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To celebrate the work of Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) in the quatercentenary year of his birth, Augustine, Pertile and Zwicker combine the best historical scholarship with a varied and ambitious critical programme, as contributors map the enduring pleasures and challenges of reading and re-reading this shrewd and often brilliant writer.

In early modern Europe, literature and literate knowledge were produced within societies organised along hierarchical lines. What difference did that make to literature and literate knowledge? How were they inflected by social hierarchy? This volume asks these questions of genres, disciplines, practices, and writers ranging across Western Europe.

A Renaissance Reclaimed reconsiders an 'essay' (Versuch) seen by many as the greatest work of cultural history ever written: the Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) by the Swiss Jacob Burckhardt. The contributors also investigate the ways in which this work was also a product of its time and place.

This volume provides the first assessment of the blurred relationship between Plato and Aristotle between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Assuming a transnational and emic perspective, the case studies discussed in this volume explore the complex and ambiguous interplay between the two ancient philosophers' systems of thought.

Buddhism and Its Religious Others examines how Buddhist literature and art from pre-modern Asia understand and represent the character and value of other religions. It looks at the strategies employed by Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian Buddhists to challenge and claim authority over traditions that opposed Buddhism and its influence.

Business involvement in human rights violations has been part of the past, the present, and will likely continue in the future. A legacy of impunity has prevailed globally. Using case studies and original datasets, this volume seeks to understand how corporate accountability for human rights violations has been achieved and what barriers persist.

Neoplatonism forms part of the common heritage of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim cultures of the greater Mediterranean and left its mark on the region's poets. The verses composed from Late Antiquity to the modern period, in the seven languages which were representative of the region, confirm the cross-cultural relevance of Neoplatonic thought.

Representing Homelessness analyses the representation and self-representation of homelessness. The volume features research from the Arts, Humanities, Sciences and the Social Sciences, as well as writings by people with lived experience of homelessness.

Time on a Human Scale offers an ambitious new assessment of how modern Europeans understood time and human experience through studies of politics, art, literature, music, and culture of Western Europe between the 1860s and 1930s.

The book identifies a new human rights phenomenon. While disappearances have tended to be associated with authoritarian state and armed conflict periods, this study looks at these acts carried out in procedural democracies where democratic institutions prevail.

This book challenges that assumption by exploring the ways in which song crosses national borders. Whether by incorporating foreign canons of poetry alongside native ones, or conveying literature across linguistic borders through acts of performance, song functions as a means of translation.

This book develops an interdisciplinary analysis of the institutional, cultural and political-economic factors shaping crime and punishment so as better to understand whether, and if so how and why, social and economic inequality influences levels and types of crime and punishment, and conversely whether crime and punishment shape inequalities.

This volume contains nine British Academy lectures delivered during 1991, and 19 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.

Under the Skin examines contemporary women's art from the Middle East and North Africa, introducing the latest scholarship on art production, histories and methods in approaching modern and contemporary visual culture.

This book brings together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to examine what it means to be vulnerable, to care and be cared for, within conditions of inequality, violence and crisis across the globe.

Authored by scholars, practitioners and scholar-practitioners, this volume marshals a kaleidoscope of perspectives on peace and peacemaking.

This book explores how conflicts between secular worldviews and religions shaped the history of the 20th century.

This is a ground-breaking volume into the phenomenon of migration in and to England over the medieval millennium. A series of subject specialists synthesise and extend recent research in a wide range of disciplines and marks an important contribution to medieval studies, and to modern debates on migration and the free movement of people.

This is the first survey of village institutions in Egypt during this period and includes associations, local officials, banks record-offices, legal procedures, festivals and monasteries. The continuing and changing elements in the power relationships between central and regional authorities and the rural population contribute to village studies.

Interdisciplinary Barthes addresses the enduring stimulus that Barthes offers to intellectually adventurous work across the human sciences. It contextualises his creative engagements with ethnology, historiography, philosophy, ethics, music, photography, and literature, and traces the distinctive ways which he unsettled disciplinary boundaries.

This book explores emotional responses to total war with a focus on the modern European experience. Examining particular wartime locations, and mapping national and transnational emotional cultures, the book suggests new ways of deploying emotion historically as an analytical device.

This book explores the potential of the Anglosphere - a transnational imagined community of the English-speaking peoples - which came to international prominence in the wake of Brexit. The volume considers how the Anglosphere is redefining global politics in the 21st century and shaping the United Kingdom's future outside of the European Union.

This book reveals a high degree of organisational capacity in early medieval societies. It outlines a new agenda for assessing and interpreting early medieval power, how it was formed, how it functioned and how it developed across time providing the basis for the kingdoms of the European Middle Ages.

Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe examines the consequences of the sixteenth-century Reformation for the study of ancient texts and of the past in general. The volume offers the most comprehensive account thus far of the relationship between religious identity-formation and the history of knowledge in early modern Europe.

The Music Road (the western half of the famous "Silk Road") explores transmissions, migrations and discourses of music, dance and theatre in the area between the Mediterranean and India, from the first to the 20th century. This scholarly panorama explores this cultural world and considers its fascinating inner diversity.

Since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws, firms, and theories seem to 'evolve' through sequences of variation, selection, and replication, in many ways just like living organisms. These essays consider whether modern evolutionary theory can help us to understand the dynamics of different cultural domains.

This new study of the history and archaeology of Central Asia is crucial for our understanding of the ancient and early medieval world. The period from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the arrival of Islam was one of change and conflict between settled peoples and new arrivals, city-dwellers and nomads.

Changing Names investigates, in relation to the ancient Greek world, the ways in which preferences in personal name-giving change: through shifts in population, cultural contact and imperialism, the popularity of new gods, celebrity status of individuals, increased openness to external influence, and shifts in local fashion.

Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy provides an overview of research methods that academics and researchers can use to investigate forced labour, human trafficking, and slavery in the global economy. It seeks to aid our understanding of exploited labour and explore the mechanisms through which businesses profit from it.

The Orlando Furioso remains a masterpiece of Italian literature and stands as a key contribution to European Renaissance culture as a whole. This collection brings together cutting-edge research by international scholars and examines why Ariosto's magnum opus continues to excite cultural interest even today.