The first study to highlight the links between astrology and history in early Islam.
The collection is built around the original concept of indirectness, introduced by Jela Krecic to illuminate a neglected dimension of truth. The project brings together some of today’s most renowned thinkers and challenges them to rethink truth under 21st-century conditions.
Presents exciting new research on the key book collectors, authors and genres which rose and fell in popularity across the medieval and early modern period in Scotland.
Explores how immigrant food practices generate new political imaginaries in the shifting contours of neoliberal capitalism.
Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Demonstrates how the career of Britain’s first major Black actor, Ira Aldridge, transformed a range of dramatic genres, including tragedy, melodrama and minstrel plays.
Explores the nature of modern authoritarianism to confront and counter the increasing dangers it poses to contemporary democracies.
Offers a compelling new study of failure and neoliberalism in contemporary American literature.
Offers a new history and theory of wireless beyond 'the wireless', exploring sociotechnical imaginaries of media change.
Examines the cinematic vision and worldview of director, Greta Gerwig.
Explores the cultural and civic identity of the Imperial Greek city, examining what it meant to be ‘Greek’ in the Roman Empire.
A practical guide to the conduct of criminal cases.