During the last two decades the judiciary has come to play an increasingly important political role in Latin America.
Since the Enlightenment, French theatre has occupied a prominent place within French thought, society and culture, but as a subject of study it has remained a purview of theatre historians, literary scholars and aestheticians.
This book examines Latin America's history of engagement with cosmopolitanisms as a manner of asserting a genealogy that links cultural critique in Latin America and the United States.
In a modern Europe, even with 900 years of history and learning behind it, the European Research University faces major challenges on multiple fronts. This book maps out both the present and the long-term issues that the European Research University must now tackle.
Undressed for Success collects extensive primary source research - newspapers, journals, trade publications,... Læs mere
This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a... Læs mere
Chronicles the history of the Papal Conclave process for selecting a new pope and traces the history of papal elections and the transfer of power in the Vatican.
This study traces the origins of European modernism in Nineteenth-century Paris, examining every major avant-garde movement that sprung from this... Læs mere
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Gertrude Stein's dramatic texts rely on the absence of many landmarks of traditional theatre, but absence is a very difficult thing to stage.
Celebrated goldsmith and sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) fits the conventional image of a Renaissance man: a skillful virtuoso and courtier;