This book outlines major trends in language use by early modern diplomats, mainly in the European context, through a series of case studies and overviews of regional diplomatic traditions.
A History of Medieval Astrology analyses the contributions of the Kraków Astronomy and Astrology School, part of the University of Kraków – one of the fastest growing universities in fifteenth-century Europe.
This collection of nine essays presents new research exploring the significance and forms of labour involved in food production across the early modern world from c. 1500 to 1800.
This book highlights significant social and political developments in the late antique Mediterranean world. It will appeal to scholars and... Læs mere
This interdisciplinary volume offers an essential and decolonizing understanding of digital media cultures and histories from an African perspective.
This book offers a key to a sophisticated analysis of television’s economic and institutional diversification in the contemporary platform ecology.
This book investigates the “Golden Age” of Yugoslav cinema and sheds light on it from a fresh... Læs mere
This book is a pioneer study of the image of the Jew in Dutch cinema within the context of national cinema and identity.
Coexistence in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies offers the first comparative study of... Læs mere
This volume contributes to debates about China’s influence, and explores three themes in the context of global China: the... Læs mere
This book provides the first comprehensive reassessment in over 30 years of the Danelaw, an area of north-eastern... Læs mere
This book examines how Christian writers portrayed the conversion of Slavs beyond the Elbe River—a complex, centuries-long process spanning the tenth through twelfth centuries.