This volume originates from an international conference (Oxford University, 2007). Texts address plaster casts and related themes from antiquity to the present day, and from Egypt to America, Mexico and New Zealand.

The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic texts.

The sixteen contributions collected in this volume examine such portrayals in a broad variety of historiographical, biographical, and poetic texts.

Der Band präsentiert eine neue Sicht von Mediävisten unterschiedlicher Disziplinen auf die Kontinuität der Antike in das sogenannte Mittelalter. Er verfolgt das parallele Nebeneinander von Antike und Christentum im 5. und 6.

This volume investigates the changes in the concept of sympathy as well as its rhetorical, poetical and ethical functions from antiquity to the threshold of Romanticism.

This volume sheds new light on the formative phase of Scandinavian scholarship shaped by Olof Rudbeck's baroque history of the world, 'Atlantica' (4 vols, 1679-1702).

Beyond Reception applies a new concept for analyzing cultural change, 'transformation', to the study of Renaissance humanism.

This volume originates from an international conference (Oxford University, 2007). Texts address plaster casts and related themes from antiquity to the present day, and from Egypt to America, Mexico and New Zealand.

This volume sheds new light on the formative phase of Scandinavian scholarship shaped by Olof Rudbeck's baroque history of the world, 'Atlantica' (4 vols, 1679-1702).

This book considers the story of Nero and Octavia, as told in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia and the works of ancient historiographers, and its reception in (early) modern opera and some related examples of other performative genres.