While the disability rights movement of recent decades has a rich and well-documented history, it is a history mostly focused on the Global North. Disability in Africa presents an interdisciplinary ……続きを見る
Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition.
The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of inq……続きを見る
West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army explores the complex and constantly changing experience of West African soldiers under British command in Nigeria, the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Sierra……続きを見る
The Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging their ability to lead has persisted for centuries, not least in Germany. Even today, resistance to women holding power is emb……続きを見る
An exciting new approach to one of the most important texts of medieval Europe.
The story of the Trojan War has been told and retold across the ages, from Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid to recent……続きを見る
In this definitive study of the African diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world.
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Explores the history of Britain's colonial army in West Africa, especially the experiences of ordinary soldiers recruited in the region.
West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army explores the……続きを見る
An examination of English verse translations of Beowulf, including Seamus Heaney's version alongside other influential renditions.
A senior scholar writing here at the height of his powers and bring……続きを見る
The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultura……続きを見る
Awareness of the significance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has recently grown, due to the promotional efforts of UNESCO and its Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural He……続きを見る
The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of inquisition. Its coercive power rested on its ability to control information and to produce authoritative……続きを見る
Definitions of key words and terms for the study of medievalism.
The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-di……続きを見る
Fresh examinations of the role of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice and how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion and identity.
The important and ever-shift……続きを見る
'An exceptionally significant monograph, and without doubt one of the most important to appear in the field of Restoration history in the last twenty years. Mark Goldie has done more than anyone els……続きを見る
Two hundred years after his death, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) continues to resonate as a fascinating, ambivalent, and polarizing figure. Differences of opinion as to whether Bonaparte should be ……続きを見る
By exploring the concept of the "tender gaze" in German film, theater, and literature, this volume's contributors illustrate how perspective-taking in works of art fosters empathy and prosocial beha……続きを見る
This collection aims to explore new perspectives on the British and Irish conventual, mendicant and monastic movements in mainland Europe and rediscover their roles and wider impact within early mod……続きを見る
Wide-ranging essays on intangible cultural heritage, with a focus on its negotiation, its value, and how to protect it.
Awareness of the significance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has recent……続きを見る
Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.
Many existing studies on the role of women in the Second World War ……続きを見る
John Skelton is a central literary figure and the leading poet during the first thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging and even contradictory for modern audiences.
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This monograph focuses on the current boom in Indigenous contemporary art in Brazil, exploring in particular the way that this work interfaces with the art world through exhibitions, and the scope t……続きを見る
Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religious and secular activity in the aftermath of the Pr……続きを見る
Examines the pursuit of orthodoxy, and its consequences for the history of Christianity.
Christianity is a hugely diverse and quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless set ……続きを見る
One of the most important medieval writers studied in historical and literary context.
Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important an……続きを見る
Mark Goldie's authoritative and highly readable introduction to the political and religious landscape of Britain during the turbulent era of later Stuart rule.
An exceptionally significant monograph……続きを見る
The important and ever-shifting role of medicinal plants in medieval science, art, culture, and thought, both in the Latin Western medical tradition and in Byzantine and medieval Arabic medicine, is……続きを見る
The first English-language study devoted to Hölderlin's novel in three decades, this book reveals Hyperion's literary and philosophical richness and its complex ties with politics, choreography, and……続きを見る
Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Tourette's, multiple sclerosis, stroke: all are neurological illnesses that create dysfunction, distress, and disability. With their symptoms ranging from impaired movement……続きを見る
The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, oth……続きを見る
Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical and anthropological knowledge missing from conventional sources, and as micro-histories, provide a valuable source……続きを見る
