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After invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to have smashed the Kaqchikel and K'iche' Maya kingdoms and to have forged a new colony - with their leader, Pedro de Alvarado, as Guatemala's conquistador. This volume shows that the real story of the Spanish invasion was very different.

In the Middle Ages, textual amulets were thought to protect the bearer against enemies, to heal afflictions caused by demonic invasions, and to bring the wearer good fortune. Offering an analysis of many surviving textual amulets, this book provides a study of this once-common means of harnessing the magical power of words.

Some 50,000 Soviets visited the USA under various exchange programmes between 1958 and 1988. This work shows how these exchange programmes raised the Iron Curtain and fostered changed that prepared the way for Gorbachev's "glasnost, perestroika", and the end of the Cold War.

This overview of the Oxford Movement highlights five key areas in which the movement affected English society more broadly - politics, religion and theology, friendship, society, and missions. The thematic approach illuminatesthe wider political, social, and cultural impact of the movement.

This text examines why some societies with market economies perform much better than others and what the less successful countries can learn from the more successful ones. It includes comparison of Latin American with East Asian approches as well as North American and Western European.

In "Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World", a distinguished array of scholars explores the many ways in which people in the ancient world sought to gain access to-or, in some cases, to bind or escape from-the divine powers of heaven and earth.

Provides a unique account of Cold War history during the Khrushchev era by one who witnessed it firsthand - Sergei, his only surviving son, in whom he often confided. In this book, Sergei tells the story of how the Cold War happened in reality from the Russian side, not from the American side.

Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction.

Explores the relationship between art and religion after the iconoclasm of the Dutch Reformation. Reassesses Dutch realism and its pictorial strategies in relation to the religious and political diversity of the Dutch cities.

Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how contemporary global art is conceptualized. Issues discussed include globalism and globalization, internationalism and nationality, empire and capitalism.

Brings together the disciplines of art, music, and history to explore the importance of the past to conceptions of the present in the central Middle Ages.

Ranging from France and Russia to America in the throes of world war and revolution, this book investigates how critics and creative artists made medieval culture a part of their modern world through theatrical role playing. It focuses on two key figures of the Theophilien troupe: founder Gustave Cohen and actor Moussa Abadi.

Examines the nexus of learned culture and architecture in the 1730s to 1750s, including major building projects in Rome undertaken by the popes.

Extends formalism to facture and situates the materiality of Titian's later works within the late sixteenth-century interest in embodiment and violence rather than within the Renaissance ideals of classicizing beauty and perfection.

A series of linked essays that considers different aspects of Matisse's life and work, revealing how the artist worked against many of the main tenets of modernism.

Traces changes in Andean artists' vision of indigenous peoples as well as shifts in the critical discourse surrounding their work between 1920 and 1960.

Argues that Viennese Jewish modernism is explicable as an aesthetic reconfiguration of Jewish tradition in response to multifaceted crises of memory, identity and language. Examines the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945) and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).

A general study of palace painting in Trecento and Quattrocento Italy. Argues for the pivotal role of early secular painting in early-modern art and theory.

A discussion of the murals by Giotto in the Arena Chapel of Padua, Italy. The artist's work is considered in terms of its relationship to the structure of the poetry of Dante, biblical exegesis, geometry, and symmetry.

Examines 58 letters written by Katerina Lemmel, a wealthy Nuremberg widow, who in 1516 entered the abbey of Maria Mai in south Germany, and rebuilt the monastery using her own resources and the donations she solicited from relatives.

Explores an international network of artists, artist groups, and critics linked by their aesthetic and theoretical responses to science, science fiction, and new media. Focuses on the Italian Spatial Artist Lucio Fontana and French Painter of Space Yves Klein.

This anthology provides a unique, multifaceted overview of a subject of enduring importance in today's religiously pluralistic societies. The essays collected here, written by scholars with an eye toward the average reader, broadly survey the dramatization of the Passion and consider the significance of this focus for both Christians and Jews.

Invites readers to consider and reconsider how past thinkers - from Pliny and Alberti to Freud and Fried - have conceptualized the history of Western art.

Examines theater and portraiture as interrelated social practices in seventeenth-century Spain. Features visual images and cross-disciplinary readings of selected plays that employ the motif of the painted portrait to key dramatic and symbolic effect.

Discusses an epochal shift in the representation of sexuality in modern art with the images of nudes made by Paul Cezanne. This book proposes a way of reading Cezanne's biography as a form of art criticism. It also proposes a reading of Cezanne's images of bathers that accounts for their strangenesses and for the pleasures they produce.

In 1878, the author Marius Roux, a noted friend of Emile Zola and Paul Cezanne, published "La proie et l'ombre", which offers an insight into the thoughts and lives of the Impressionists. This book discusses the effects of a burgeoning capitalist economy on the artistic practices of the period.

A collection of essays presenting international perspectives on the narratives and the practices grounding the scholarly study of American Art.

Explores the ways in which Spanish Imperial authority was manifested in a system of representation for subjects of New Spain during seventeenth century. This book examines images in which the conquest of Mexico is depicted, maps showing New Spain's relationship to Spain and the larger world, and restructuring of space in and through imperial rule.