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In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance. Conventional scholarship traces this controversy back to the Middle Ages. Throughou

This book investigates the origins and transformations of medieval image culture and its reflections in theology, hagiography, historiography and art. It deals

According to the conventional wisdom American constitutional democracy stemmed from Athenian democracy, Roman Law, English legal practices, and the Magna Carta.

Why do people attack monuments and other public objects charged with authority by the societies that produced them? What do open assaults on images and artworks

Engaging with the imaginative, nonreligious response to Gothic sculpture in German-speaking lands and tracing high and late medieval notions of the ?living stat