You may not hear the outdated term “dead peasant” insurance very often, but it describes a type of life insurance practice that is still used by corporations. Corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) is ...
Winter in a peasant village, painted by the Limbourg brothers and published in the medieval illuminated manuscript ‘Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.’ Pierce Archive LLC/Buyenlarge via Getty Images ...
In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture. By Fintan O’Toole Fintan O’Toole is the author of “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History ...
WHY Reymont rather than Hardy? Everyone is asking this question concerning the last winner of the Nobel Prize. And naturally: the pictures of peasant life given by the two have many points in common.