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“... This summer​ , a new monument appeared in Budapest’s Liberty Square. Amid a copse of truncated white marble pillars stands the metal figure of a slender young man. Wrapped from hips to feet in windswept drapery, he opens his arms to the sky. In his right hand he bears the orb of political authority surmounted by the Hungarian double-barred cross ...”

“... a warrior against Muslims, immigrants and secessionist movements.His deification is paradoxical, Nora Berend argues, for what we know of the historical Rodrigo Díaz suggests the opposite: he was scarcely motivated by religion at all, or by patriotism. Exiled by King Alfonso VI of León and Castile in 1081, Rodrigo turned up at the Muslim court of ...”

“... Story of Global Ivory in the Premodern Era’). There are problems with the concept, of course: Nora Berend has argued that the term ‘Middle Ages’ is Eurocentric, and that ‘global’ is anachronistic when applied to the period.One of the structures that underpinned medieval European culture was multilingualism. Petrarch, Dante and Boccaccio all ...”