Dreamers Rise

One hundred days ago I set myself the task of reading The Decameron at the rate of precisely one tale a day, and this morning I finished i...

I've never read The Decameron before, but coming across vivid passages from Boccaccio's own introduction to the work quoted in the ...

The Plague: During all the late summer and throughout the autumn there could daily be seen moving along the road skirting the cliffs above t...

Ralph of Shrewsbury, Bishop of Bath and Wells, January 1349: The contagious pestilence of the present day, which is spreading far and wide, ...