The 550-year-old Vatican Library was, until recently, a highly restricted scholarly repository of ancient scrolls, maps, coins, art works and priceless illuminated manuscripts.
The English-language press remains highly influential; scholarly publication is predominantly in English (almost exclusively so in science); and many Indians are devotees of literature in English (much of it written by Indians), as well as of English-language film, radio, television, popular music, and theatre.
Future studies might focus on testing whether other aspects - for example, prestigious academic awards, membership in highly selective scholarly societies, the impact of the work in the area of higher education and outside academia - raise the likelihood of being included into Wikipedia.
They expect it to include biographies of the significant men and women of the present as well as those of the past, and they take it for granted that the alphabetically arranged contents will have been written in their own language by many people and will have been edited by a highly skilled and scholarly staff; nevertheless, not one of these ingredients has remained the same throughout the ages.
Yeats came from the bardic tradition, in which bards were a professional caste of scholarly, highly trained craftsmen.
Economic & Political weekly has a scholarly but highly readable look (PDF) at the legacy of the 1971 war for independence.
"Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary" tells the same story as Winchester's book, and is both scholarly and highly readable.
Scholarly and highly religious, Henry was also mentally unstable, and was taken prisoner and then deposed by his cousin who became Edward IV.
"Time," Chopin wrote, "is the best censor .Adam Zamoyski's significantly updated biography of Chopin (to coincide with the bicentenary of his birth on February 22nd) is a scholarly yet highly readable account of the Polish composer's life.
