Thomas Arentzen & Mary B. Cunningham 
Reception of the Virgin in Byzantium [PDF ebook] 
Marian Narratives in Texts and Images

"The Children of France" is a powerful slogan that evokes national identity, tenacity, and hope. His writing helps individuals connect with and understand one another. It has historically …

"Holland" is a historical novel written by Thomas Colley Grattan. The novel, set against the backdrop of the 16th-century Dutch War of Independence, provides a vivid and dramatic picture of …

Since the publication of Edward Said»s groundbreaking work Orientalism 35 years ago, numerous studies have explored the West»s fraught and enduring fascination with the so-called Orient. Focusing …

Francis L. Hawks’s "The Adventures of Daniel Boone" is an interesting biographical tale about the well-known lifestyles and adventures of Daniel Boone, a crucial American frontiersman. …

How are love and emotion embodied in material form? Love Objects explores the emotional potency of things, addressing how objects can function as fetishes, symbols and representations, active …

The main themes of this volume are the identification of »visions», »messages», and »meanings» in various facets of Byzantine culture and the possible differences in the perception of these …

We don»t just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces we inhabit. We are born, work, love and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent it and squat in it, create …

Maris Boyd Gillette»s groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China»s porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dynasty China to the present day. Gillette explores how …

A wedding couple gazes resolutely at viewers from the wings of a butterfly; a portrait surrounded by rose petals commemorates a recently deceased boy. These quiet but moving images represent th …

During the course of the 19th century, a relatively modern medium entered the private space of Iranian houses of the wealthy and became a popular feature of interior design in Persia. This was print …