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“... and glum) found in the bedchamber of Bess of Hardwick. In This Orient Isle, Jerry Brotton sets out to show that ‘Islam in all its manifestations – imperial, military, cultural, theological and commercial – is part of the national story of England.’ He does this, in part, by turning popular conceptions of the ‘sceptred ...”

“... of the four cardinal directions as fixed or natural concepts begins to unravel; where, as Jerry Brotton writes in his history of the compass, we encounter the paradox of directions that ‘appear to be real and natural’ yet are ‘invented and cultural’ – rooted more in identity, ideology and theology than in geography. Well, to some ...”