This volume's central assertion is that the 'forgetting' of European women's contributions during the period between the two world wars was not accidental but was ideologically motivated. Key concerns
Tokita (School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash U., Australia) and Hughes (ethnomusicology, School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London, UK) present a collection of 16 essays
It is always and everywhere morally wrong to kill an innocent person intentionally as a means to an end, regardless of further appeals to consequences or motive, claims medical ethicist Paterson. He a
The revolutionary Romanticism and poetic experimentation of the decade is generally attributed to the American and French revolutions, but Manly (U. of St. Andrews, Scotland) traces it to 17th-century
Europe is a relatively secular part of the world in global terms. Why is this so? And why is the situation in Europe so different from that in the United States? The first chapter of this book – the
The 14 papers, first published between 1980 and 2004, address three themes. The first is the transition from Late Antiquity to Islam in the cities and countryside of Syria--the Arabic Bilad al-Sham, w
The setting for the studies collected here is the West-Eurasian steppe region, extending from present-day Kazakhstan through southern Russia, Ukraine and Moldavia to the Carpathian Basin. The first ar
Wyclif's ideas caused a major upheaval both in the country of his birth and in the Bohemian area of central Europe; that upheaval affected theological, ecclesiastical and political developments from t
These essays deal with two central preoccupations: the new styles of political behaviour developed by Christian rulers and Christian congregations during the century or so after Constantine's conversi
The studies brought together in this volume were published over the last thirty years and are concerned, directly or indirectly, with the Portuguese presence in India between about 1500 and 1650. They
Though it may not be immediately obvious why articles on topics from such distantly removed areas of western Europe - the Iberian peninsula and southern Italy - should appear in the same volume (the f
Theological thinkers are placed into contexts which inform their theological tasks but that context is usually limited to a European or North American centre, usually ignoring minorities and lesser ma
Jonathan Harvey (b. 1939) is one of Britain's leading composers: his music is frequently performed throughout Europe, the United States (where he has lived and worked) and Japan. He is particularly re
Potvin and Myzelev (European art and design history and art history, U. of Guelph, Canada) compile 11 essays that examine how collecting objects from applied and decorative arts impacted the identity
In this study of the effects of the Reformation in Europe, Heal (St. Andrew's University, UK) and Grell (history, Open University, UK) gather together essays that provide a synthesis of results so tha
Kraft (English, U. of Georgia, US) began by investigating what women writers of the Restoration and 18th century in England say about female heterosexual desire. Her study kept sprouting new branches
How did the penitentiary get its name? Why did the English impose long prison sentences? Did class and economic conflict really lie at the heart of their correctional system? In a groundbreaking study
