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• Gods of ancient Rome, the East and West Indies, Egypt, China, and Japan
• Asian peoples and places
• Inca kings and queen

"An exploration of the classical text, Biblioteca Angelica Manuscript 1551, including explanations and theories on how it came to be"-- Provided by publisher
Biblioteca Angelica ms. 1551 consists of three sets of watercolor drawings, each depicting non-European peoples or places in Asia and the Americas, and belonged to the famous collector and antiquarian Camillo Massimo (1620-1677). It was part of a large donation by his descendants in the nineteenth century. This is the first in-depth investigation of the three series in terms of materials or manufacture, possible relations to one another or other contemporaneous illustrations, and role in advancing understanding of the depicted peoples. Clues within the drawings, their style, and content suggest not only new interpretations, but specific links between and among them, placing them squarely into the most intense period in the early modern era of European interest in these cultures.-- Provided by publisher

Large parts of the German population report extraordinary experiences: 75% had at least one extraordinary experience in their life, 50% report classic paranormal experiences such as hauntings, telepathy, extrasensory perceptions, or prophetic dreaming. Thinking you are crazy is a popular reaction from laypeople, but not infrequently also from professionals. Dieter Vaitl gives an overview of the decades of empirical research of the internationally known Instituts für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene in Freiburg im Breisgau. Most people can accordingly process extraordinary experiences well and incorporate them into their everyday lives, but some of those affected experience confusion and fear. Using modern psychological explanations, Vaitl explains when such experiences develop into a mental disorder and which factors play a role. He gives an empirically informed insight into the phenomenology and scope of a fascinating area of ​​our everyday reality.

Der öffentliche Diskurs über die Rolle von (grammatischem) Genus bei der Referenz auf Menschen und deren Geschlechter ignoriert die Linguistik und ist damit unwissenschaftlich. Dies wurde unlängst im Aufruf "Schluss mit dem Gender-Unfug" vom "Verein Deutsche Sprache" offenkundig, der jeglichen Zusammenhang zwischen Genus und Geschlecht abstreitet. Damaris Nübling liefert einen Überblick über neuere Forschungen zu grammatischer, biologischer und sozialer Kategorisierung und stößt dabei auf enge und komplexe Beziehungen zwischen Genus und Geschlecht. Genus verweist dabei weniger auf Geschlechtsorgane als auf Geschlechterordnungen. Geschlechtsrollenverstöße werden durch deviante Zuordnungen zwischen Genus und Geschlecht ausgestellt (die Schwuchtel, der Vamp, das Mensch, das Weib). Hinter solchen Asymmetrien scheint die Gesellschaft des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts auf. Homosexuelle Männer werden ihrer Geschlechtsklasse verwiesen, indem sie in die Feminina verschoben werden. Unreife bzw. unverheiratete Frauen geraten dagegen eher ins Neutrum, das üblicherweise auf unbelebte Entitäten referiert. Genusverschiebungen erzeugen damit seit jeher besondere Effekte, die allesamt mit Abwertungen verbunden sind

• Milton, Giovanni Salzilli, and the Academies of Rome
• Milton's Latin epigrams to Leonora Baroni
• Milton, Lucas Holstenius, and the culture of Rome

"This study examines the impact of Rome and its vibrant culture upon Milton in the course of two two-monthly sojourns in the city in 1638-1639. Focusing on his neo-Latin writings pertaining to that period ("Ad Salsillum," the three Latin epigrams in praise of the soprano Leonora Baroni, and Epistola Familiaris 9, addressed to Lucas Holstenius), it presents new evidence of the academic, literary, and musical contexts surrounding Milton's pro-active integration into seicento Rome. Highlighting Milton's self-fashioning as one who was hospitably embraced by Catholic Rome, it traces his networking with distinguished Italian humanists (upon whom he left no slight an impression)"-- Provided by publisher

• List of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements
• 1: W. Mark Ormrod, Joanna Story, and Elizabeth M. Tyler: Framing Migration in England
• 2: Mark Jobling and Andrew Millard: Isotopic and Genetic Evidence for Migration in Medieval England
• 3: Martin Findell and Phillip Shaw: Language Contact in Early Medieval Britain: Settlement, Interaction, and Acculturation
• 4: Jayne Carroll: Identifying Migrants in Medieval England: The Possibilities and Limitations of Place-Name Evidence
• 5: Peter McClure: Personal Names as Evidence for Migrants and Migration in Medieval England
• 6: Elizabeth M. Tyler and George Younge: Moving People, Moving Forms: Narrating Migration in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• 7: Dawn M. Hadley: The Archaeology of Migrants in Viking-Age and Anglo-Norman England: Process, Practice, and Performance
• 8: Julian Luxford: The Migrant in English Art: Perspectives on Influence and Agency
• 9: Christopher Dyer: Migration in Rural England in the Later Middle Ages
• 10: Sarah Rees Jones: English Towns in the Later Middle Ages: The Rules and Realities of Population Mobility
• 11: Bart Lambert and W. Mark Ormrod: The State and the Immigrant: Negotiating Nationalities in Later Medieval England Index.
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This is the only book on the market to provide an in-depth analysis and discussion of the theme of migration in medieval England. Its themes - the movement of people and the social and cultural effects of migration - chime strongly with current debates in the UK on immigration; the book demonstrates that movement was a constant influence on the development of the kingdom of England and the concept of Englishness.
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• Introduction: Scotland and the modern world
• Scottish publishers and English letters

