What counts as health or ill health? How do we deal with the fallibility of our own bodies? Should illness and disease be considered simply in biological terms, or should considerations of its emotion
This volume originates from a 2009 conference (hosted by the U. of Antwerp and the Rockox House Museum) titled "New Urbanism and the Grid: The Low Countries in International Context. Exchanges in Theo
Food in literature contains a host of symbols, both comforting and unnerving. The authors of the essays in this compilation seem to lean toward the latter. In their look at images of food and eating f
This volume focuses on the relationship between utopianism and the sciences in the period from 1880 to 1930. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Europe and the United States experienced a mushr
The papers presented here originated at a 2007 conference on writing, ritual and cultural memory held in Munich. Wang-Riese and Holliman, both of the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, selected e
This middle of the three-volume series examines how the Bible has been viewed and used in literature, philosophy, and religious communities. Danish scholars of theology, most at Aarhus University, dis
Hojte (Danish National Research Foundation's Center for Black Sea Studies, U. of Aarhus, Denmark) presents 20 papers from a conference reviewing current knowledge concerning Mithridates VI, also known
The editors (all of the Center for Alcohol and Drug Research, U. of Aarhus, Denmark) present a multidisciplinary review of significant developments in Danish drug policy. Written by anthropologists, c
This authoritative text presents a full survey of extant graduals (books containing the music for the mass) that were created in Bohemia and Moravia, for Catholic or Hussite mass. Graham (his affiliat
