The catastrophic Sicilian earthquake of 1693 led to the rebuilding of over 60 towns in the island's south-west. This is the first book-length study in English of this interesting area of early modern architecture.
Exhibiting Antonio Canova: Display and the Transformation of Sculptural Theory argues that the display of Canova’s sculptures in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries acted as a catalyst for discourse across a broad range of subjects.
This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence.
Vietnam: A War, Not a Country explores the conflicting ways in which the American-Vietnamese War has been collectively remembered and represented from the perspective of the war’s three primary belligerents: the Vietnamese communists, the South Vietnamese, and the Americans.
Taking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms.
The essential objective of this study is to unpack the complicity between historians and secularization theory in the... Læs mere
Anabel Thomas investigates an unfinished commission for a fresco by Francesco di Bartolomeo Alfei in 1454, through extensive analysis of previously unpublished records, examining Alfei's relationships with Sienese society members, fellow artisans, and government officials.
Based on rich documentation this work proposes an history of disabled people experiences, theorized as lived disability that allows us to rethink the place of the (disabled) body in the Christian thoughts. It also offers a sensitive history of the clerics' bodies.
This collection of essays moves plants to the foreground of analysis and brings together some of the rich and innovative ways that scholars are expanding the discussion of plants and botany in Shakespeare’s writings
This book offers you an introduction to comparative law: a selection of European countries, such as the UK, France and Germany are covered along with Belgium and the Netherlands and... Læs mere
This is a revealing book exploring the persistent lack of diversity and equity within many organisations. At the same time, it is a... Læs mere
In the book, the author asks how traditional music, as framed within contextual Moluccan theology, is interrelated with lived religion.