"In view of the value placed in Scotland on education, reading, and self-improvement and the enterprise and inventiveness with which the inhabitants of the far poorer northern kingdom responded to the opportunities opened up to them by the Union with England, it is not surprising that Scotsmen were heavily represented in the printing and publishing trades. An altogether disproportionate number of the great publishing houses of the English-speaking world, whose names were to become household words - Blackie, Blackwood, Collins, Constable, Macmillan, Millar, Murray, Nelson, Smith and Elder, Strahan -- were founded by men, often enough of quite humble origin, from "north of the border."-- Provided by publisher
Many of the classic English writers from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century were encouraged by those running the companies to make literature in English accessible to all. Gossman's essay offers a comprehensive overview of this remarkable Scottish contribution to English literary history.-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction / Ute Frevert
• Emotions in times of war: private and public, individual and collective / Susan R. Grayzel
• 'Macabre and hilarious' : the emotional life of the civilian gas mask in France during and after the First World War / Michael Roper
• Little Ruby's hand : young women and the emotional experience of caregiving in Britain after the First World War / Claudia Siebrecht
• The tears of 1939 : German women and the emotional archive of the First World War / Martin Francis
• Wounded pride and petty jealousies : private lives and public diplomacy in Second World War Cairo / Lucy Noakes
• Communities of feeling : fear, death, and grief in the writing of British servicemen in the Second World War / Claire Langhamer
• 'Astray in a dark forest'? The emotional politicis of reconstruction Britain / Joy Damousi
• In search of Victor : transnationalism, emotion and war

Love, grief, hate and fear are among the emotions most immediately associated with the rhetoric, experience and memory of war. Focusing on Europe during and after the two world wars, this volume explores the emotional worlds of those who lived their lives under war's shadow.
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• foreword, GRISELDA POLLOCK, NADIA RADWAN, MANDY MERZABAN List of Figures Note on Contributors Acknowledgements IntroductionCEREN OEZPINAR and MARY KELLY: Agency and Resistance to National and Global Discourses
• 1: NADINE ATALLAH: Have There Really Been No Great Women Artists? Writing a Feminist Art History of Modern Egypt
• 2: CHARLOTTE BANK: Feminism and Social Critique in Syrian Contemporary Art
• 3: TAL DEKEL: Hyphenated. Transnational Feminism in Contemporary Israeli Art: Between Mizrahi and Arab Identities
• 4: LINA M. KATTAN: The Moment of Change: Thematic Strands of Contemporary Saudi Women's Art Translating Ethnicity and Subjectivity into Art
• 5: SOMAYEH NOORI SHIRAZI: The Articulating-self Inside Out: Katayoun Karami and Becoming a Woman
• 6: ISABELLE DE LE COURT: Squares of Colour: Abstraction in The Work of Saloua Raouda Choucair and Etel Adnan
• 7: HOLIDAY POWERS: Transmission as Resistance in The Work of Zineb Sedira
• 8: AKILA KIZZI: Indigenous Algerian Women Artists in The French Landscape: Baya Mahieddine and Taos Amrouche Methods and Strategies to See Politics and Practices Differently
• 9: JESSICA GERSCHULTZ: Notes on Tending Feminist Methodologies
• 10: RACHEL NELSON: On Perpetual Conflict
• 11: CEREN OEZPINAR: Claims to Fame: An Exhibition of Women Artists from Turkey
• 12: MARY KELLY: Locating the First Sculptural Mark: An Artist Interview with Diana Al-Hadid Index.
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Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today is set out to show what is beneath the surface, under the appearances of skin, body, colour and provenance, and not the cultural fixities or partial views detached from the realities of communities, cultures and practices from the area. Through 12 chapters, Under the Skin brings together artistic practices and complex histories informed by feminisms from diverse cultural and geographical contexts: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. The aim is not to represent all of the countries from the Middle East and North Africa, but to present a cross-section that reflects the variety of nations, cultures, languages and identities across the area-including those of Berber, Mizrahi Jews, Kurdish, Muslim, Christian, Arab, Persian and Armenian peoples. It thus considers art informed by feminisms through translocal and transnational lenses of diverse ethnic, linguistic and religious groups not solely as a manifestation of multiple and complex social constructions, but also as a crucial subject of analysis in the project of decolonising art history and contemporary visual culture. The volume offers an understanding on how art responds to and shapes cultural attitudes towards gender and sexuality, ethnicity/race, religion, tradition, modernity and contemporaneity, and local and global politics. And it strives to strike a balance by connecting the studies of scholars based in the European-North American geography with those attached to the institutions in the Middle East and North Africa in order to stimulate different feminist and decolonial perspectives and debates on art and visual culture from the area.
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• Preface / Micaela Langellotti and Dominc Rathbone
• 1. Introduction / Micaela Langellotti and Dominic Rathbone
• 2. Police procedures and petitions in Roman Egypt : the role of village officials / Roberto Mascellari-- 3. Private associations and village life in early Roman Egypt / Mario C.D. Paganini
• 4. Elders (presbuteroi) of the farmers and of the village in Roman Egypt: the cases of Bacchias and Karanis / Silvia Strassi
• 5. The association of state farmers and its role in village administration in Roman Egypt / Thomas Kruse
• 6. Record-offices in villages in Roman Egypt / Micaela Langellotti
• 7. Village or town? Did it matter for making wills in Roman Egypt? / Maria Nowak
• 8. Private banks in villages of Roman Egypt / François Lerouxel
• 9. Festivals and celebrations in the countryside / Andrea Jördens
• 10. Fiscal institution or local community? The village koinon in Late Antiquity (4th-8th centuries) / Lajos Berkes
• 11. The monastery of Apa Apollo as landowner and employer / Gesa Schenke
• 12. 'Great men', churchmen, and the others: forms of authority in the villages of the Umayyad period / Arietta Papconstantinou

