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...changing cultural-historical context, which will help us to make sense of a text, but also of reading with more awareness of what the process of reading involves. In order to help us to think about how our reading may be influenced by our conventions and assumptions, I would like briefly to consider a modern novel, which raises these issues quite sharply. Activity 1 Here...

...changes in Latin, according to the role of the word in the sentence, just to make life difficult for schoolchildren); ‘ad ’ means ‘to’ or ‘towards’; and ‘in’ means ‘in’. ‘Jus’ is sometimes spelled with an ‘I’, but however it is spelled, the word is conventionally pronounced softly, with a ‘y’ sound at the start. For ease of reference I will...

...changed the prevailing and long-standing anonymity of the Byzantine artist into eponymous appreciation. Fame for the majority of Byzantine artists was restricted to God: they were content with the knowledge that He ‘[Lord] knows their names’ – a phrase which describes a belief that, to a certain extent, may account for the shortage of named artists in Byzantium....