This path-breaking collection offers an integrative model for understanding health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean from 1250 to 1550.
This book examines actual processes of experiencing the imagined community, exploring its emotive force in a number of case studies.
René Grotenhuis analyses policies intended to bring stability to fragile states and shows how they ignore the question of what gives people a sense of belonging to a nation-state.
This book is an introduction to Intercultural Communication (IC) that takes into account... Læs mere
This book explores how the Spanish kingdoms were highly influenced by the arrival of the Dominican and Franciscan friars in the thirteenth century.
The book addresses key questions about ancient humans, embryonic development, bipedalism, hair loss, the relationship between language and... Læs mere
David Duindam examines how the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theatre in Amsterdam used for the registration and deportation of nearly 50,000 Jews, became a memorial museum, and how it will continue to be a meaningful site for future generations.
Drawing on a wide array of textual and material primary sources, this book assesses the ways that gender and other categories of difference affect understandings of time.
This study uncovers the active role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture. Their preferred art, Barbara J. Harris shows, reveals their responses to the religious revolution and signifies their preferred identities.
This book analyses the manuscripts of the Cîteaux, copied and illustrated during a period of intense reform at the monastery, that demonstrate the interdependence between art, liturgy, and reform.
In the investigation Exploring the Boundaries of Big Data The Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) offers building blocks for developing a regulatory approach to Big Data.
This book explores archival restoration, colour film technology, colour theory, and experimental film alongside beautifully saturated images of silent cinema.