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Painted Words

Painted Words presents a facsimile, decipherment, and analysis of a seventeenth-century pictographic catechism from colonial Mexico, preserved as Fonds ...

The New Testament in Byzantium

Authors draw upon the current state of textual scholarship and explore aspects of the New Testament, particularly as it was read, heard, imaged, and imagined ...

The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century

The essays in this volume examine the botanical ambitions of eighteenth-century empires; the figure of the botanical explorer; the links between imperial ...

Justinianic Mosaics of Hagia Sophia and Their Aftermath

The architectural jewel of Constantinople is the church of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), constructed 532–537 CE. Although the edifice built by Justinian remains ...

Making Value, Making Meaning

This volume adopts the concept of techné as an analytic tool useful for understanding how the production process created value and meaning for social valuables ...

Sign and Design

Contributors apply cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives to the pictorial dimension of writing systems and imagistic scripts of the ancient and ...

Holes in the Head

This volume, presents the results of a long-term research project that examined more than 800 trepanned skulls, examines trepanation in ancient Peru from a ...

North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam

This volume examines elements of Romano-African identity that provided continuity in a period of remarkable transition and seeks to understand the ...

Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa

The essays in this volume present a range of landscapes to explore what we know of precolonial and later indigenous designed landscapes, how these landscapes ...

Letters of a Dead Man

In 1826, the prince of Pückler-Muskau embarked on a tour of England, Wales, and Ireland. For over two years, his letters home conveyed a vivid, often quirky, ...