This first history of Cologne available in English challenges received notions of late Roman ethnic identities, a Dark Age collapse of urban life, devastating Viking and Magyar incursions, and the origins of medieval urban government.
This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place is an ethnography of culture and politics in Monyul, a Tibetan Buddhist cultural region in west Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India.
This volume traces the concept of grammar chronologically from Antiquity through contemporary language pedagogy.
The ten essays in this book engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia.
Commemorating John Moorman's immense contribution to Franciscan history across five decades, the essays in this collection reflect upon Moorman's diverse writings on biography, hagiography, history, art, and prosopography.
This book offers a pioneering study of Asian cultures that officially escaped from French colonisation but nonetheless were steeped in French civilisation in the colonial era and had heavily French-influenced, largely francophone literatures.
This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the evolving taste for Bolognese art during the seventeenth century, both within and outside Bologna itself, based on new archival research and also exploring issues of gender, class, and regional preferences during the Seicento.
This book explores nanotechnology, a rapidly evolving and growing field with applications in a large number of areas.
The book analyses migrant experiences of illegality in Turkey and Morocco by taking into account how both countries responded to increasing pressure by the European Union to govern irregular migration within their territories.
This essay collection features innovative scholarship on women artists and patrons in the Netherlands 1500-1700.
This book applies theoretical insights from the work of philosophers such as Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, and Michel Foucault to the Sri Lankan context to examine the conflicting narratives relating to the counter-terrorism laws produced by both sides in the conflict.