Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning.
First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected works in over one hundred years, with major new discoveries of authorship and attribution.
This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.
An overview of British prize law from the late seventeenth century to the twentieth century, focusing especially on how prize law disputes were handled in the era of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
Explores how the concepts 'risk' and 'benefit' can operate as analytic tools across the medicine/drug divide, allowing new narratives, clearer understanding, and bridging the gap between licit and illicit.
This 2-volume set examines African intellectual traditions as a resource to decolonize African Studies, this book argues that indigenous methods and knowledge are essential for studying Africa's diverse peoples and histories.
Examines American journalists' and media companies' roles in Hitler's Germany, reigniting the debate on the relationship between political power and the media.
A study of clerical reaction to the sizeable number of Catholics who outwardly conformed to Protestantism in late... Læs mere
Provides the English-speaking reader with a comprehensive guide to the fiction of Alfred Döblin, a major figure in German and European literary modernism.
The first fully annotated scholarly edition and masterful new translation of Wagner's autobiography, revealing the composer's self-fashioning and mythmaking.
Examines how the Middle Ages is reimagined in Japanese manga and related media, from berserkr and Bushido baseball to Arthurian knights and Valkyries.
Offers new readings of Mandeville's Travels in its original historical context, in its textual history and in the present day.