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  • A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient tim... A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history charting the evolving nature and role of memory throughout history. This volume A Cultural History... more
  • A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient tim... A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history charting the evolving nature and role of memory throughout history. This volume A Cultural History... more
  • A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient tim... A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history charting the evolving nature and role of memory throughout history. This volume A Cultural History... more
  • For the first time a group of distinguished authors come together to provide a... For the first time a group of distinguished authors come together to provide an authoritative exploration of the cultural history of tragedy in the Middle Ages. Reports of the so-called death of medieval tragedy they argue have been greatly... more
  • Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume ... Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE examines the themes practice and effects of medieval comedy from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant... more
  • The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation and notions of dis... The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender class and race among other dimensions of human difference. Ideas of disability... more
  • For the first time during the Early Modern period ships regularly traveled bet... For the first time during the Early Modern period ships regularly traveled between and among all of basins that comprise the World Ocean. During this period European mariners ventured into new waters where they encountered new trading partners new... more
  • Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but riven by the violence of the... Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but riven by the violence of the Reformation and Counter Reformation the terrain of Early Modern law was constantly shifting. The age of expansion saw unparalleled degrees of internal and external... more
  • A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650... A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800 a period often seen as a time of decline in sporting practice and literature. In fact a rich sporting culture existed and sports were practised by both men and women... more
  • The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political cultural... The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political cultural religious and educational ideas with the aim of improving the experience of human beings in society. Key to intellectual debates and day-to-day life were ideas about the... more
  • A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to... A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900 a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the handmade to the machine made. The revolution in making and in consuming the things which... more
  • During the 19th century the home as both a cultural construct and a set of liv... During the 19th century the home as both a cultural construct and a set of lived practices became more powerful in the Western world than ever before. The West saw an unprecedented period of imperial expansion industrialisation and commercialization... more
  • A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650... A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical color transformed art architecture ceramics jewelry and glass. Newton using a prism demonstrated the seven separate hues which... more
  • This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple E... This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democratic revolutions. Enlightenment as precursor to liberal democratic modernity was once secular catechism... more
  • The Enlightenment as concept and time period was haunted by ambiguities about ... The Enlightenment as concept and time period was haunted by ambiguities about the relationships between mind and body humans and the natural world and reason and imagination. The 18th century was inherently contradictory particularly when it came to... more
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