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Work and labour are integral to an understanding of Roman society. Taking its cue from New Institutional Economics, this book deals with the wide range of factors shaping work and labour in the cities of Roman Italy, from families and familial structures, to labour collectives, slavery, education and apprenticeship.

A Spanish critical edition and English translation of Lope de Vega's La discreta enamorada with introduction (discussing conventions of comedy, the comedia de capa y espada and its variation known as the comedia urbana, the political, social, and economic contexts of early 17th-century Madrid), explanatory notes, and textual variants.

This volume brings together the most significant essays on South African literature by the distinguished critic Graham Pechey, who died in 2016. They combine an acute sense of the historical and geopolitical situation of South African writing before, during, and after apartheid with a sensitive ear to literary detail.

Starting with a focus on past objects, this volume brings together essays from art historians, historians, archaeologists, literary scholars and museum curators to reveal the different disciplinary approaches and methods taken to the study of objects and what this can reveal about transformations in material culture 1000-1700.

Ovid's calendar poem the Fasti is a vivid journey through ancient Rome via the calendar. The reader triumphantly tours the monuments of the Augustan-era city, witnesses urban and rustic seasonal festivals, and commemorates epic events of history and myth. Includes Latin text, English prose translation, introduction, and extensive commentary.

Libanius of Antioch (AD 314-93), teacher and rhetorician, was one of late antiquity's most prolific letter writers. This volume contains the first English-language translation of all 273 letters written between 388 and 393. They provide insights into his professional and personal circumstances as well as the political and social environment of the age.

Sounds Senses takes sound as a point of departure for engaging the francopphone postcolonial condition. Offering a synthetic overview of sound studies, the book dismantles the oculocentrism and retinal paradigms of francophone postcolonial studies. It introduces two primary theoretical thrusts - the unheard and the unintegrated - to the project of analyzing, extending, and rejuvenating francophone postcolonial studies.

The essays of this volume examine physical culture in literature written in French from around the Francophone world, focusing on texts from a wide variety of periods and genres in order to consider the fundamental - yet highly neglected - place of athletic activities in literature and culture from the French-speaking world.

In 1234, four mendicant friars arrived in the Byzantine city of Nicaea to discuss the possibility of a union between the Greek and Roman Churches. Brought together, these sources represent the largest collection of material describing any dialogue between the churches in the thirteenth century.

This interdisciplinary collection explores how Irish people - both at home and abroad - thought about the future during the long nineteenth century. It showcases new scholarship on utopian and dystopian visions, and includes chapters on Ireland and empire, emigration, female agency, the Irish language, and on technology as a modernizing force.

This volume argues that our oldest styles of poetic articulation - the elegy, the ode, the hymn - have figured all too briefly in modern genealogies of the lyric poem, and have proved especially popular among experimental poets since 1945. Their recourse to familiar forms and shapes of thought should prompt us to reconsider late modernism as a crucial phase in the evolving history of lyric.

Migrant Representations pairs twenty-four carefully selected histories in order to compare how migrants themselves - Irish labourer, Lithuanian refugee or Indian doctor - and their social investigators capture in words and images defining private and historical moments.

Charting new territory in filmmaking technologies and Steven Spielberg's oeuvre, MinorityReport (2002) portrays a dystopian near-future that comments on our increasingly science-fictional world and pays homage to the history of SF cinema. In this comprehensive monograph, D. Harlan Wilson recounts the film's inception, production, reception, and afterlife since its release in 2002 while depicting it as a symptom of contemporary media pathology, post-9/11 paranoia, consumer-capitalist aggression, religious mania, and above all, the screen culture that has come to define the human condition. At the same time, Wilson explores the many self-reflexive flourishes that render the movie a commentary on Spielberg's style and the precession of the SF genre.

This book scrutinizes the events of 1919 from below: the global underside of the Wilsonian moment. This process began prior to war's end with mutinies, labour and consumer unrest, colonial revolt but reached a high point in 1919.

The Masque of the Red Death (1964), the seventh collaboration between producer-director Roger Corman and horror icon Vincent Price, became the crowning achievement for both men, their masterpiece.

Moving Verses analyses the relationship between poetry and cinema in Argentina. How do film and poetry transform each another when placed into productive dialogue? Case-studies include Argentina's most exciting and radical contemporary directors as well as established modern masters, with a critical framework drawing on contemporary studies of intermediality and "impure" cinema.

Iberian and Translation Studies: Literary Contact Zones brings together a variety of essays by multilingual scholars whose conceptual and empirical research places itself at the intersection of translation and literary Iberian studies, thus opening up a new interdisciplinary field of enquiry: Iberian translation studies.

This book examines themes of exile, mobility, and identity in contemporary autofictional narratives written in French by women writers from across the francophone world. It reads exile in light of both gender and literary genre, arguing that autofiction gives women the space to reconfigure their exile on their own terms.

Ars Judaica is an annual publication of the Department of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. It showcases the Jewish contribution to the visual arts and architecture from antiquity to the present from a variety of perspectives, including history, iconography, semiotics, psychology, sociology, and folklore.

This book provides the first detailed study of healthcare during the period of the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1968-1998). While there have been some studies of the effects of conflict in the context of Northern Ireland, to date there have been no in-depth histories of the impact of the Troubles on healthcare and the experiences of healthcare professionals. Ruth Duffy's work combines analysis of archival research and oral history interviews to reveal the widespread impact of the conflict on healthcare facilities, their staff, and patients, as well as the broader societal implications of providing services during the Troubles. The book allows the voices of those who worked on the frontline to be heard for the first time, as well as exploring important issues such as medical ethics and neutrality. It offers new and valuable insights into the cost of the Northern Ireland conflict and its legacy today.

This book is an innovative exploration of nineteenth-century family life and society. The first study of its kind, it uses the sibling relationship as a window into Irish society in the past. Employing a creative genealogical methodology, Shannon Devlin pieces together the lives of twenty-five sibling sets from Ulster, allowing for an exploration of power, emotion and gender in the family. She considers families from both Catholic and Protestant backgrounds and in urban and rural contexts, shedding new light on the Ulster middle classes during a century of rapid social and economic change.Through its emphasis on horizontal family relationships, the book uncovers the lived experiences of individuals and reveals how the family could help navigate the social hierarchies and gendered power structures underpinning middle-class society. It complicates our understanding of family dynamics, household formation and cultural performances of sociability, and offers an exciting new perspective on aspects of the lifecycle, marriage practices, inheritance, family finances and Irish middle-class mobility. Exploring the influence of brothers and sisters on everyday life, Siblinghood and Sociability in Nineteenth-Century Ulster provides a unique insight into the ways in which family loyalties and obligations intersected with personal reputation, aspiration and ambition.