Reaktion Books

by Alberto A. Martinez (Author)

Many negative stereotypes of Muslims can be traced to the clashes between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. Paula Sutter Fichtner explores here the particular dynamics between the Ottoman and Austrian Habsburg empires and chronicles the evolution of a political relationship that shifted from hatred to understanding.

Reading started in ancient Asia and the Americas, re-emerged in Europe in the Middle Ages and was reinvented by the development of printing. The explosion of the book trade, of newspapers, public readings and public libraries swept reading into 19th century educational reforms and onwards towards the present cyber-age, in which read communication looks set to exceed oral communication. This highly innovative account, the last in Fischer's trilogy, is a complete history of a ubiquitous yet mysterious art.

A cultural icon who defined the twentieth-century American landscape, Frank Lloyd Wright has been studied from what seems to be every possible angle.

The Emblem is impressively broad in scope and is sure to become the standard introductory guide to the genre. Times Higher Education This book is a magisterial performance, sure to be in demand as an introduction to the emblem for general readers, as well as having much to say to emblem specialists – Alastair Fowler One of the most challenging and significant re-evaluations of the emblem to have appeared in recent years. Society for Emblem Studies Newsletter One of the most provocative and substantial books on literary criticism and art to appear in a long time Seventeenth-Century News An excellent introduction to the emblem in what is one of the few general treatments of the subject in English Library Journal Fascinating and enthralling.