Terrain vague

Bertrand Tavernier (*1941) gehört neben André Téchiné zu den wichtigsten Regisseuren jener Generation, die der Nouvelle Vague unmittelbar folgte. Bisweilen wird Tavernier mit den g...

According to the view that vagueness is merely a kind of ignorance, there is no principled reason to think that one cannot care intrinsically about vague matters. In this chapter, ...

In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much modern art: “How could he explain to them his prayer / that natu...

For roughly the first thirty years of her life, the Syrian city of Palmyra was Zenobia’s home. Zenobia called Palmyra Tadmor; it shaped the terms of her very existence as well as m...

Fully illustrated, this book examines the evolving armored vehicle tactics used by US forces during World War II. US tank tactics were governed, in practice, by t...

Abstract Freedom of Speech in International Law aims to distil the minimum protections for speech enshrined in international law and—where there is a divergence or g...

During the 1920s, fundamentalists founded their own network of dissenting institutions. No longer able to control public or denominational colleges, activists opened new schools su...

The concept of Christianization dominates scholarship on the early Middle Ages. Yet, “Christianization” is a vague, anachronistic term, applied haphazardly to group an assortment o...