Leprosy and identity in the Middle Ages

Leprosy and identity in the Middle AgesThis book presents new, cross disciplinary research on leprosy in medieval Europe, focusing on questions of identity. It reveals complex responses to the disease, challenging earlier views that medieval sufferers were uniformly stigmatised. The social, religious and cultural impacts are explored, as are post medieval perspectives.

This is the first academic study to address ancient Egypt as it was appropriated across disparate literary modes during the Victorian era

'The Atlas of Climate Change Impact on European Cultural Heritage' is comprised of a vulnerability atlas and its accompanying guidelines

questioning the very distinct concepts of these two great poets and how they are related

There is no-one else in theatre who takes this position There is a lack of books on serious theatre theory Written in a particularly accessible form

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This book demonstrates that the ‘subversiveness’ assumed in China’s and India’s rise in the life sciences reflects many of the regulatory challenges that are shared globally

The book combines an examination of the BBC's desire to construct a strong

The essays here recount and explore the prison experience of writers

Glasgow and Seville

the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries

This book remains an invaluable resource for the study of the material culture of Abbasid life in the ninth and tenth centuries

An essential primer for the reader looking to understand the consequences of the war with Ukraine for Russia's regional relationships with bordering countries and Russia’s place in the world beyond the binary East–West tensions