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
With the Christian church in the west in decline, some churches are undergoing difficult transitions as they seek to become relevant, to both themselves and their surrounding cultures. Evangelicalism
Beginning with the premise that men and women of the Romantic period were lively interlocutors who participated in many of the same literary traditions and experiments, Fellow Romantics offers an insp
This book examines Shakespeare's fascination with the art of narrative and the visuality of language. Richard Meek complicates our conception of Shakespeare as either a 'man of the theatre' or a 'lite
Since the 1980s, musicians and audiences in Athens have been rediscovering musical traditions associated with the Ottoman period of Greek history. The result of this revivalist movement has been the u
The gawking tourist with cameras dangling from his neck is a universal icon. Robinson and Picard, of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, have gathered essays on tourists and photography. The views are
Academic philosophers and military personnel in countries with sterling ethical reputations--the US, Israel, and Britain among others--offer advice on how to teach soldiers about ethics in today's con
Of particular interest to scholars concerned with medieval technology and technology as well as those interested in medieval art and architecture, this is a "special publication" in the series publish
Rural Identities investigates and engages with the ways in which ideas of the English countryside and rural nature, are enrolled into and fashion the narratives of Englishness. At the heart of the boo
With both opponents and a significant number of proponents of the death penalty widely agreeing that the capital punishment system in the United States is almost irrevocably broken (to the extent that
Combining linguistic theory with analytical concepts and literary interpretation and appreciation, Jane Austen's Narrative Techniques traces the creation and development of Austen's narrative techniqu
This book offers conceptual and practical insights into the complex interactions between ecotourism and the natural environment, with consideration given to government policy, marketing by suppliers,
Krishnamurthy (Fitchburg State College) presents 12 essays examining a diverse array of figures who through various forms sought to engage 18th and 19th British audiences with the realities of the wor
The Romantic Legacy of Paradise Lost offers a new critical insight into the relationship between Milton and the Romantic poets. Beginning with a discussion of the role that seventeenth and eighteenth-
The evolving role of fathers in familial power relations is explored in this volume, with Aitken (geography, San Diego State U. and the Norwegian U. of Science and Technology) noting that societal not
Writing from within the social sciences and the humanities, but with a distinctly sociological perspective, scholars search for the real authenticity behind all the controversy about it. Their topics
This book opens up the debate on the interrelations between space and mobilities with regard to different dimensions of social inequality. Based on the premise that the dynamics caused by modernizatio
Athenagoras of Athens was a Christian thinker of the second century who engaged with contemporary philosophical thought in the matters of the divine, and the relationship of that divine to the materia
The role of popular music in advertising is examined in this volume, with Klein (media industries, U. of Leeds, UK) investigating such topics as authorship and ownership issues and the legitimization
With its emphasis on early modern emissaries and their role in England's expansionary ventures and cross-cultural encounters across the globe, this collection of essays takes the messenger figure as a
Drawing on recent research in prospective memory and on a much longer history of studies of the basic mechanisms of attention memory, three human factors researchers with the National Aeronautical and
For decades North Africa and the Middle East have experienced overlapping identities and integration processes. With the exception of Morocco, the countries of North Africa have supported the re-launc
"With a discussion of this everyday practice constituting both leisure and learning in this digital age, The Multiplicities of Internet Addiction informs our understanding of the discourses surroundin
It was the Renaissance culture of paradox, argues Platt (English, Barnard College), that provided Shakespeare with the vocabulary and the conceptual framework for his presentation of an array of persp
This volume explores the nature of health and health-care experiences in Russia by comparing societies and communities with different socio-cultural conditions. The unique use of longitudinal data col
Presents an anthropological perspective on the hidden continuities between corruption and law. This book argues that the two opposites, corruption and law, are inextricably linked - with the possibili
From 1840a€“57, Heinrich Ernst was one of the most famous and significant European musicians, and performed on stage, often many times, with Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Alkan, Clara S
Hyacinth Bobone (c. 1105a€“1198) was one of the great figures of twelfth-century Europe. Active in the Roman Curia from the 1120s, a student in Paris, and associated with both Peter Abelard and Arnold
This collection of 13 articles presents a coherent and fascinating discussion of the experience of travel in the Middle Ages, with articles on maps, astrolabes, roads, ships, and transport of building
This third edition of Straight and Level thoroughly updates the previous edition with extensive comments on recent industry developments and emerging business models. The discussion is illustrated by
Dreambooks in Byzantium offers for the first time in English translation and with commentary six of the seven extant Byzantine oneirocritica, or manuals on the interpretation of dreams. (The seventh,
Introduction to Air Transport Economics: From Theory to Applications uniquely merges the institutional and technical aspects of the aviation industry with their theoretical economic underpinnings. In
Just as the cover image of a salamander specimen confronts us with the ambiguities of life and death and transpecies kinship, this interdisciplinary volume by international scholars in queer theory, c
Dr. Cotter, who works with the Social Security Law Firm, has previously published books on both race and gender discrimination, now focuses on age discrimination and how the court systems have address
Engaging with contemporary Anglican theology of the Eucharist through the concept of anamnesis, this book seeks to enrich the Church's understanding of transformation and mission. Eucharistic theology
What shapes the role of Information and Communication Technologies in our everyday life? Despite the speed with which information and communication technologies such as the PC, mobile telephone and in
Buying for the Home is a book about the experiences and also the polarities of shopping and the home. It analyses the ways in which the agencies and discourses of the retail environment mesh with the
In the resilience engineering approach to safety, failures and successes are seen as two different outcomes of the same underlying process, namely how people and organizations cope with complex, under
This volume ends Ibn al-Athir's (1193-1231) chronicles of the Crusades, abstracted from his larger history of Islam in general. It begins with the state of the Ayyubid empire when Saladin died, and tr
Significant and unexplored signs of John Marston's literary rivalry with Ben Jonson are investigated here by Charles Cathcart. The centrepiece of the book is its argument that the anonymous play The F
