Ian Richard Netton 
Golden Roads: Migration, pilgrimage [EPUB ebook] 

Dedicated to the late Gerard Béhague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed extensively to ethnomusicological discourse in th …

Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre provides a comprehensive examination of this aesthetic theory. The author investigates this aesthetic history as a form of artistic creation, ph …

Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti’s text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus — particularly his Vision of God (1450) — this study reveals a shared ep …

The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state that emerges during the reception of texts and artefacts, it amounts to the reader» …

This title was first published in 2002. »Memory and Desire» is a lavishly illustrated account of the art world in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. It calls upon rich resources of conte …

Social dance was ubiquitous in interwar Britain. The social mingling and expression made possible through non-theatrical participatory dancing in couples and groups inspired heated commentary, both v …

Based on meticulous archival research, Dennis M. Read»s study offers the most accurate and thorough account to date of the engraver, editor, and arts enthusiast R. H. Cromek. Though he is best known …

Once described as »England»s Apollo» James Brydges, first Duke of Chandos (1674-1744) was an outstanding patron of the arts during the first half of the eighteenth century. Having acquired great w …

This collection of essays makes an important contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven into popular entertainment on the early modern s …

In this study, Kari Boyd Mc Bride defines »country house discourse» as a network of fictions that articulated and mediated early modern concerns about the right use of land and the social relations …