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Monstrosity in Games and Play
Monsters fascinate us. From ancient folklore to contemporary digital games, they are at the core of the stories we tell. They reflect our fears, deepest desires, and the …
The Stockholm Bloodbath of 1520
The Stockholm Bloodbath on November 7–9, 1520, during which Kristian II had more than 100 persons executed on charges of heresy, is a turning point in the history of the Northern …
Utrecht University and Colonial Knowledge
In this book, Henk van Rinsum provides an in-depth description of the colonial past of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, from its foundation in 1636. He describes the …
Geology of the Netherlands
Below the famously flat surface of the Netherlands lies a fascinating world of buried mountains and valleys, which can only be unraveled with drillings, geophysical techniques and …
Audiovisual Thinking and the Essay Film
From a semio-pragmatic perspective and drawing on an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach, this book analyses how the audiovisual thinking process manifests itself in essay …
Doubting Women in Early Modern Italy
This book explores early modern Italian women as agents of doubt. While women were often considered prone to doubt as a result of their natural “weakness,” the essays gathered here …
Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony
Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony delves into the central role of music among the early modern sciences by focusing on the work of the French polymath Marin Mersenne …
The Politics of Monstrous Figures in Contemporary Cinema
The book addresses the role of particular monstrous figures and apocalyptic scenarios in contemporary cinema and television and evaluates the political potential of horror and …
What if...?
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Johannes Vermeer were roughly the same age, they were extremely curious and they grew up in the bustling city of Delft in the seventeenth century. …
Handbook of Feminisms in Japan
The Handbook of Feminisms in Japan seeks to give a broad and, even without prior knowledge of Japan, easily accessible introduction to a range of feminisms in this non-Western …
Feng Xiaogang’s New Year Films
This book offers not only an in-depth study of Feng Xiaogang as a cinematic auteur but also a comprehensive and informative discussion of the industrial transformation of …
The Early Modern Production of Missionary Books on Indigenous Languages in New Spain and Peru
How do the social, material, and spatial processes underlying the making of early modern missionary grammars, vocabularies, and devotional translations deepen our understanding of …