Publications
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Building and Economic Growth in Southern Europe (1050–1300)
(2024)
The four-volume sub-series ‘Petrifying Wealth’ explores the sudden ubiquity of masonry construction between 1050 and 1300 in Southern Europe and its profound effect on the European landscape. New questions about wealth, ...
Bayuda and its Neighbours
(2021)
The Bayuda, although an arid desert located in modern-day Sudan, has nonetheless been inhabited, farmed, worshipped in, and fought over by humans from the Palaeolithic onwards. Yet despite the longevity of its human ...
The Archaeology of War
(2024)
From graves to settlements, and from the battlefield to underwater sacrificial sites, weapons dating to the Roman and Migration Period have long been found in an array of contexts throughout the region that forms modern-day ...
Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies
(2023)
Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies is the first anthology to combine environmental humanities approaches and the study of premodern Nordic literature and culture. The chapters gathered here present innovative research based ...
Pietro Metastasio’s Operatic Storm
(2024)
Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782) can be considered as the most renowned operatic dramatist of eighteenth-century Europe. His drammi per musica travelled all around Europe – and beyond – throughout the eighteenth century and ...
Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions
(2024)
Bad arguments have never been in short supply. The scholarly interest they have elicited in recent years, on the other hand, is quite exceptional. Fallacy studies have become a well established and flourishing field of ...
Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages
(2020)
Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100-170 AD) is one of the most influential scholars of all time. While he is also the author of treatises on geography, optics and harmonics, his fame primarily stems from two works on the science of ...
Monuments & Memory: Christian Cult Buildings and Constructions of the Past
(2016)
This volume honours Sible de Blaauw on the occasion of his re- tirement from Radboud University. It is above all a tribute to an influential and respected voice in the field of early Christian art and ar- chitecture. ...
Images in the Borderlands
(2022)
This volume offers a unique exploration into the cultural history of the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period by examining the region through the prism of Christian-Muslim encounters and conflicts and the way in which ...