Books in the Lund University Press series

Being exposed to large audiences as a villain is a life-changing experience. You may survive, but you will always bear the scars. This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. It also contributes new perspectives on the fusion between news storytelling and gossip and rumour. -- .

This study explores the radical shift in notions of incest in Sweden from 1680 to 1940, a period in which the country went from having the strictest laws in Europe to some of the most liberal. It reveals the norms underpinning this shift and situates them in a European context. -- .

The fourth volume in the Acta Aethiopica series recovers and presents largely unknown original Ethiopian sources for how Ethiopian rulers dealt with the colonial endeavours of European powers in the first half of the 1880s. The texts are presented in facsimile as well as in English translation and supplied with scholarly notes.

This study shows how the Humboldt gave direction to debates around higher education in Germany and investigates the ways in which his ideas have been appropriated for various purposes in different historical contexts and epochs.

Winner of the 2019 Warburg Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities for an outstanding work of literary history'Eric Pudney's book is a revisionary, incisive and accessible literary history of witchcraft in early modern drama that redefines both the terms and scope of the field: highly recommended.'Marion Gibson, Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures, Unviersity of ExeterThis is the first major study of witches in early modern English drama to be published since the 1990s. It expands on and updates previous scholarship on the subject, situating its analysis within the frameworks of both intellectual and political history.The book begins with the earliest extant play to feature a witch, John Bale's Three Laws. Unlike many previous works in the field, it covers the drama of the Elizabethan period and the Restoration as well as the more familiar Jacobean witch plays. The Restoration is of particular interest, as witches were much more frequently represented at this time than before - despite the decline in actual prosecutions. Throughout the study, the importance of scepticism and belief is stressed. Witchcraft was always a controversial issue, and has traditionally been seen in terms of a debate between 'sceptics' and 'believers'. This book instead argues that, while the concepts of scepticism and belief are central to an understanding of early modern witchcraft, they are more fruitfully understood not as static and mutually exclusive positions within the witchcraft debate, but as rhetorical tools used by both sides.The book will be of interest to students and researchers of witchcraft across disciplinary boundaries, including historians, folklorists, and literary scholars.

This book assembles scholars from across the social sciences to explore how people and organisations deal with overflows - of information, goods or choices. It asks whether overflow is understood as abundance or excess, and looks at how it is addressed in different contexts, from sharing economies to health care administration. -- .