This collection traces representations of East European women in Western art and culture, drawing connections between these philosophical, artistic, and cultural constructions and actual historical, socio-political realities. The articles analyse narrative, theatre, opera, journ…
A continuing 'cry for the new', it is said, drives present-day consumerism. People are producing and buying new goods in ever-larger quantities. However, in the past, consumer choices for new products were paralleled and even overlapped by structurally embedded practices such …
Studie over de houding van de middeleeuwse maatschappij t.a.v. homoseksualiteit: de afkeer van homoseksualiteit is niet van meet af aan verbonden geweest met het christendom. Pas in de periode na 1150 sloeg de tolerantie om in snel groeiende intolerantie als onderdeel van een gr…
The notion of the symbol is at the root of the Symbolist movement, but this symbol is different from the way it was used and understood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the Symbolist movement, a symbol is not an allegory. The Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck defined its …
The notion of the symbol is at the root of the Symbolist movement, but this symbol is different from the way it was used and understood in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In the Symbolist movement, a symbol is not an allegory. The Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck defined its …
Klausen researches the attitude of European governments towards the integration of Muslim minorities. Their policies are often perceived to be discriminatory, but are sometimes supported also by Muslim leaders. There is little disagreement that radical clerics should be kept out…
The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as the author argues here, the visual wo…