Historiography

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

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...

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...

The 20th and 21st Centuries have been characterized by theologians and philosophers rethinking theology and revitalizing the tradition. This unique...

Arnold Bake (1899–1963) was a Dutch pioneer in South Asian ethnomusicology, whose research impressed not only the most renowned Indologists of his ...

For better and worse, the future is often conceived in technological terms. Technology is supposed to meet the challenge of climate change or resou...

In a hyper-individualistic age and in the face of the narrowly focused, policy-oriented research ubiquitous in the social sciences, this book revis...

This is the first study specifically concerned with thirteenth-century pipe rolls and shows how pipe rolls were compiled, what they contain, and ho...

This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty trans...

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s, Millard Meiss (1904–1975) developed a new and multi-faceted meth...

This book presents a series of case studies and reflections on the historiographical assumptions, methods and approaches that shape the way in whic...

The history and philosophy of scientific ideas and the role poiēsis and imagination play in our understanding of science and progress are widely ex...

This volume brings together eleven case studies that address how the night became visible in the long and global eighteenth century through differe...