Text in English & Danish. Danish poetry is coloured by the distinctive tone of its language, shaped by the contours of the landscape, the rhyth...

This volume commemorates the three-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Icelandic scholar and antiquarian Árni Magnússon, who served as...

Text in English, Danish & German. On 19 April 2008, professor John D Bergsagel celebrated his 80th birthday, and three weeks later -- on 8 May ...

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Along with Hamlet’s Kronborg at Elsinore, Frederiksborg is the most magnificent early seventeenth-century residence in Northern Europe, visited by ...

This book is the first complete study of the painter Nicolai Abildgaard's oeuvre. Abildgaard (1743-1809) is the only Danish artist of the 18th cent...

An anthropological study of play-acting. Acting on the stage is seen as an example of social action in general. The focus is on the playing of Shak...

The Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies took place 23-27 August, 1999. Contributors to this volume include: S Allam, C A R Andrews,...

Book & CD-ROM. The oldest manuscript of Alexanders saga, AM 519a 4°, from circa 1280 is considered to be one of the most important extant piece...

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This work retraces the various phases of the evolution of a small East Greenlandic society throughout the twentieth century and sums up its present...

Prior to 1963 virtually all our knowledge of the flora of south-east Greenland had been gained at low altitudes. However, that year saw the first o...

Ancient Stoics repeatedly stressed the monolithic unity of their philosophy. In this ground breaking "essay" Johnny Christensen takes their claim a...

Advances in cognitive science have had a tremendous philosophical impact, offering new ways of thinking about topics such as who we are, what we kn...

Identification and classification of a private Danish collection of seals, which were acquired in Baghdad over a number of years more than 30 years...

This volume contains 11 new papers on Shakespeare written by members of the Department of English at the University of Copenhagen and other Danish ...

Volume 9 takes up the questions -- national, sociolinguistic, strategic, economic and educational -- which arise in relation to the increasing use ...

CONTENTS: Introduction: Movable Type, Mobile Nations; Pulp, The Armed Services Editions & GI Reading During WWII; Legions, Laws & Language:...

This volume of 'Angles on the English-Speaking World' discusses the intriguing inter-relatedness between the concepts and phenomena of world litera...

This special issue of ANGLES marks the three hundredth anniversary of the Union of the two kingdoms of Scotland and England under the name of the K...

CONTENTS: Preface; Index of Greek Words; List of Works Referred to; The Problem; Notes to Chapter One; Antiphon's First Speech; Notes to Chapter Tw...

Archaeological exploration of the Arabic Peninsula is not a new phenomenon, but only in the last two decades or so, has it received the scholary at...

Count Eigil Knuth succeeded in finding a Palaeo-Eskimo settlement named "Old Nuulliit" on the well-known Nuulliit site in the Thule area. This site...

Archive of the Wullu Family

This collection of articles covering the time span from the Late Middle Ages to the twentieth century intends to challenge the current neglect of t...

Provides greater insight into the dramatic art of antiquity by analysing three major groups of iconographical material in context with the written ...

A collection of articles that addresses the challenges that European ethnology is facing. Representing a variety of localities, they give new insig...

Lutheran theology and religious practice re-shaped traditions from the ritual heritage of the Medieval Latin Church. Throughout the cultural histor...

The second volume of The Athenian Ecclesia covers the author's articles on the subject in the period 1983-1989 on the working and functioning of th...

The second volume of The Athenian Ecclesia covers the author's articles on the subject in the period 1983-1989 on the working and functioning of th...

Text in German. This volume is the first edition of an 8.80m long demotic account papyrus -- one of the longest extant papyri. P Carlsberg 409 prov...

The canonical version of the Babylonian omen series concerned with barûtu: extispicy (divination from entrails of sheep), consisted of ten chapters...

This book is a major contribution to the sociology and anthropology of identity and to debates about identity in Denmark and elsewhere in Europe. U...

One of the earliest portrait photographs -- a daguerreotype -- represents the Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen. In spite of the fact that the photo...