This volume is the first to survey village institutions in Egypt during the first eight centuries AD, from the beginning of Roman rule to the early Arab period. Villages in the ancient Mediterranean world, in contrast to cities, have been little studied and the communal life of the majority rural population is ill understood. The rich evidence of the documentary papyri from Egypt, half of which come from village sites, permits both study of topics in detail and comparisons across time. This volume covers rural institutions including associations, local officials, banks, record-offices, legal procedures, festivals and monasteries. It identifies and discusses recurrent issues and structural changes in the power relationships between the central and regional city-based authorities and the rural population and their representatives in Egypt, and aims to stimulate comparative study of villages in other areas of the ancient world.
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• 1. Continuity, dissonance and location : an Anglosphere research agenda / Andrew Mycock and Ben Wellings
• Part I. Continuity. 2. The Anglosphere as a principle of progress / Michael Gardiner
• 3. Anglospheres : empire redivivus? / Duncan Bell
• 4. The past, present and future of Anglosphere security networks : constitutive reduction of a shared identity / Tim Legrand
• 5. The Anglosphere beyond security / Srdjan Vucetic
• Part II. Dissonance. 6. The political economy of the Anglosphere : geography trumps history / John Ravenhill and Jefferson Huebner
• 7. The Anglosphere and the American embrace : the end of the British Empire and after / Carl Bridge and Bart Zielinski
• 8. CANZUK, the Anglosphere(s) and transnational war commemoration : the centenary of the First World War / Andrew Mycock
• 9. The Anglosphere and indigenous politics / Katherine Smits
• Part III. Location. 10. The Anglo-American worldview and the question of world order / Andrew Gamble
• 11. Churchill, Powell and the conservative 'Bexiteers' : the political legacies of the Anglosphere / Michael Kenny and Nick Pearce
• 12. Underwriting Brexit : the European Union in the Anglosphere imagination / Helen Baxendale and Ben Wellings
• 13. The Anglosphere, race and Brexit / Eva Namusoke

