Books published by Amsterdam University Press

This book analyses the collaboration between local communities and greater authorities in medieval France which grants us unusual insight into the period's concept of madness.

This book reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viking Age Iceland and proposes socio-economic and environmental models relevant to any study of the Vikings or the North Atlantic.

This anthology provides an in-depth introduction to the networks shaped by the Baltic Sea, the languages, folklore, religions, literature, technology, and identities of the Germanic, Finnic, Sami, Baltic, and Slavic peoples.

Interdisciplinary learning activities contains concrete suggestions in the form of examples of learning activities that university teachers can use to teach and foster interdisciplinary skills in graduate and undergraduate students.

Even though peeing is something we all do several times a day, it is still a taboo subject. This paradox has not gone unnoticed by artists through the ages.

This book advances a multicausal and multilevel understanding of involvement in European homegrown jihadism through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup.

This book examines Zeolites and Metal-Organic Frameworks. It explains the different synthetic routes available to prepare these materials, and examines how they are used by science and industry.

This collection of essays showcases extraordinary objects held by Australian collections, revealing a wide range of contemporary art and historical research.

This interdisciplinary book analyses the ways that heritage is branded and commodified, how stakeholders organise place brands, and how digital strategies shape how visitors appreciate heritage sites.

This book offers the most important contributions from the past fifteen years of international research into Etty Hillesum's work and life, studying her ethical, philosophical, spiritual, and literary existential search.

This book focuses on the contested nature of heritage through the lens of individuals, local communities, religious groups, and heritage experts.

The essays in this book explore migrants' motivations in support of an argument that to travel inspires a search for new meaning in religion.

This book explores archival restoration, colour film technology, colour theory, and experimental film alongside beautifully saturated images of silent cinema.

This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the important phenomenon of explosive news waves, referring to the process in which key events trigger a chain of reactions and interactions, spreading social epidemics in the social media.

This book brings together contributions from leading figures in legal studies on analogy and related forms of reasoning in the law. Analogical reasoning-which relies on the concept of two different things being in some way like each other-is hugely important not just in the practice of law, but it is nonetheless strongly contested.

This book is the first international publication to address all the historical aspects of the Hollandsche Schouwburg, putting it in a broader European and historical context.

This book is a first step toward a serious reassessment of the mostly unspoken theoretical and aesthetic premises underlying auteur theory.

This book brings together a roster of prominent contributors to present a strategic interactionist perspective on the study of contentious politics in the Middle East in response to the Arab uprisings.

This book offers a pioneering study of Asian cultures that officially escaped from French colonisation but nonetheless were steeped in French civilisation in the colonial era and had heavily French-influenced, largely francophone literatures.

This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular emphasis on colonial institutions.

This book draws on the fields of media archaeology, performance studies, and sound studies to explore the various modes of communication that can be uncovered from the long American folk revival.

This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosophy.

These books aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language.

These books aim to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language.

By examining medieval female saints' lives in dialogue with modern film theories, a trans-historical spectrum of visual experience is revealed: medieval saint and modern moviegoer are connected in the visual act.

This book is the first to offer a detailed exploration of the role of music in US presidential campaign advertising, from Eisenhower to the present, showing that in many cases music isn't simply one element in the presentation of an ad's message - it's the dominant factor, more important than images, words, or narration.

This book brings together a team of scholars representing a broad range of interests and new approaches in medieval studies to explore the interactions of secular power and sacral authority in central and southeastern Europe in the period.