Translating Early Modern Science

Fransen Sietske

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 51
• Translating Early Modern Science explores the roles of translation and the practices of translators in early modern Europe. In a period when multiple ... Lees meer

Contesting Europe

Detering Nicholas

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 67
• While the term 'Europe' was used sporadically in ancient and medieval times, it proliferated between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and gained... Lees meer

Personification

Melion Walter

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 41
• Personification, or prosopopeia , the rhetorical figure by which something not human is given a human identity or 'face', is readily discernible in ea... Lees meer

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Horstmanshoff Manfred

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 25
• The history of anatomy has been the subject of much recent scholarship. This volume shifts the focus to the many different ways in which the function ... Lees meer

One Marriage Under God

Melanie Heath

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 16
• The meaning and significance of the institution of marriage has engendered angry and boisterous battles across the United States. While the efforts of... Lees meer

The Tolerance Trap

Suzanna Danuta Walters

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 3
• From Glee to gay marriage, from lesbian senators to out gay Marines, we have undoubtedly experienced a seismic shift in attitudes about gays in Americ... Lees meer

Discovering the Riches of the Word

Corbellini Sabrina

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 38
• The contributions to Discovering the Riches of the Word. Religious Reading in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe offer an innovative approach to th... Lees meer

Gone to Ground

Emily Brownell

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 6
• Gone to Ground is an investigation into the material and political forces that transformed the cityscape of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in the 1970s and e... Lees meer

A New Ecological Order

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 12
• The rise of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century forged a new ecological order in North American and Western European states, radically tra... Lees meer

Fat Gay Men

Jason Whitesel

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 1
• To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture can be difficult. Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men-chubs, bears, cubs-the anti-fat stig... Lees meer

Queering the Countryside

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 11
• Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete wi... Lees meer

The Artist as Reader: On Education and Non-Education of Early Modern Artists

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 27
• Reading is apparently the greatest proof of refinement when viewed within the context of the social climb of the visual artist. It is only as reader t... Lees meer

Beyond Monogamy

Mimi Schippers

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 13
• A man and woman are in an open relationship. They have agreed that having sexual partners outside of their relationship is permissible. One night, whe... Lees meer

Sperm Counts

Lisa Jean Moore

• Paperback | Engels | Intersections | nr. 17
• 2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the Passing the Torch Award from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies It has been called sperm, sem... Lees meer

The Low Countries as a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs

Gelderblom

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 3
• Situated at the crossroads of important trade routes, the bustling seaports of the Low Countries not only traded cargoes of grain and timber, silk and... Lees meer

Portuguese Humanism and the Republic of Letters

Aronson Friedman Amy

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 21
• This volume focuses on the interdisciplinary investigation of Portuguese humanism, especially as a noteworthy player in the international network of e... Lees meer

Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education

Enenkel Karl

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 32
• This volume tries to map out the intriguing amalgam of the different, partly conflicting approaches that shaped early modern zoology. Early modern rea... Lees meer

Misogynoir Transformed

Moya Bailey

• Paperback | Engels | Intersections | nr. 18
• Where racism and sexism meet--an understanding of anti-Black misogyny When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir , she defined it as the ways a... Lees meer

When They Hid the Fire

Daniel French

• Paperback | Engels | Intersections | nr. 2
• When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth an... Lees meer

Transplanting Modernity?

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 7
• In general, "development" denotes movement or growth toward something better in the future. International development--widespread in the decades follo... Lees meer

The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts

Keizer Joost

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 19
• In response to the dominance of Latin as the language of intellectual debate in early modern Europe, regional centers started to develop a new emphasi... Lees meer

Field Life

Jeremy Vetter

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 1
• Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s,... Lees meer

The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Desplenter Youri

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 52
• Over the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, as more and more vernacular commentaries on the Decalogue were produced throughout Europe, ... Lees meer

The Atomic Archipelago

Davide Orsini

• Hardcover | Engels | Intersections | nr. 16
• In 1972, the US Navy installed a base for nuclear submarines in the Archipelago of La Maddalena off the northeastern shore of Sardinia, Italy. In resp... Lees meer