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Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences
In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including …
Adventures in the Real World: Discovering The Tomb of Tutankhamun
The titles in the Adventures in the Real World series provide in-depth, fast-paced accounts of famous, world-changing voyages and expeditions throughout history, using a mix of …
Mujeres, magia y brujería en el mundo antiguo
The State of the Poll for Members in Parliament to Represent the City of York. ... April, 1784. Lord John Cavendish, Sir William Milner, Bart. Rt. Hon. Lord Viscount Gallway, Richard Slater Milnes, Esq; Candidates.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome
Life in Rome was relentlessly public, and oratory was at its heart. Orations were dramatic spectacles in which the speaker deployed an arsenal of rhetorical tricks and strategies …
Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity
Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet …
The Bonfires of Beltane
Since before anyone can remember, Taran's Celtic island people have sacrificed children to Crom Cruach, the dread sun god. His whole clan accepts this atrocity, yet in his heart he …
Shakespeare's England
Shakespeare’s Influence on Karl Marx
This volume presents a close reading of instances of Shakespearean quotations, allusions, imagery and rhetoric found in Karl Marx’s collected works and letters, which provides …
Theatre and Postcolonial Desires
This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. The struggles it describes unfolded in …
Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy
This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with 'infancy' during the Romantic period. Taking its point of departure in the …
Philippe de Mezieres and His Age
Philippe de Mezieres (1327-1405) was the quintessential man of all seasons of the fourteenth-century Mediterranean. A scholar, a soldier, a mystic, a man of affairs, a royal …