In een vroeg zelfportret uit 1628 heeft Rembrandt een Wolf-Cut kapsel en een gouden oorbel in zijn linkeroor. Tegenwoordig zou deze jonge schilder zich wellicht als queer of ‘questioning’ identificeren, en hij was zeker niet de enige. Seks, Drugs en Rock 'n' Roll in Rembrandts Tijd beschrijft hoe welvarende jonge mannen, zoals Rembrandt, volwassen werden tijdens de economische bloei van de vroege zeventiende eeuw. Op basis van nieuw onderzoek illustreert historicus Benjamin Roberts in dez...

What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a practice in its own right.

Drawing on case studies from the nineteenth-century humanities (with occasional forays into physics, chemistry, and medicine), Paul shows that notions of virtue and vice were an evaluative discourse used across the academi...

In Multispecies Dialogues Eva Meijer develops a new understanding of the concept ‘dialogue’, which includes embodied, material and spatial interaction. Meijer does not do this alone: each chapter of the book is devoted to a dialogue, or set of dialogues – with street dog Olli, a community of former lab mice, amphibian neighbours, the North Sea, and many other beings. Taking multispecies dialogues seriously is a way to do justice to more-than-human agency and to become more worldly in a ...