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The Language of Empire
The Roman Empire has been an object of fascination for the past two millennia, and the story of how a small city in central Italy came to dominate...
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Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity
In this study, Beat Wyss provides a critical analysis of Hegel’s theories of art history. Analogous to his philosophy of history, Hegel viewed the...
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Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100–700 BC
This book explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender, and social identity in the Greek Early Iron Age, 1100–700 BC....
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Proclus: Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus
This volume of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Timaeus records Proclus’ exegesis of Timaeus 27a–31b, in which Plato first discusses preliminary...
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Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art
This collection of essays explores the rise of aesthetics as a response to, and as a part of, the reshaping of the arts in modern society. The...
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A Theology of Public Life
What has Washington to do with Jerusalem? In the raging debates about the relationship between religion and politics, no one has explored the...
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Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art
What was the ‘Classical Revolution’ in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these...
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The Roman Bazaar
It has long been held by historians that trade and markets in the Roman Empire resembled those found later in early modern Europe. Using the concept...
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Greek Sculpture
Greek sculpture developed into a fine art in the archaic and classical periods. With the human figure as its main subject, artists worked to...
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The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual...
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Later Manuscripts:
The manuscripts that survive from Jane Austen's maturity offer a unique insight into her life as a creative writer. This volume collects together,...
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Verb Meaning and the Lexicon
The relationship between the meaning of words and the structure of sentences is an important area of research in linguistics. Studying the...
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The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709–1875
Illustrations have been an important element of many of the most extensively read editions of Shakespeare’s plays, from the frontispieces to...
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The Syntax of Agreement and Concord
Agreement is the grammatical phenomenon in which the form of one item, such as the noun horses, forces a second item in the sentence, such as the...
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Shakespeare and Tolerance
Shakespeare’s remarkable ability to detect and express important new currents and moods in his culture often led him to dramatise human...
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The Syntax of Agreement and Concord
Agreement is the grammatical phenomenon in which the form of one item, such as the noun horses, forces a second item in the sentence, such as the...
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The Moral Mirror of Roman Art
This interdisciplinary study explores the meanings of mirrors and reflections in Roman art and society. When used as metaphors in Roman visual and...
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Scotland and the Fictions of Geography
Focusing on the relationship between England and Scotland and the interaction between history and geography, Penny Fielding explores how Scottish...
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Plotinus on Sense-Perception
This book is a philosophical analysis of Plotinus’ views on sense-perception. It aims to show how his thoughts were both original and a development...
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Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts
In the Russian modernist era, literature threw itself open to influences from other art forms, most particularly the visual arts. Collaborations...
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The Taming of a Shrew: The 1594 Quarto
This is a modernized edition of an anonymous play, long known to scholars, which appears to be an alternative version of Shakespeare’s popular...
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Ethno-psychopharmacology
No one reacts or responds to a drug in exactly the same way, just as no two persons are exactly alike. Individual and ethnic differences in drug...
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Society and Psychosis
Psychiatry is in the process of rediscovering its roots. It seemed as if the long history of interest in the impact of society on the rates and...
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