The Middle Ages integrated the human senses and unified their media into a culture of saturated sensation. The saturated sensoriùm nurtured princ…

This book describes the architectural restoration of the monumental Ghurid portal of the Friday Mosque of Herat, Afghanistan - a remnant of the origin…

The church-builders of the Middle Ages treated the architecture of ancient Rome like a quarry full of prefabricated building materials. This resulted…

Danish Medieval Castles is the first comprehensive overview in English of the castles and fortifications that are known from medieval Denmark. The boo…

"Elephants are not picked from trees" are the words of Swedish taxidermist and conservator David Sjölander, spoken while he was in Angola looking for…

Who were and who are the European Other(s), and how have their socio-cultural circumstances been aesthetically expressed and discussed in works of lit…

In presenting 25 industrial sites of national significance in the context of changing techno-economic paradigms, this book considers the development…

Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto is a short stop-motion puppet film that has won awards at international film festivals in a number of countries and…

Drawing on both textual and archaeological sources, this book discusses how Christians in Late Antiquity negotiated the sculptural environment of citi…

The present monograph takes its place in a now well-established tradition of seeing sarcophagi as visual statements of deceased individuals that used…

Historical political biography is a popular genre, capable of reaching a wide audience. It is also a genre closely associated with the modern nation-s…

When Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany and its allies in April 1941, what followed was as much a Yugoslav civil war as a war of occupation and li…