Catalogue d'objets d'art, de curiosité et d'ameublement de la Renaissance et du XVIIIe siècle, bois sculptés, sièges et meubles, tableaux anciens... composa

First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth in a collection of over 100 essays, from Abra

Thirty-five years ago Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the Author. For medievalists no death has been more timely. The essays in this volume create a pris

“A convincing account of science’s flirtation with the marginal and the marvelous” from the author of Conjuring Science (Journal of the History of the Beh