New Directions in Boethian Studies

New Directions in Boethian StudiesAs a scholar, senator and consul, whose life was centered in Rome and later in Ravenna, Boethius belonged to two worldsthe world of pagan antiquity and the world of the Christian Middle Agesand his life and work embody and embrace the spirit of both.

Among the many topics discussed here are the difference among specific media formats

leading missionary societies to question the ambivalent legacy of mission schools

This book explores the life courses of children born of war

some were ‘fringe’ events

bals publics and carnival

Alejandro Amenábar makes a serious and socially aware ‘middlebrow’ cinema designed for global audiences

Gabriel offers an analysis of the psychological roots of the American consumer society and points towards a more sustainable future

Uses case studies to demonstrate theoretical and methodological transferability among disciplines not typically thought to be related to one another

the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia

analyzing the history of gendered expectations that have been debated in print from the fourteenth century and continue to influence our present thinking about women’s roles and abilities

An introduction to the textile weavings of southwestern Native Americans

not merely in relation to a broader Irish political and historical narrative