This volume engages with a range of important debates including: the relationship between war and state... Læs mere
The book identifies to what extent it is possible to speak of a democratization of knowledge in Renaissance Italy.
This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered.
When the mind turns more than one would wish towards questions of – as W.G. Sebald puts it – the “natural history of destruction”, comparative... Læs mere
The goal of the volume is to approach Visigothic customs not as an uncritical adoption and imitatio of contemporary Roman models (an acculturation model), but as unique interpretations of a common pool of symbols, practices, and institutions that formed the legacy of Rome. T
This book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics.
The paradox of ornament and monstrosity launches an array of thought-provoking perspectives on sixteenth-century visual art by targeting its ambiguous artificiality and moments of anxiety.
This book explores the position of art and artists under a number of different political regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, traveling around the world to consider how art and politics have interacted and influenced each other in different conditions.
This book offers the reader an ideal introduction to the exciting new field of social software. It shows in detail the many ways in which the seemingly abstract sciences of logic and computer science can be put to use to analyse and solve contemporary social problems.
Leading international scholars present analysis and case studies from different cultural settings, East and West, exploring... Læs mere