The Anglosphere - a transnational imagined community consisting of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK - came to international prominence in the wake of Brexit. The Anglosphere's origins lie in the British Empire and the conflicts of the 20th century. It encompasses an extensive but ill-defined community bonded by language, culture, media, and 'civilisational' heritage founded on the shared beliefs and practices of free-market economics and liberal democracy. Supporters of the Anglosphere argue that it provides a better 'fit' for English-speaking countries at a time when global politics is in a state of flux and under strain from economic crises, conflict and terrorism, and humanitarian disasters. This edited volume provides the first detailed analyses of the Anglosphere, bringing together leading international academic experts to examine its historical origins and contemporary political, social, economic, military, and cultural manifestations. They reveal that the Anglosphere is underpinned by a range of continuities and discontinuities which are shaped by the location of its five core states. The volume reveals that although the Anglosphere is founded on a common view of the past and the present, it continually seeks to realise a shared future which is never fully attained. The volume thus makes an important contribution to debates about the future of the UK outside of the EU, and the potential for the English-speaking peoples to shape the 21st century.
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• 1. Introduction / Jane E. Everson, Andrew Hiscock and Stefano Jossa
• Part I Before reading - the image. 2. The visualization of the Orlando furioso: from the original editions to modern video art / Lina Bolzoni
• 3. Reading the poem 'in the very picture'; new evidence on Harington's original sin / Luca Degl'Innocenti
• 4. Landscape and seascape: the British Isles and the Orlando furioso / Eleonora Stoppino
• Part II From the Elizabethans to the Enlightenment. 5. 'englishing th'Italian Ariost': the Orlando furioso among the Elizabethans - adaptation and audience / Andrew Hiscock
• 6. Milton and Ariosto / Tobias Gregory
• 7. Ariosto in England in the eighteenth century: from antipathy and ambivalence to enthusiasm / Jane E. Everson
• Part III Gothic and Romantic Ariosto. 8. Ariosto in England in the eighteenth century: from antipathy and ambivalence to enthusiasm / Jane E. Everson
• 9. Lessons in madness: the Orlando furioso on the eighteenth-century operatic stage (with special reference to Handel) / Tim Carter
• 10. Walter Scott and Ariosto's Orlando furioso / Susan Oliver
• 11. Authorizing Ariosto: the construction of Ariosto in early nineteenth-century British periodicals / Maureen McCue
• Part IV Text and translation in the modern era. 12. Antonio Panizzi, textual editor of Ariosto / Marco Dorigatti
• 13. The Furioso in translation: 'lascivious' Ariosto in two modern English versions / Martin McLaughlin
• 14. The Orlando furioso, writing and the construction of meaning / Nicola Gardini
• 15 Entertainment and irony: the Orlando furioso from modern to postmodern / Stefano Jossa.

Marking the fifth centenary of the publication of the first edition of the Italian masterpiece, Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English Culture brings together an international team of Renaissance scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to analyse in detail the diffuse impact which the epic poem had upon English culture from the Tudor century to the present day. Translated into English in the 1590s by Sir John Harington, godson of Elizabeth I, the influence of Ariosto's poem can be traced in literature, music and the visual arts, from Spenser and Milton to modern media adaptations. In addition, the collection reflects upon the ways in which successive editions and translations, examples of critical reception, rewritings and adaptations in different media (in particular opera) all shaped the rich and evolving understanding of the adventures of Orlando, Angelica, Medoro, Olympia, and Sacripante in the cultural and artistic production of England across the centuries.
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• Foreword / by Anne Downey
• Acknowledgements
• Author biographies
• Introduction / Renée Wolcott, Diana E. Marsh, and Amy Noel Ellison
• 1: Charles Willson Peale: artist, scientist, conservator? / Renée Wolcott
• 2: Conservation and Curious Revolutionaries: the Peales of Philadelphia / Renée Wolcott, Diana E. Marsh, and Amy Noel Ellison
• 3: Conservation and the Peale-Sellers Family Collection / Renée Wolcott and Diana E. Marsh
• References
• Appendix A: An annotated checklist for Curious Revolutionaries: The Peales of Philadelphia
• Appendix B: An annotated checklist for Conservation and the Peale-Sellers Family Collection.

The Peale-Sellers Family Collection, held at the APS Library, is the world’s largest archival collection related to the Peales. Two recent American Philosophical Society Museum exhibitions, Curious Revolutionaries and Conservation and the Peale-Sellers Family Collection, included selected items from the collection. The conservation staff reviewed the selected items to ensure that they were stable enough to display for months without fading, discoloring, or suffering physical damage. When books or manuscripts could not be exhibited without conservation treatment, conservators repaired or stabilized them. Conservation of natural specimens and cultural artifacts is essential today, as it was for Charles Willson Peale when he opened his museum in Philosophical Hall. Renée Wolcott tells readers in her introduction, “As the owner of the nation’s first natural history museum, Charles Willson Peale served as both curator and conservator, concerned with selecting specimens for exhibition and preserving them for future museum visitors. He was also his own archivist, saving letters, diaries, and museum records that passed through his family for generations before becoming enshrined in the APS Library. This book examines the materials Peale and his family have left us, considers their preservation challenges, and discusses the evolution of conservation care for archival collections. Case studies of conservation treatment for six historic Peale-related artifacts illustrate some of the ways in which today’s conservators preserve the materials of the past for the sake of the future."--back cover.