Welcome one and all to the hundred-and-seventh volume of the Areopagus. Arriving as it does, in a time so auspiciously lovely, love must be our theme. Though Valentine’s Day is a week (or more) past, that’s only according to the Gregorian Calendar; by the Julian Calendar (used far longer, and by most of the people mentioned in these newsletters!) today is only the 12th February, and so Valentine’s Day is yet to come. Love always finds a way.
What awaits? Azerbaijani opera, life in Medieval Norfolk (told by the people who lived it), a painting that resides on the fault-line between two epochs (plus a little Montaigne), and the world’s most charming hospital. Through each of these we will investigate different kinds of love: Mystical, Familial, Educational, and Charitable.
After those first four sections on Music, Historical Figures, Painting, and Architecture, I have replaced this instalment’s final three sections (usually Rhetoric, Writing, and the Seventh Plinth) with an essay about l…
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