This collection of essays contributes to the growing field of ‘encounter studies’ within the domain of cultural history. The strength of this work is the mu
Written by an international group of highly regarded scholars and rooted in the field of intermedial approaches to literary studies, this volume explores the co
A bold and field-defining exploration of the cultural and religious origins of Britain's small gods, fairies and other supernatural beings.
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance It
This book describes how and why the early modern period witnessed the marginalisation of astrology in Western natural philosophy, and the re-adoption of the cos
