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The contributors to this collection dive deep into the rich historical record, heroic literature, and story lore of the medieval communities ringing the Irish Sea, with case studies that encompass Manx, Irish, Scandinavian, Welsh, and English traditions.

Communicate as a Professional offers a solid foundation for developing the communication knowledge and skills that students need, both when working as a professional after they have graduated, and when following an educational program that prepares them for this future.

Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illustrates trade ties within East Asia, and from East Asia outwards, in the years 1550 to 1800.

Profiling the European citizen: why today's democracy needs to look harder at the negative potential of new technology than at its positive potential.

This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong.

This final volume of Syntax of Dutch discusses the coordinators, coordinate structure in Dutch as well as the contraction and ellipsis phenomena found in such structures.

This book examines the environment and society of North Africa during the late Roman period (fourth and fifth centuries CE) through the writings of Helvius Vindicianus, Theodorus Priscianus, Caelius Aurelianus, and Cassius Felix.

This study examines the interdependence of gender, sexuality and space in the early modern period, which saw the inception of architecture as a discipline and gave rise to the first custodial institutions for women, among them convents for reformed prostitutes.

This book offers new interpretations of contemporary theories of correctio, and shows the self-awareness of its main instigators as they pondered what it meant to be a good Christian in a good Christian empire.

This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote.

This book explores a major step-change in Eurasian history: the revolutionary boom in standardised objects at the start of the Roman era.

Introduction to political science. Discusses the character of the 'political'; its essential characteristics; key question to address for understanding politics; key concepts such as power, conflict, cooperation, political system and political community.

(How) opera works allows us to see not only how alive, relevant and urgent opera and music theatre are, but also how challenging it will be to continue the pursuit of Audi's quest and dreams.

This book attempts to bridge the fields of film archiving and academic research by addressing the discourse on film's existence and analysing how it affects the important role of the film archive.

This book explores the reception of the 1001 Nights in eighteenth-century Dutch literature and scholarship, and the bibliographic history of its French-language editions and Dutch retranslations.

Making Media uncovers what it means and what it takes to make media (professionally), focusing on the lived experience of media workers within the global media, including rich case studies of the main media industries and professions: television, journalism, social media entertainment, advertising, public relations, digital games, and music.

The book explores the co-development of political, social, economic, and artistic networks of Florentines working in the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg.

This book examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, especially when they were expected to occupy the spheres society believed their gender should.

This volume offers an introduction to the life and work of the German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz.

This book regards the ideology, practice, and critcism in relation to the usage of unassimilated eclecticism -the use of more than a single style- in a given work of art in Early Modern Bolognese painting.

This collection of essays highlights innovative work in the emerging field of media archaeology.

This book investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy.

This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today.

This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden in 2016.

This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome

This book investigates El Greco's pictorial art as foundational to the globalising trends manifested in the visual culture of early modernity.

Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space.

This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies.