History and Archaeology

Based on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans is the first study on early cinema in the region from a transnational and cross-cultural perspective.

Chinese culture, to readers of English, is somewhat veiled in mystery.

A key figure in early avant-garde cinema, Walter Ruttmann was a pioneer of experimental animation and the creative force behind one of the silent era's most celebrated montage films, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City.

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

The varied career of Adam Easton (c.

In the early 1650s Ferdinand Bol produced a series of wall-covering paintings.

In contrast to physicists, biologists already have the Theory of Everything.

What was the perception of Greece in Europe during the later nineteenth century, when the attraction of romantic philhellenism had waned?

The book identifies to what extent it is possible to speak of a democratization of knowledge in Renaissance Italy.

Medieval states are widely assumed to have lacked police forces.

What do we do when we listen?

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.

The understanding of what health is and how it can be maintained has changed through history.

Since the appearance of her early-career bestseller Gender Trouble in 1990, American philosopher Judith Butler is one of the most influential thinkers in academia.

The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international explosion of scary films dealing with ghosts.

Soeda's story provides insights into the last thousand years of Japanese history.

Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento.

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.

What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy?

Only twelve years after German women had been granted voting rights, the German medievalist Elisabeth Busse-Wilson, a first-wave feminist activist and scholar, challenged centuries of silence about violence against women by taking on the case of the most famous European saint, the young Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207-1231).

What can space tell us about our past?

This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918.

This collection brings together themes in East Asian history, diplomacy, culture and politics written by J.

The landscape of the Netherlands has been changing constantly since the end of the last ice age, some 11,700 years ago.

Doctor Who is a BBC transmedia franchise that has lasted over sixty years.

Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema portrays a group of important contemporary women filmmakers working across the Sinophone world including Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and beyond.

Transnational Play approaches gameplay as a set of practices and a global industry that includes diverse participation from players and developers located within the global South, in nations outside of the First World.

Fans of cult films don't just watch the movies they love-they frequently engage with them in other, more creative ways as well.

This book presents a detailed study of the Hucpoldings, an elite group in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Italy.

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

Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting.

Bodily suffering and patient, Christlike attitudes towards that suffering were among the key characteristics of sainthood throughout the medieval period.

The Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland represents the first study of the art of rhetoric in medieval Ireland, a culture often neglected by medieval rhetorical studies.

Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other.

Modelscapes are clusters of miniature architectural models that represent entire environments.

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

What does it mean for someone or something to be Hungarian?

In the twenty-first century horror television has spread across the digital TV landscape, garnering mainstream appeal.

In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic was the centre of the world trade in exotic drugs and spices.

Justice and injustice were subjects of ongoing debate in medieval Europe.

Albanian cinema truly represents a terra incognita for most of the world.

Since 2003 and following the U.

This study contributes to the history of social changes in Iran during the Abbasid Caliphate (AH 132-656, AD 750-1258) by foregrounding the perspective of Persian language historians - from Abu Ali Bal'ami (AH 363, AD 974), the first known Persian historian, to Atamelak Joveyni (AH 623-681, AD 1226-1283), the great historian of the Mongol Era.

While scholars have theorized major film festivals, they have ignored smaller, ephemeral, events.

Kiyonori Kanasaka, a distinguished geographer at Kyoto University, is widely recognized as Japan's leading researcher on the Victorian traveller Isabella Bird.

During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication.

The green mantle of the earth!

Through an examination of Dutch Reformed church records and theological texts, Kyle Dieleman explores the local dynamics of religious life in the early modern Dutch Republic.

Traditional scholarship on post-Roman western culture has tended to examine the ethnic identities of Goths, Franks, and similar groups while neglecting the Romans themselves, in part because modern scholars have viewed the concept of being Roman as one denoting primarily a cultural or legal affiliation.

What can space tell us about our past?