Sherborne Old Castle was built in Dorset in about 1122-35. The fortified palace was one of several major building projects undertaken by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury. Although Sherborne Old Castle was altered over the next four centuries, most of its original structural elements w…
The question of the relation between the visual and the textual in literature is at the heart of an increasing number of scholarly projects, and in turn, the investigation of evolving visual-verbal dynamics is becoming an independent discipline. This volume explores these profou…
""No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.""--T.S. Eliot, ""Tradition and the Individual Talent"", 1921 Bloomsbury Influences is an interdisciplinary essay…
In Byzantium the epigram as a genre was highly appreciated. Their analysis is the aim of the four planned volumes of the project 2Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung3 [2Byzantine epigrams on objects3]. More than 300 and such epigrams preserved on stone, whic…
In Byzantium the epigram as a genre was highly appreciated. Their analysis is the aim of the four planned volumes of the project 2Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung3 [2Byzantine epigrams on objects3]. More than 300 and such epigrams preserved on stone, whic…
In Byzantium the epigram as a genre was highly appreciated. Their analysis is the aim of the four planned volumes of the project "Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung" ["Byzantine epigrams on objects"]. More than 300 and such epigrams preserved on stone, whic…
In Byzantium the epigram as a genre was highly appreciated. Their analysis is the aim of the four planned volumes of the project "Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung" ["Byzantine epigrams on objects"]. More than 300 and such epigrams preserved on stone, whic…
"This is not a book for architects, but for all those that have suffered, consciously and unconsciously, from modern architecture and have wondered how it came about. This was largely due to one man, an architect called Le Corbusier. For some he was a genius, but the truth is he…
The Kalush are the last Kafirs (pagans) of Hindu Kush and speak an Indo-European language, which makes them a particularly precious resource for the Indo-European scholar. This thesis offers an in-depth study of their language and of some aspects of their culture. Starting from …
In the 1970s, especially after Franco's death in 1975, Spanish cinema was bursting at the seams. Numerous film directors broke free from the ancient taboos which had reigned under the dictatorship. They introduced characters who, through their bodies, transgress the traditional …
"Cities are full of symbols that bear the meanings that together constitute urban culture. These interdisciplinary case studies, from Yogyakarta to Leiden and from Buenos Aires to New York, employ urban symbolism theory and a focus on such symbols as the city's layout, statues, …
This study throws new light on the Roman impact on Italic religious structures in the last four centuries BC and, more generally, on the complex processes of change and accommodation set in motion by the Roman expansion in Italy. Cult places had a pivotal function among the vari…
This scholarly study throws a new light on the Roman impact on religious structures in Republican Italy.
This study throws new light on the Roman impact on Italic religious structures in the last four centuries BC and, more generally, on the complex processes of change and accommodation set in motion by the Roman expansion in Italy. Cult places had a pivotal function among the vari…
German cinema is best known for its art cinema and its long line of outstanding individual directors. The double spotlight on these two subject has only deepened the obscurity surrounding the popular cinema. A Second Life<i/> performs a kind of archaeology on a period largely ov…
Essays on a neglected period, focusing on the face and fate of popular cinema.
This book proposes traveling vicariously with documentary and fiction films directed by Mariano Llinás, Alicia Scherson, Karim Aïnouz, Marcelo Gomes, Cao Guimarães, José Luis Torres Leiva, Tiziana Panizza, Jonathan Perel, Gustavo Fontán, Ignacio Agüero, Raúl Ruiz, Patricio Guzmá…
This comprehensive history of Japanese animation draws on Japanese primary sources and testimony from industry professionals to explore the production and reception of anime, from its early faltering steps, to the international successes of Spirited Away and Pokémon.
Photography is clearly not a mirror of daily life: that images are constructions is especially obvious in 19th-century studio portrait photography. This book explores how indigenous Iranian photographers constructed their own realities in contrast to how foreign photographers co…
