A newsletter that examines illuminated medieval manuscripts, their striking imagery and the artists and scribes behind them, such as the Tondal visions and the Hortus Deliciarum. Readers get focused art-historical essays on individual manuscripts, with some content in Spanish and French as well as English.
Website: https://visions-of-manuscripts.ghost.io/
Long-form essays that read video games through folklore, medieval art, mythology, cosmology and the occult. Readers get contextual criticism that ties specific games to their historical and cultural sources.
SAUCE Journal publishes long-form essays on skateboarding by academics, filmmakers and skaters, covering its culture, spaces, media and law. Readers get personal, scholarly writing that treats skateboarding as a subject of serious cultural analysis.
Essays on the art, architecture and history of South Asia, focusing on lesser-known sites and cross-cultural connections such as Mughal Christian tombs, ancient Bairat and Indian soldiers in Persian-era Greece. Readers get first-hand site visits combined with historical context and references to the author's own scholarship.
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