Outputs (611)

Gypsies and Orientalism in German Literature and Anthropology of the Long Nineteenth Century (2007)
Book

An apparently nomadic diaspora nation of Indian provenance, the Romanies are present with notable frequency in Germanic literature of the long nineteenth century from Wolzogen, Kotzebue, Brentano and Immermann to Stifter, Keller, Storm, Raabe, Jensen... Read More about Gypsies and Orientalism in German Literature and Anthropology of the Long Nineteenth Century.

The Guénégaud theatre in Paris (1673-1680), volume two : the accounts season by season (2001)
Book

The account books for the Hotel Guenegaud provide a rich source of material for the student of 17th-century theatre, but have so far not been published in fascimile form due to their vast amount of information and chaotic form. This volume is divided... Read More about The Guénégaud theatre in Paris (1673-1680), volume two : the accounts season by season.

Cultural Geography (1998)
Book

Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab conquest (2007)
Book

Mexican National Cinema (2005)
Book

Mexican National Cinema offers an account of the development of Mexican cinema from the intense cultural nationalism of the Mexican Revolution, through the "Golden Age" of the 1940s and the Nuevo Cine of the 1960s, to the renaissance in Mexican cinem... Read More about Mexican National Cinema.

Percy Bysshe Shelley : the major works (2003)
Book

The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was a Romantic poet of radical imaginings, living in an age of change. His tempestuous life and friendship with Byron, and his tragically early death, at time... Read More about Percy Bysshe Shelley : the major works.

Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy (2005)
Book

This book draws on the complementary fields of visual cultural studies and interpretative archaeology to examine how successive generations transformed their visual culture to construct themselves, exploring this process through an extended case-stud... Read More about Visual Culture and Archaeology: Art and Social Life in Prehistoric South-East Italy.

Prediger aus der neuen romantischen Clique. Zur Interaktion von Romantik und Homiletik um 1800. (1999)
Book

Bishops, Wives and Children: Spiritual Capital Across the Generations (2007)
Book

Arguments for or against the decline of Christianity as a cultural force to be reckoned with have rarely taken into account the actual processes by which tradition is transmitted, modified, embraced or rejected over time. This book sheds new light on... Read More about Bishops, Wives and Children: Spiritual Capital Across the Generations.

A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on the Poems of W.B. Yeats (2004)
Book

The following text is taken from the publisher's website: "Deeply involved with Irish culture and history, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the greatest poets writing in the last two centuries. This sourcebook provides essential help for readers who... Read More about A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on the Poems of W.B. Yeats.

Doing ethnographies (1995)
Book

The Window Glass of the Order of St Gilbert of Sempringham: A York-Based Study (2001)
Book

The excavations on the site of the Gilbertine priory of St. Andrew at Fishergate, York, uncovered the largest quantity of window glass from any building associated with this peculiarly English medieval monastic order. It is the only assemblage of any... Read More about The Window Glass of the Order of St Gilbert of Sempringham: A York-Based Study.

Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years’ War (2002)
Book

The following text is taken from the publisher's website. "This book is the first major study in English of the duchy of Savoy during the period of the Thirty Year' War. Rather than examining Savoy purely in terms of its military or geo-strategic rol... Read More about Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy: Political Culture and the Thirty Years’ War.

An Introduction to Mormonism (2003)
Book

The following text is taken from the publisher's website. "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the fastest growing religious movements in the world. It is highly visible, with a massive missionary program, yet it remains a myste... Read More about An Introduction to Mormonism.

Reason, truth and theology in pragmatist perspective (2004)
Book

This work explores which style of rationality is most appropriate to Christian theology in the contemporary pluralist, postfoundationalist, post-modern context. At its heart is a fresh consideration of the American pragmatist tradition, focussing on... Read More about Reason, truth and theology in pragmatist perspective.

The Mormon Culture of Salvation (2000)
Book

The Collecting of Origins: collectors and collections of Italian prehistory and the cultural transformation of value (1550-1999). (2000)
Book

This book examines the strategic re-production and re-working of the cultural values and meanings of prehistoric objects by collectors over the last five hundred years. It does so in the light of those collectors’ individual beliefs and aspirations,... Read More about The Collecting of Origins: collectors and collections of Italian prehistory and the cultural transformation of value (1550-1999)..

Anthropology and Theology (2002)
Book

The following text is taken from the publisher's website. "Anthropology and Christian Theology have traditionally interpreted religion in quite different ways and have often been thought of as hostile to one another. In fact, a fundamental concern fo... Read More about Anthropology and Theology.

Legitimate Histories: Scott, Gothic, and the Authorities of Fiction (1994)
Book

Death Ritual and Belief The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites (1997)
Book