chair ‘mean’? What is its value? Commercially, it has lent lustre to the hotel for sure, and doubtless the suite commands a premium price. Culturally, the writer’s desk typically stages the place and end...