February 23, 2016
“With thirty-five contributions, the present volume gathers an unusually high number of texts. Most of them are case studies on a single artist, image, exhibition, meeting, etc. From the outset, the project was conceived as a kaleidoscopic research work… It reflects the diversity of the academic community writing on art history across present-day Europe.
February 23, 2016
Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University, reviewed of the book by Balazs Majtenyi, associate professor at Eotvos Lorand University and Gyorgy Majtenyi, professor of social and cultural history at Eszterhazy Karoly College, saying “this important book byexamines the history of the Roma in Hungary after WWII.
February 23, 2016
This book by Evaldas Nekrasas, professor of philosophy at Vilnius University, Lithuania, is an intellectual adventure story, a history of ideas, and a rigorous reappraisal of a major movement in philosophy, science, and culture that many have been pronounced irrelevant, passé, even dead. Yet upon closer consideration, we may find that what we have come to call positivism has profoundly influenced our thought and practice in numerous ways.
February 23, 2016
In this study Averil Cameron, chair of the Oxford Centre of Byzantine Research, focuses on the prose dialogues in twelfth century Greek and on what they can tell us about the society and culture of an era when western Europe was itself developing a new culture of schools, universities, and scholars. Yet it was also the period in which Byzantium felt the fateful impact of the Crusades, which ended with the momentous sack of Constantinople in 1204.



