Art in Early Modern Law
Evolving Procedures for Heritage Protection in 15th- to 18th-Century Europe
Chiara Mannoni | 2022
In the early modern centuries, several European states issued pioneering regulations to protect what they thought of as “heritage” – that is, antiquities, monuments, and paintings considered important for their country’s splendour. These early protocols…
Classical Controversies
Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Kim Beerden and Timo Epping | 2022
Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do…
Heritage, Landscape and Spatial Justice
New Legal Perspectives on Heritage Protection in the Lesser Antilles
Amanda Byer | 2022
The Caribbean region faces particular environmental challenges as a result of colonial land use, pressures from tourism and globalisation, as well as climate change. No less affected are its heritage resources, which include natural and…
Museums, Heritage, and Digital Curation
Theory and practice at the Allard Pierson
Wim Hupperetz | 2022
Heritage institutions face major changes in the areas of digitisation, narrative, inclusivity, and participation. In this groundbreaking book Wim Hupperetz, an expert in the field of museums, heritage and digital curation, reflects on the challenge…
Pieces of a Nation
South Sudanese Heritage and Museum Collections
Edited by Zoe Cormack & Cherry Leonardi | 2021
South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as…
Museum, Magic, Memory
Curating Paul Denys Montague
Julie Adams | 2021
In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his…
Collecting Ancient Europe
National Museums and the search for European Antiquities in the 19th-early 20th century
Edited by Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz | 2020
In order to understand our past, we need to understand ourselves as archaeologists and our discipline. This volume presents recent research into collecting practices of European Antiquities by national museums, institutes and individuals during the…
Art in Early Modern Law
Evolving Procedures for Heritage Protection in 15th- to 18th-Century Europe
Chiara Mannoni | 2022
In the early modern centuries, several European states issued pioneering regulations to protect what they thought of as “heritage” – that is, antiquities, monuments, and paintings considered important for their country’s splendour. These early protocols…
Classical Controversies
Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Kim Beerden and Timo Epping | 2022
Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do…
Heritage, Landscape and Spatial Justice
New Legal Perspectives on Heritage Protection in the Lesser Antilles
Amanda Byer | 2022
The Caribbean region faces particular environmental challenges as a result of colonial land use, pressures from tourism and globalisation, as well as climate change. No less affected are its heritage resources, which include natural and…
Museums, Heritage, and Digital Curation
Theory and practice at the Allard Pierson
Wim Hupperetz | 2022
Heritage institutions face major changes in the areas of digitisation, narrative, inclusivity, and participation. In this groundbreaking book Wim Hupperetz, an expert in the field of museums, heritage and digital curation, reflects on the challenge…
Pieces of a Nation
South Sudanese Heritage and Museum Collections
Edited by Zoe Cormack & Cherry Leonardi | 2021
South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as…
Museum, Magic, Memory
Curating Paul Denys Montague
Julie Adams | 2021
In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his…
Collecting Ancient Europe
National Museums and the search for European Antiquities in the 19th-early 20th century
Edited by Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz | 2020
In order to understand our past, we need to understand ourselves as archaeologists and our discipline. This volume presents recent research into collecting practices of European Antiquities by national museums, institutes and individuals during the…
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