“Compelle intrare”: since the time of St Augustine, St Luke’s words in the parable of the Banquet have served as a justification for forced conversion to Christianity. Challenging this tradition, in 1686 Pierre Bayle denounced how a literal interpretation of the parable had led to a long line of crimes, and argued that “nothing is more abominable than obtaining conversion by coercion”. In recent decades, scholarly research on conversion in the Early Modern Age has increasingly focused on i...

ArteMorbida Textile Arts Magazine is a quarterly bilingual Italian and English editorial project dedicated to the varied panorama of contemporary textile arts. The magazine is designed and created with the aim of collecting and reporting on the highlights and latest trends in the sector, encouraging and facilitating the dissemination of the culture of Fiber Art, stimulating the interest of the public and promoting the recognition of textiles as an autonomous means...

What does Christmas look like in a war zone, on a crowded migrant boat, in a silent monastery, or under the neon of a sleepless city?Christmas Across the World takes you through 100 cities on five continents, each captured on a single Christmas Eve. From Belfast to Bethlehem, Seoul to San Sebastián, Miami to Mogadishu, these stories follow detectives and monks, migrants and musicians, lovers, widows, rebels, and exiles as they face the hardest questions of all: Who am I wit...