Animating the Antique

Sculptural Encounter in the Age of Aesthetic Theory

Sarah Betzer

“Animating the Antique is painstaking, original, and uncompromising. Weaving art history with aesthetics, the history of archaeology and of collections, and other topics, Betzer’s study of the figuration of sculpture in two-dimensional representations sets a unique insight into a multifaceted framework.”—Whitney Davis, author of Replications: Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis

Playful Pictures

Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home

Chriscinda Henry

“Playful Pictures provides a rich and welcome study of secular Venetian domestic paintings, many of which are familiar to art historians but have not been connected fully to the literary, social, and performative worlds of Venetian culture. Henry brings a well-researched interdisciplinary perspective and vividly re-creates the viewing contexts for these paintings.”—Jodi Cranston, author of Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice

Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates

Witch-Hunting in Navarre, 1608–1614

Lu Ann Homza

“Homza’s research brings to the table a wealth of materials previously neglected or overlooked. . . . This remarkably readable, comprehensive, insightful and nuanced study deserves a wide audience.”—Richard L. Kagan, author of Lucrecia’s Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon

Adam Franklin-Lyons

“Franklin-Lyons shows a truly virtuosic command of a very diverse and complicated set of primary sources. Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon is so legible and lively that a reader unfamiliar with the evidence might not recognize what a truly impressive accomplishment this is in terms of archival work.”—Jeffrey A. Bowman, author of Shifting Landmarks: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia around the Year 1000

The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books by Elina Gertsman is the winner of this year’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from CAA.

Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna, by Babette Bohn is the category winner of the 46th Annual PROSE Award in Art History & Criticism from the Association of American Publishers.

Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole by Matthew Reeve has received the Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1600–1800 from the Historians of British Art.

Religion Around John Donne by Joshua Eckhart received a John Donne Society Award for Distinguished Publication.

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Journal of Information Policy, one of our two open access titles, recently published a special issue of papers presented at a conference. This annual journal brings contemporary research and analysis of significant information policy issues to the attention of policymakers in a timely fashion. Click here to view the journal.

Elementary Education in Early Second Millennium BCE Babylonia

Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman

Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered a crucial part of scribal training due to its cultural importance. In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities.

Excavations in the City of David, Jerusalem (1995–2010)

Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron

“There is no way to decipher the history of Ancient Israel without the archaeology of Jerusalem, with no access to the Temple Mount, there is no way to understand the archaeology and history of Jerusalem without the City of David ridge, and there is no way to study the City of David without the results of the Reich/Shukron excavations. This volume is therefore a landmark in the archaeology of Jerusalem and the Land of Israel.”—Israel Finkelstein, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University

BrainComix

Script by Jean-Franĉois Marmion, and Illustrated by Monsieur B

“Fun and forensic. . . . The brain as organ, the brain as self, the brain in all its glory.”—Bob Fingerman, author of Dotty’s Inferno and Minimum Wage

Script by Jane Deuxard, Art by Deloupy

“Bold and irresistible.”—Publishers Weekly