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Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750

Author:Moran Sarah, Pipkin Amanda
Publisher:Brill
Abstract: Women were fundamental actors in early modern Low Countries society, playing major roles in the dyn…

Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World

Author:Faini Marco, Meneghin Alessia
Publisher:Brill
Abstract: This volume sets out to explore the world of domestic devotions and is premised on the assumption t…

Nicholas of Cusa and the Kairos of Modernity: Cassirer, Gadamer, Blumenberg

Author:Edward Moore Michae
Publisher:punctum books
Abstract: In this far-reaching essay, historian Michael Edward Moore examines modernity as an historical epoc…

The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China

Author:Pagenstecher Olberding Garret
Publisher:De Gruyter
Abstract: This volume is distinctive for its extraordinarily interdisciplinary investigations into a little d…

Modern Folk Devils

Author:Harboe Knudsen Ida, Frederiksen Martin Demant
Publisher:Helsinki University Press
Abstract: The devilish has long been integral to myths, legends, and folklore, firmly located in the relation…

Sonic Modernities in the Malay World : A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s)

Author:Barendregt B
Publisher:Brill
Abstract: Sonic Modernities analyses the interplay between the production of popular music, shifting ideas of…

Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy

Author:Widerquist Karl, McCall Gran
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Abstract: This book looks at how modern philosophers pass on myths about prehistory.~Why do political philoso…

Chapter Lodovico Nocentini: A Rereader of Modern Italian Travellers to China

Author:De Angeli Aglaia
Publisher:Firenze University Press
Abstract: In 1882, Nocentini published Il primo sinologo: P. Matteo Ricci. The first secular biography of the…

Chapter 5 The ‘hell of modern sound’

Author:Smith Martyn Davi
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Abstract: Contemporary Japan is loud. Many scholars have argued that the Japanese have a cultural propensity …

Chapter 12 The Genesis of Behaviorally Modern Homo sapiens

Author:Theroux Steven J
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Abstract: This book is a “big history” of the evidence regarding how we came to be. It briefly explores phil…
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