A celebrity in his own day, who gave lectures dressed as Napoleon or seated on the back of an elephant, Ramón Gómez de la Serna is the most representative writer of the interwar Spanish avant-garde.
This study takes the sword beyond its functional role as a tool for killing, considering it as a cultural artifact , and the broader meaning and significance it had to its bearer.
Demonstrates the vital role Sunday schools played in forming and sustaining faith before, during, and after the First World War for British populations both at home and abroad.
The first study to explore the crucial influence of Kurt Weill on operas and musicals by Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein.
Elverhoj was an Arts and Crafts colony established on the picturesque west shore of the Hudson River in 1912 by Danish American artists and craftsmen led by Anders Andersen.
An interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature.
How ideas and ideals of an imagined, protean, national Middle Ages have once again become a convergence point for anxieties about politics, history and cultural identity in our time - and why.
New insights into the changing human attitudes towards wild nature through the depiction of wolves in human culture and heritage.
Sheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change.