Saints at Play

Saints at PlayStudy of twenty eight French nonbiblical hagiographic mystery plays from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the approach is intended to strengthen a comparative analysis of relatively similar texts created within a particular cultural setting.

Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women’s material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries

the reach of institutional charities such as almshouses

and the United States

have increased its interest and relevance

Technological change in broadcasting has enabled us to open up media markets

was ‘superstition’

both works speak with the same distinctive voice

The House of Lords is widely discussed but little understood

and its impact on Western visitors and collectors

Starting with the astonishing lone-wolf terrorist attacks in Oslo and Utøyain July 2011 and the extraordinary mutation in security thinking that happened in its aftermath

sociologists and economists

the essays included here are sophisticated and richly analytic