History and Archaeology

Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is best known for his natural philosophical and mathematical works.

Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European literature by authors including Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Holderlin, Pierre Corneille, Arnold Schoenberg, Cesare Pavese, and Elio Vittorini.

Why do we attach so much value to sites of Holocaust memory, if all we ever encounter are fragments of a past that can never be fully comprehended?

In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zurcher travelled to China for the first time, a country he had been studying since 1947.

The province of Baetica, in present-day Spain, was one of the most important areas in the Roman Empire in terms of politics, economics, and culture.

Videogame history is not just a history of one successful technology replacing the next.

What is Europe?

This study aims to elucidate concepts of castle in the Netherlands, England and Ireland in both past en present times.

This collection of essays investigates signs of toleration, recognition, respect and other positive forms of interaction between and within religious groups of late antiquity.

Abel Gance's silent masterpiece, Napoleon, was given a limited run on its debut in 1927, but soon afterwards distributors in France and America, unwilling to deal with its nine-hour running time, subjected it to savage cuts - with devastating results for the movie and for film history.

Japan is widely regarded as having a unique culture and a strong national identity.

Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, Italian, English, Spanish, and German: those are the eight languages in which Dutch Golden Age poet Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) wrote his poetry and correspondence.

The author's investigation of early-modern Javanese law reveals that judicial authority does not come from the contents of legal titles or juridical texts, but from legal maxims and variations thereof.

This volume takes a fresh look at the various aesthetics emerging globally in the early sound film era, with a focus on the films' fundamentally experimental and inventive character.

Andrzej Zulawski (1940-2016) was born in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) and educated in Paris.

Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding England's earliest global trading ventures.

This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West.

Isidore of Seville (560-636) was a crucial figure in the preservation and sharing of classical and early Christian knowledge.

All the world's a stage - literally so, given the ubiquitous presence of webcams recording daily life in cities.

The Asian Migrant's Body: Emotion, Gender and Sexuality brings together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience, think about, perceive and utilize their bodies as part of the journeys they have embarked on.

This pioneering collection of nine original essays carves out a new conceptual path in the field by theorizing the ways in which the language of games and warfare inform and illuminate each other in the early modern cultural imagination.

It is 1942.

American folk music has long presented a problematic conception of authenticity, but the reality of the folk scene, and its relationship to media, is far more complicated.

Was there experimental cinema behind the Iron Curtain?

After the First World War, the effects of financial crisis could be felt in all corners of the newly formed Weimar Republic.

In the Dutch Republic, in its Baroque forms of art, two aesthetic formal modes, theatre and drama, were dynamically related to two political concepts, event and moment.

The sixteenth century was a period of crisis in the Catholic Church.

This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspects and outlining the social, political and ideological implications of the constructions and narrations of the past.

Louis Van Gasteren was one of the most prolific filmmakers in the history of the Netherlands, with a resume that includes nearly eighty documentaries and two feature films-to say nothing of artworks and books.

This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede.

Reflecting Jerusalem in the Medieval Czech Lands maps the reception, reflection, and translation of Jerusalem in medieval Czech lands.

As Cardinal Hugo and as pope, Gregory was one of the dominant figures in the history of the papacy of the High Middle Ages.

Raphael's Poetics applies strategies of interpretation implicit in antique poetry to the visual art of the Renaissance, concentrating on Raphael's Roman works and their cultural context.

During the course of Dutch physicist and Spinoza Prize-winner Ad Lagendijk's long and influential career, he has published more than 300 articles, supervised over thirty doctoral dissertations, and given countless presentations and conference addresses.

When the Allied Forces arrived in the Netherlands after Operation Market Garden, the country's long-awaited liberation from National Socialist occupation finally came in the summer of 1945.

Movie Circuits: Curatorial Approaches to Cinema Technology attempts to grasp media in the making.

Was there experimental cinema behind the Iron Curtain?

This book offers a unique overview on the career and work on Benedict XII, the third pope of Avignon.

Social media platforms have been pivotal in redefining the conduct of contemporary society.

This book brings together studies from Georgia, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Korea, and the UK which explore links between policy and practice in language teaching in the twentieth century.

This book deals with a fascinating and original claim in 16th-century Europe.

Gregory of Tours was a bishop of late antiquity who was famously devoted to promoting the efficacy of saintly powers.

Agatha Christie's work has been adapted extensively resulting in transformations that are both textual and cultural.

Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE.

Tradition, translation, and transcription in Henrician verse functioned together in systems of communally created, coded position-taking.

This collection departs from the observation that online forms of communication-the email, blog, text message, tweet-are actually haunted by old epistolary forms: the letter and the diary.

With the addition of a contextualized introduction, here is the first annotated translation of the eighth- century clan history T?

The history of official relations between Russia and Japan encompasses a period of a little more than one hundred and fifty years, but stretch back unofficially for at least double that amount of time.

In 1611, the seventeen-year-old Gustav Adolf ascended the throne of Sweden.

The Alexiad, written in the twelfth century by a Byzantine princess, Anna Komnene, tells the story of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, offering accounts of its political and military history, including its involvement with the First Crusade.