In the early modern period, images of revolts and violence became increasingly important tools to legitimize or contest political structures. This volume offers the first in-depth analysis of how early modern people produced and consumed violent imagery, and assesses its role in memory practices, political mobilization, and the negotiation of cruelty and justice. Critically evaluating the traditional focus on Western European imagery, the case studies in this book draw on evidence from Russia, China, Hungary, Portugal, Germany, North America, and other regions. The contributors highlight the distinctions among visual cultures of violence, as well as their entanglements in networks of intensive transregional communication, early globalization, and European colonization. Contributors: Monika Barget, David de Boer, Nóra G. Etényi, Fabian Fechner, Joana Fraga, Malte Griesse, Alain Hugon, Gleb Kazakov, Nancy Kollmann, Ya-Chen Ma, Galina Tirnanic, and Ramon Voges.

Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern Imagery (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 54)

Arts & Photography

University of Amsterdam

Malte Griesse

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Monika Barget

IEG - Leibniz Institute of European History

Mainz David de Boer

History & Criticism

BRILL

Beckett's Voices / Voicing Beckettuses 'voice' as a prism to investigate Samuel Beckett's work across a range of texts, genres, and performance cultures. Twenty-one contributors, all members of the Samuel Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research, discuss the musicality of Beckett's voices, the voice as 'absent other', the voices of the vulnerable, the cinematic voice, and enacted voices in performance and media. The volume engages not only with Beckett's history and legacy, but also with many of the central theoretical issues in theatre studies as a whole. Featuring testimonies from Beckett practitioners as well as emerging and established scholars, it is emblematic of the thriving and diverse community that is twenty-first century Beckett Studies. Contributors: Svetlana Antropova, Linda Ben-Zvi, Jonathan Bignell, Llewellyn Brown, Julie Campbell, Thirthankar Chakraborty, Laurens De Vos, Everett C. Frost, S. E. Gontarski, Mariko Hori Tanaka, Nicholas E. Johnson, Kumiko Kiuchi, Anna McMullan, Melissa Nolan, Cathal Quinn, Arthur Rose, Teresa Rosell Nicolás, Jürgen Siess, Anna Sigg, Yoshiko Takebe, Michiko Tsushima

Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett (Themes in Theatre: Collective Approaches to Theatre and Performance, 12)

Literature & Fiction

Edited by Laurens De Vos

Mariko Hori Tanaka

Aoyama Gakuin University

and Nicholas E. Johnson

Trinity College Dublin

Dramas & Plays

Taking its cue from Irene de Jong's groundbreaking narratological analyses of classical texts, this volume studies emotions in a wide range of ancient genres, focusing on emotions as they are described within narratives and on ways in which narratives trigger the emotions of their readers.

Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong (Mnemosyne, Supplements)

Edited by Mathieu de Bakker

Baukje van den Berg

and Jacqueline Klooster

University of Groningen

Central European University

About the Author\nDylan M. Burns (Ph.D. Yale University, 2011) is Assistant Professor of the History of Western Esotericism in Late Antiquity at the Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. His most recent book is Did God Care? Providence, Dualism, and Will in Later Greek and Early Christian Philosophy (Brill, 2020).\nMatthew Goff (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2002) is a Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism in the Department of Religion at Florida State University. His most recent publication is an edited volume, with Stefan Beyerle, Notions of Time in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature (de Gruyter, 2022).\nFeaturing articles by an all-star, international lineup of scholars, this book offers the first sustained, comparative study of two discoveries of immense significance for the history of ancient Judaism and Christianity: the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices.

The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices Selected Papers from the Conference “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices” in Berlin, ... (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 103)

Religion & Spirituality

Florida State University

Edited by Dylan Burns

Center for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents andMatthew Goff

Christian Books & Bibles

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