Tabla de Contenidos: “…Photographs of matières / Michael Beggs -- Bauhaus in America / Jeffrey Saletnik -- Xanti Schawinsky / Spectodrama (Black Mountain Stage Studies) / Jeffrey Saletnik -- Marguerite Wildenhain. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Soft power, civic society and world politics (overview) / Naren Chitty -- Alternatives to soft power : influence in French and German external cultural action / Robin Brown -- A critical discourse analysis of soft power / Fei Jiang -- Understanding soft power through public diplomacy in contrasting polities / Efe Sevin -- Measuring soft power (overview) / Li Ji -- A methodological approach to nation branding : measurement and issues / Elif Kahraman -- Social media and e-diplomacy : scanning embassies on Weibo / Ying Jiang -- Cultural approaches to soft power (overview) / Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob -- Soft power and cultural industries : cultural policy and inter-Asian regional flows in Hong Kong and Singapore / Peichi Chung -- The cultural imperative : news production and soft power / Saba Bebawi -- Legal diplomacy and the possible approach of China / Zhipeng He -- The soft power of elephants / John Simons -- Technologies of influence : the materiality of soft power in public diplomacy (overview) / Craig Hayden -- Digital networks and transformations in the international news ecology : a critique of agent-centred approaches to soft power / Marie Gillespie and Eva Nieto McAvoy -- Social media and soft power politics in Africa : lessons from Nigeria's #BringBackOurGirls and Kenya's #SomeoneTellCNN / Matthew O. …”

“…The article provides a study of ten folios from St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, which contain parts of an early Syrian Orthodox liturgical collection, covering Epiphany, Holy Week and Sunday of the Resurrection. …”

“…In the 17th and 18th centuries, Hamburg was one of the strongholds of European Hebrew studies in Hamburg. The Academic Gymnasium, founded in 1613, created professorships for Hebraic studies or - more comprehensively - for Oriental studies. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dalton -- Branding, selfbranding, making : the neototalitarian relation between spectacle and prosumers in the age of cognitive capitalism / Nello Barile -- Tin hat games : producing, funding, and consuming an independent role-playing game in the age of the interactive spectacle / Chiara Bassetti, Maurizio Teli and Annalisa Murgia -- 'Freelancing' as spectacular free labour : a case study on independent digital journalists in Romania / Romina Surugiu -- Immaterial labour and reality TV : the affective surplus of excess / Jacob Johanssen -- Disrupting the spectacle : the case of Capul TV during and after Turkey's Gezi uprising / Ergin Bulut and Haluk Mert Bal…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The cultural battle waged by a European populist leader against Brussels / Paul Rowinski -- Populist candidates in the age of social media : media portrayals of Jair Bolsonaro's presidential bid in Brazil / Heloisa Sturm Wilkerson -- 'How can you say you didn't overspend and end up bankrupting this country?' …”

“…The programmatic national epic was brought to life by the German Romanticism, especially by writers such as Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The contributions in this volume analyse the development, relationship, and reception of European national epics. …”

“…The book provides insightful interviews of key industry figures, and case studies of some of the success stories in the industry. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Historical distance, physical presence and the living past of cities / Elizabeth Key Fowden, Suna Çağaptay, Edward Zychowicz-Coghill and Louise Blanke -- Between wars and peace: some archaeological and historiographical aspects to studying urban transformations in Jerusalem / Gideon Avni -- Visualizing Constantinople as a palimpsest / Robert Ousterhout -- Transcultural encounters in medieval Anatolia: The Sungur Ağa Mosque in Niğde / Suna Çağaptay -- The water of life, the vanity of mortal existence and a penalty of 2,500 denarii: Thoughts on the reuse of classical and Byzantine remains in Seljuk cities / Scott Redford -- Echoes of late antique Esbus in Mamluk Ḥisbān (Jordan) / Bethany J. …”