This volume explores how health was understood and practiced in the early modern Nordic region, with a focus on Sweden, including Finland.
The Middle Dutch term schaec referred to abduction with marital intent. This book explores this phenomenon to understand wider attitudes towards marriage-making in the fifteenth-century Low Countries.
Instead of asking what makes the internet or new media “Chinese,” this volume situate contemporary entanglements of cultural and digital practices within specific historical, social, and discursive contexts.
Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China explores the role played by woman, and their visual representations, in introducing modern design and modern ways of living to China.
This book examines how social media platforms amplify extreme viewpoints and agitated content that generates disproportionate engagement.
Examining the functions of Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer' strange and new subject matter, Goldstein situates his paintings and those of his closest Italian follower, Vincenzo Campi, in the physical space of the dining room.
This volume provides important insights it draws the outlines of a new field of scholarship at the crossroads of the social histories of punishment and labour and on the ways through which they can be studied.
Processes of making in early modern Europe were both tacit and embodied.This volume focuses on the body of the... Læs mere
This book examines Roman façades decorated with fresco and sgraffito between the 15th and 16th centuries that once enveloped the central rioni of... Læs mere
After WWII, cinema was everywhere: in movie theatres, public squares, factories, schools, trial courts, trains,... Læs mere
The study adds a new focus on female letter writing, the formation of social networks, and the gender dynamics at play in the households and communities of early modern Florence and Tuscany.
Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that is emerging from decades of armed conflict.