Irina Dumitrescu
Irina Dumitrescu is an essayist and professor of medieval English literature at the University of Bonn.
The optical allusions of Constantin Brancusi
Identifying the inspirations for the Romanian sculptor’s enigmatic works remains quite the puzzle
12 Jun 2024
The Norman conquest of the European imagination
It’s hard to say who, exactly, the Normans were – but even harder to make them out as a model migrants and proto-Europeans as a string of recent exhibitions has tried to do
29 Aug 2023
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