Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo - Prijzen

Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

In the 1930s and '40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world, introducing many to ballet as an art form, while spreading the enduring image of the ballerina as an em...

Ballerina Around Italy- Ballerina around Italy

The Cult of the Saints

In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During th...

Making Personas

The film star is not simply an actor but a historical phenomenon that derives from the production of an actor's attractiveness, the circulation of his or her name and likeness, and the support of medi...

Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!!

German writer, critic, and theorist Paul Scheerbart died nearly a century ago, but his influence is still being felt today. Considered by some a mad eccentric and by others an important visionary in h...

Gendering Modern Japanese History

In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has suggested important revisions of the master narratives of natio...