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This volume brings together five essays that represent the latest directions in the study of geography in classical antiquity. Arranged chronologically, these contributions cover several hundred years of ancient geographical scholarship, ranging from ancient Mesopotamia and the prehistoric New World to the Roman Empire, and deal with topics ......
In this book, Gail Orgelfinger examines the ways in which English historians and illustrators depicted Joan of Arc over a period of four hundred years, from her capture in 1429 to the early nineteenth century.
The variety of epithets attached to Joan of Arcfrom witch and Medean virago to missioned Maid and ......
In Textual Spaces, Richard E. Keatley examines how French travelers experienced, consumed, and represented Italian space during the early modern period. This study digs beneath the façade of leisurely travel literature to unearth a complex web of rhetorical, sociological, and political values that conditioned and ......
Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain
In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue.
Volume II: Excavations Outside the Medieval Town Walls
Reports findings from the 1996, 2002, 2006, 2012, 2013, and 2017 excavation seasons at the Apollonia-Arsuf archaeological site, located on a fossilized sandstone dune ridge on the Mediterranean coast of Israel.
Assyriological and Biblical Studies in Honor of Jack Murad Sasson
To honor Jack Murad Sasson,distinguished scholar of theancient Near East, thirty-fiveof his longtime colleagues andfriends have collaborated toproduce this volume.
From the pundits to the polls, nearly everyone seems to agree that US politics have rarely been more fractious, and calls for a return to “civil discourse” abound. Yet it is also true that the requirements of polite discourse effectively silence those who are not in power, gaming the system against the disenfranchised. What, then, ......
Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania
Once a vibrant part of religious life for many Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, fraktur manuscripts today are primarily studied for their decorative qualities. The Word in the Wilderness takes a different view, probing these documents for what they tell us about the lived religious ......
This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his starting point, Sam Rose rethinks how ideas about form influenced modernist culture and the movement's significance to art history today.
