This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico.

What do medieval Icelanders mean when they say "troll"? What did they see when they saw a troll? What did the troll signify to them? And why did they see them?

Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the centu

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