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Virtus
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Virtus 20 (2013)
Virtus is een onafhankelijk en multidisciplinair peer reviewed jaarboek met bijdragen op het gebied van de adelsgeschiedenis.
Neoliberalism, Postmodernity, and the Contemporary Memorial-Building Boom
The book develops a new approach to, and a distinct reading of, the contemporary memorial-building boom which began in the 1980s. Locating the origins of this boom in the crises associated with postmodernity and the rise of neoliberalism, it analyses the complex interplay between neoliberalism, postmodernism and nationalism in some of the most well-known memorials and memorial-museums to have emerged in the USA and Germany over the last four decades. Rather than offering a survey of contemporary memorials, it traces a specific trajectory (and certainly not the only one ripe for analysis): from the postmodern memorials of the 1980s to the increasingly monumental and authoritative memorials an...
Architecture and Elite Culture in the United Provinces, England and Ireland, 1500-1700
This study aims to elucidate concepts of castle in the Netherlands, England and Ireland in both past and present times. The first part of the book examines current, respectively, academic, national and personal appropriations of 'castle'; the second part moves into the past, juxtaposing elite culture and the spatial organisation of 16th and 17th century domestic architecture.
Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World
A new interpretation of Nemrud Dağ, a key Hellenistic monument which encompasses both Greek and Persian elements.
Healing and Harm
Professor Mary Lindemann inspired several generations of historical researchers in early modern history and culture. She has served as president of the German Studies Association and the American Historical Association and is the author of pathbreaking scholarly work in the history of medicine, urban space, diplomacy, and of women. In honor of her scholarship, service, and dedication, Healing and Harm gathers a group of leading scholars that includes her students, contemporaries, and those who have been inspired by her work to continue Lindemann’s prolific arguments and observations on early modern, central European and German history and culture.
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