The Arts

Explores the development of nineteenth-century performance copyright laws which shape how we define and value drama and music.

The first substantial study of Victoria''s Requiem, among the most prominent Renaissance musical works, encompassing its genesis, style, and impact.

Detailed study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

Studies the interrelation of sight, touch, and the imagination in ancient and medieval Greek theories of perception and cognition.

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

The first major study to propose an analytical approach to Purcell''s music beginning from contemporary compositional aims and techniques.

An up-to-date survey of Shakespeare''s King Lear on screen and the aesthetic, social and political issues raised by screen versions.

Rethinks and retells the history of music in sixteenth-century Ferrara, putting women, of the court and convent, at the narrative centre.

The book traces nearly two thousand years of architectural transformations to St Paul''s Basilica, one of Rome''s principal churches.

The reuse of architectural and sculptural materials (spoliation) was common centuries earlier than previously realized, during the Roman empire.

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

Explores the profession of singing, operatic culture, and the representation of female performers on the nineteenth century French stage.

The book explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, arguing that people used images to assert the value of artworks.

Reveals a rich cinematic history, discussing Hamlet films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

Examines Christopher Marlowe and his work in the overlapping contexts of the professional theatre and the book trade.

Provides the first formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest.

The first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett''s prose and theatre.

The first major study of Saint-Saëns''s stage music, timed to coincide with revivals of his operas on stage.

Far from being a Judeo-Christian invention, apocalyptic thought had its roots in the ancient Near East and was expressed in its art.

Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.

Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.

A definitive handbook to photographing the night sky using DSLR cameras, including projects for both beginners and more advanced enthusiasts.

This book presents a new perspective on the Italian Renaissance court by examining the circulation, collection and exchange of art objects.

Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.

A history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage focusing on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance.

Shows how Joyce''s narrative styles and his protagonists'' perceptions are shaped by visual technologies, including dioramas, stereoscopes, mutoscopes and film.

The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.

Explores the interplay between law and religion in the area of hate speech, whether religion is the target or source.

Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a ''sister-art'' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

The first study in English of Vitruvius'' De architectura to take the work seriously as a literary and cultural product.

This book charts Messiaen''s transformation of birdsong into music and its development into a major work of the twentieth century.

Argues that Roman expansion in Italy was accomplished more by means of negotiation among local elites than through military conquest.

Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

By taking a look at colonization and subalternity, this book offers a different view on Classical Greece and its modern legacy.

A varied and wide-ranging collection in which the celebrated post-war composer Peter Maxwell Davies presents his work and his opinions.

A systematic and detailed analysis of the work of this extremely popular composer, providing description, context, examples, and commentary.

This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

This book explores the nature of creativity in the European Bronze Age through developments in pottery, textiles, and metalwork.

Explores the meanings of the term ''author'' for seventeenth-century German musicians, examining how compositions were made and used.

This extraordinary selection of objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds illuminates the rich cultures of medieval history.

Demonstrates how ancient Roman mural paintings stood at the intersection of contemporary social, ethical, and aesthetic concerns.

The guitar is the most played instrument in the West.

Portrays Schoenberg''s atonal music as successions of motives and pitch-class sets that flesh out ''musical idea'' and ''basic image'' frameworks.

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

Redefines musical analysis for a period that marks the beginnings of composition as we know it now.

Women and Microfinance in the Global South is a grounded exploration of the intersections of neoliberal ideology and feminism.

A unique look at how cinema shaped the cosmopolitan society in Tehran through cultural exchanges between Iran and the world.

Explores the complex relationship between art and religious belief in this important genre of painting.