This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the question of the construction and transfer of knowledge about man and nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.  Meer

Doing Cultural History sheds light on the inspirational power of the concepts of Cultural History to young academics.  Meer

Ancient Egypt as we know it with all its wonders like pyramids and temples wouldn't have existed without the Nile. The first recent attempt to explain the importance of this natural phenomenon for the culture of pharaonic Egypt.  Meer

Fighting and warfare is hardly imaginable without the use of the "resource" body. The body techniques of fighters and their perception take centre stage in this book.  Meer

The musical pastiche of the 18th century reconsidered in a collection of musicological and interdisciplinary essays, written by renowned specialists.  Meer

The articles present forms and practices of divergent behaviour in different types of source material in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.  Meer

What is the current state of research in European cultural history? Are there developments that rewrite this approach to history? This volume discusses these and other fundamental questions and provides initial answers.  Meer

In the book musicologists and historians examine music migrations between elite and everyday musicians' mobilities during the 17th and 18th centuries.  Meer