Historiography

Videogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating a...

Enlightenment in Scotland and France: Studies in Political Thought provides comparative analysis of the Scottish and French Enlightenments. Studies...

Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, man...

This book explores (mis)representations of two female claimants to the Tudor throne, Lady Jane Grey and Mary I of England. It places Jane's attempt...

This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Guided by three intersecting concepts memory, travelling,...

This collection is the first to integrate insights from life writing studies into the field of memory studies and opens a new chapter in the study ...

This volume presents a subfield overview on current research, trends, and commentary on the state of aeronautical archaeology and its development, ...

Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in...

With its many rites of initiation (religious, educational, professional or sexual), Elizabethan and Jacobean education emphasized both imitation an...

This is not a conventional biography but an attempt to explore the motives and intentions that underpin Talcott Parsons published work by exploring...

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictio...

This title was first published in 2001. Modality and Anti-Metaphysics critically examines the most prominent approaches to modality among analytic ...

The social sciences have, ever since they were first established as academic disciplines, played a foundational role in most spheres of modern soci...

First published in 1997, this second edition of this bibliography contains more than half as many entries again as the original selection of 1966. ...

This study constructs a framework of narratology for art history and rewrites the development of twentieth-century Chinese art from a narratologica...

The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across t...

On 29 December, 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his own cathedral. News of the event was rapidly disseminat...

Originally published in 1976. This comprehensive study discusses in detail the philosophical, mathematical, physical, logical and theological aspec...

This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. The first section examines h...

This book examines British collectors of so-called Persian art (a broad umbrella term then covering a large portion of Islamic art) in the late 19t...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world's foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provid...