France has always hosted a rich and vibrant black presence within its borders. But recent violent events have raised questions about France’s treatment of ethnic minorities. Challenging the identity politics…

What characterizes the relationship between literature and the state? Should literature serve the needs of the state by constructing national consciousness, espousing state propaganda, and molding good citizens? Or should…

Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translatio, Kinship, and Metaphor Zrinka Stahuljak reevaluates, in Old French literature and art, two concepts fundamental for the medieval period: genealogy and translatio. She…

THINKING THROUGH CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES This co-written, multi-stranded book challenges assumptions about Chrétien as the author of a canon of works. In a series of lively exchanges, its five authors…

PORNOGRAPHIC ARCHAEOLOGY: MEDICINE, MEDIEVALISM, AND THE INVENTION OF THE FRENCH NATION This engaging and informative study of nineteenth-century French medievalism sheds new light on the scientific and ideological underpinnings of…

THE ADVENTURES OF GILLION DE TRAZEGNIES: CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE IN THE MEDIEVAL EAST One of the finest works from the golden era of Flemish manuscript illumination, the Getty’s copy of…

Through their open defiance, women like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth had a significant impact on the institution of slavery. But what of the millions of other women who did…

Allegories of Empire was first published in 1993.“Allegories of Empire re-constellates a metropolitan masterpiece, Forster’s A Passage to India, within colonial discourse studies. Sharpe, a materialist feminist, is scrupulous in…

Providing valuable insights into an element of European nationalism and modernist culture, this book explores the development of the ‘Zionist body’ as opposed to the traditional stereotype of the physically…

Though the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, Todd Presner looks instead to the completion of the…