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15. Painting Velvet
by Sophia Feist Cover Image & Fig. 1 – Jan van Eyck, The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele, oil on wood, 141 x 176.5 cm, Groeningemuseum, Bruges (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) One of my favorite paintings is Jan van Eyck’s The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele (1434-1436). One of my…
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16. The Museum of Broken Relationships
by Beatrice Leeming Tourists to Zagreb might be tempted by its medieval Old Town or its Gothic Cathedral. They might come for its award-winning Christmas market, or, in the summer, for re-enactments of medieval conflicts put on by the Order of The Silver Dragon. Round the corner from the players, an increasing number have headed…
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17. Two Episodes of Maritime Exorcisms in the life of Theodore of Sykeon
by Zeynep Olgun, @Fall_of_Zeynep The life of Theodore of Sykeon, an ascetic who lived in the Eastern Mediterranean around sixth-seventh centuries, was documented by his disciple George shortly after Theodore’s demise.[1] The narrative includes two intriguing episodes of exorcism involving rodents and maritime culture. To analyse these episodes, we can briefly turn our attention to…
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18. A Trip to Hong Kong’s Oldest Department Store
by Yolanda Lam With Christmas just around the corner, people are flocking into department stores to do some last-minute gift-shopping (myself included). As one traverses Central, one of the busiest urban districts in Hong Kong, one will find the first and oldest department store chains in the city – The Sincere Co. Ltd. Celebrating its…
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19. To Make Milk Punch
By Tomas Brown Recipes for milk punch are intriguingly elusive; in one early nineteenth century receipt book they are found nestled among the ‘German method of Blackening Leather’, ‘Dr Fullers Vapour for a Quincy’ and ‘Fine Red Ink’.[1] They present themselves to us pervaded by logistic and cultural incongruities. Are they recreational or medicinal? Hot…
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