400pp. Allen Lane. £25.

Frances Tanzer’s innovative and insightful approach to the postwar cultural reinvention of Vienna focuses on artists, exhibitions, cafés, cabarets, comedy and the presence of Jews – real and ephemeral ...

In the late ninth century, an anonymous scribe in Aquitaine compiled a collection of thirty-one Latin poems. Among them is a lament by the Frankish poet Angelbert, accompanied by an early form of ...