History and Archaeology

Die deutschen Stadte - pulsierende Zentren des Handels, Schauplatze religioser Kampfe, Wiegen burgerlicher Freiheit und kunstlerischer Blute.

By focusing on the politics of disability as a pillar of Czechoslovak identity, The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia: Segregating in the Name of the Nation reflects upon the vicissitudes of nation building over the twentieth century that led to extreme forms of institutional violence against minorities, mainly the Roma, such as forced sterilization.

This book provides an in-depth account of how judicial decisions are published and used in the Netherlands as a source of law.

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.

Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy.

As urban development in Asia has accelerated, cities in the region have become central to skateboarding culture, livelihoods, and consumption.

By the end of the fifth century, with the structural collapse of the Roman Empire in the west, Western Europe had fallen into the so-called Dark Ages.

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

Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy.

This book offers a new way of looking at Saint Thomas Aquinas-not as a living man, but as a posthumous source of relics.

In this book readers will find stories about medieval heresies and "e;magic"e; from an unusual perspective: that of food studies.

Animal spectacles are vital to a holistic appreciation of Spanish culture.

As a former colonized nation, Indonesia has a unique place in the history of photography.

Vienna, with its stunning architecture and unforgettable streetscape, has long provided a backdrop for filmmakers.

We normally think of early film as being black and white, but the first color cinematography appeared as early as the first decade of the twentieth century.

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.

In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins.

A prose work interspersed with poetry, Le Printemps d'Yver was highly popular in its day, seeing thirty editions between 1572 and 1635.

The essays in this volume explore crucial intellectual and cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.

This book is a practical and theoretical guide for anyone interested in researching popular media, popular culture, audiences, and fans.

What do we do when we listen?

The Dutch Republic around 1600 was a laboratory of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.

The seventeenth century was a time of exceptional mobility for Netherlandish artists.

Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was one of most charismatic and protean figures to emerge from the American independent film movement of the 1960s and '70s, an incredibly compelling screen presence who helped give cult classics like Easy Rider and Blue Velvet their off-kilter appeal.

From a much neglected Portuguese colony to independence, Timor-Leste travelled a belated, long and troubled journey that included a 24-year Indonesian occupation.

After war defeat in 1945, Japan underwent historic political, economic and social transformations resulting in the country's rebirth as an economic powerhouse and exemplar of liberal democracy in East Asia.

Employing a transregional and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores indigenous and black confraternities -or lay Catholic brotherhoods- founded in colonial Spanish America and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth century.

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 book approaches the manifestation and evolution of the idea of Rome as an expression of Roman patriotism and as an (urban) archetype of utopia in late Roman thought in a period extending from AD 357 to 417.

In Late Antiquity, people commonly sought to acquire hidden knowledge about the past, the present, and the future, using a variety of methods.

Sumbawa is a medium-sized island in eastern Indonesia which has a particularly interesting past.

The green mantle of the earth!

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.

This is a translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mile long Thai-Burma Railway by one of the Japanese professional engineers who was involved in its construction.

This book accounts for the outpouring of celebrations in the Habsburg Empire upon the 1657 birth of Felipe Prospero, heir to Philip IV of Spain.

Vor der zweiten Bundestagswahl 1953 besucht Dr.

Franciscan Books and their Readers explores the manuscripts written, read and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership.

Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to express and condition the social, political, and cultural values of his time.

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

If mediatization has surprisingly revealed the secret life of inert matter and the 'face of things', the flipside of this has been the petrification of living organisms, an invasion of stone bodies in a state of suspended animation.

Warfare and Politics: Cities and Government in Renaissance Tuscany and Venice brings together a group of prominent contributors to consider the topics of government and warfare in Tuscany and Venice in the Renaissance.

The Annotated Constitution of Japan: A Handbook for the first time makes the entirety of Japan's constitution accessible in English.

Considered a doyen of Meiji studies, particularly in the field of the newspaper press in Japan, former journalist Jim Huffman and H.

For centuries, archaeologists have excavated the soils of Britain to uncover finds from the early medieval past.

The question whether or not seventeenth century painters such as Rembrandt and Rubens created the paintings which were later sold under their names, has caused many a heated debate.

For women at the early modern courts, clothing and jewellery were essential elements in their political arsenal, enabling them to signal their dynastic value, to promote loyalty to their marital court and to advance political agendas.

The Work of Terrence Malick: Time-Based Ecocinema develops a timely ecocinema approach to film analysis illuminated by Benjamin's notion of the turn of time.

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

On 9 May 1950, France launched a revolutionary plan for supranational cooperation in Western Europe.

This book considers for the first time the relationship between the river environment and the economic and political structures of northern Italy in the post-Roman period.