The fifteenth-century prose composition the Roman de Perceforest is one of the most successful literary works of the later Middle Ages. In a grandiose six-part fresco, the work evokes the adventures of the distant ancestors of Arthur ...

This book begins with the meeting between the Eucharist and the New World. The conflict between Catholics and Huguenots, and the conflict over the real and substantial presence of Christ in the wine and bread of communion was transported to Brazil, ...

Claude-François Menestrier of the Society of Jesus was undoubtedly the most important and prolific seventeenth-century theoretical writer on symbolic imagery and spectacle. His treatises cover such diverse topics as ancient ballet...

Table of Contents : Laurence Grove and Alison Saunders, Introduction: Transmigrations ; Noël Peacock, " Alison Adams and Stephen Rawles: A Biographical Note " ; Julie Makinson, “ Alison Adams and Stephen Rawles: A Bibliography of Publications ”...

The esthetic and ethical values of the Spanish Golden Age deeply affected burlesque literature and its artistic status. Burlesque writing challenged readers with its mix of erudite poetry with ridiculous characters alongside mythological heroes...

Franco-Russian relations have been an important part of European history. However, historians have mainly concentrated on either the Enlightenment or the Russian Revolution, neglecting the period between 1789 and 1917...