This book pieces together the jigsaw of Einstein’s journey to discovering special relativity. Lacking notes from this critical period, it explores his creative process, Poincaré’s parallel work, and the paradoxes of the revolutionary theory.
Julian Among the Books
This book explores the European background of Julian of Norwich’s manuscripts, arguing for ‘Holy Conversations’ where readers participate in her visions. It discusses her Benedictine context, links to other mystics, and preservation by exiled nuns who treasured her text.
This volume addresses innovative ways to present cultural heritage primarily in ethnographic and social history museums through recent exhibitions. Essential political issues related to power and the strong influences of the museum are addressed in each section.
Shimamoto illustrates that Henry A. Wallace’s idea of international atomic controls with Soviet partnership could prevent a postwar nuclear proliferation. She details how Wallace’s failed concept of postwar world order led to his own alienation and ousting from Truman’s cabinet.
Ecclesia et Violentia
This interdisciplinary anthology explores violence and the medieval Church. It examines attacks against clergy, aggression between them, and the role of violence in discipline, revealing how it was integral to the legal culture and social bonds of medieval Europe.
Dr Johnson would walk to the ends of the earth to save him, yet others rejoiced at his death. How did a beautiful, privileged youth become infamous for causing a lice infestation? A friend to the Enlightenment’s leading figures, he lived life to the full.
Moses
This intellectual biography describes the personal development and motivations of Moses from childhood to death. It shows how he developed into a leader and law-giver who led the Jewish people in their struggle for freedom and influenced their religion.
Timeless Experience
Offering unique insights into a key figure in the development of Gestalt therapy, this volume comprises Laura Perls’s heretofore unpublished writing, including journal entries, letters, poems, translations, short stories, and drafts for lectures and publications.
In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond
Beginning with the forced conversion of Iberian Jews and Muslims, this volume examines the effects on their respective diasporas, focusing on a variety of approaches, from language and culture to identity discourses and interchanges between those communities.
The Horrors of Trauma in Cinema
This volume explores how film depicts historical trauma resulting from extreme violence, focusing on Israeli-Palestinian, German, and US cinema. Scholars analyze how movies visualize shattering experiences, uniquely tracing horror aesthetics to question trauma’s loops.
Power, Politics and Episcopal Authority
This book assesses the shifts in bishops’ power in Lincoln and Cremona from the 11th to the 14th century. The comparison highlights the differences between the role of a prelate in England’s largest diocese and the struggle for authority in a communal Italian city.
This conference proceedings sheds new light on the debate surrounding the periodization of Late Antiquity. It recalls key moments of the discovery of the world of Late Antiquity, and shows how it is possible to reach a definition of an age.
In the European Middle Ages, religion intersected with all aspects of existence, from everyday life to relations of power. This book brings together scholars who use diverse medieval examples to offer a renewed perspective for understanding the era.
Ancient Warfare
This collection presents current research on ancient warfare, covering a wide range of themes and neglected topics. Readable and engaging, it offers a high standard of scholarship appealing to historians, students, and a wider audience.
This volume examines how self-presentation can facilitate our understanding of how individuals present their identities. Topics covered include identities shaped through the self-presentation of authors in Latin literature, and explorations on epigraphy and historical analyses.
This volume explores warfare and its political implications from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire. With a focus on cultural and social history, it presents an overview of current issues and diverse approaches to the “new” military history.
Jawless Fishes of the World
The first book to focus exclusively on various aspects of jawless fish species throughout the world, this volume provides an overview of a variety of related topics, including their taxonomy, zoogeography, phylogeny, molecular biology, evolution, and role in the ecosystem.
Myths and Memories
This book examines European travellers’ perceptions of southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Shaped by power and privilege, their narrow narratives created a mythical “pioneer” community, ignoring the inequalities of colonial life.
This collection studies the landscapes of traditional institutions that exist in the Khasi and Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya, India. It blends oral tradition with historical records and secondary literature sources, examining the power and function interplay between authorities.
Using extensive unpublished archival material, Bosco principally examines the first eighteen months of the Federal Union, during which time it was able to raise itself to the attention of the general public, and the political class, as the heir of the League of Nations.
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