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Based on a non-fiction book by Judith C. Brown, “Benedetta” is the latest motion picture from Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven. It focuses on the years in which Benedetta rose to the summit of the Theatine convent in Tuscany, Italy. In the film, premiering at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, nuns […]
Miles Aldridge was born in London in 1964. He grew up accustomed to celebrity – John Lennon was a family friend, as well as Eric Clapton and Elton John. His first experience of photography was at the age of five sitting for Lord Snowden for a portrait with his father Alan Aldridge. After studying illustration […]
Flogging, an element of corporal punishment, was already practised by early humans. Sources can be found in the context of nearly all antique societies: the Sumerians did it, as did the Israelites; it was carried out in ancient India, China and Rome. Becoming particularly widespread in mediaeval times as a […]