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An Overpraised Nun

Lucy Beckett HILDEGARD OF BINGEN by Fiona Maddocks Headline, 415.99, pp. 332, ISBN 0747273987 H ildegard of Bingen was a 12th-century German nun who had apocalyptic visions, was......

In Defence Of The Late Bertrand Russell

Samuel Brittan T he second volume of the biography of Bertrand Russell by Ray Monk seems to have brought out the worst in both author and most reviewers. (Bertrand Russell,......