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Using a wide range of case studies, this edited collection shows how community engagement and co-creation is challenging and extending the notion of the archive.

This book situates Alfred the Great in his hagiographic context. For 150 years, the fables told in the ninth century about Alfred's childhood have posed interlocking disciplinary challenges to historians committed to evicting romance from history. Blending current Hagiography Studies with historical, literary, and biblical hermeneutics can help us forgo the anti-hagiographic commitments which motivated the scholars who purified the Victorian cult of Alfred by expunging his legends and salvaging his historicity. The book focusses on the typological functions of three Alfredian fables from the...

Settlements at the Edge examines the evolution, characteristics, functions and shifting economic basis of settlements in sparsely populated areas of developed nations. With a focus on demographic change, the book features theoretical and applied cases which explore the interface between demography, economy, well-being and the environment. This book offers a comprehensive and insightful knowledge base for understanding the role of population in shaping the development and histories of northern sparsely populated areas of developed nations including Alaska (USA), Australia, Canada, Greenland,...

This book reviews the development of confraternities and shows how the procession emerged as a narrative-dramatic mode expressing their ideals and shared mythologies. It analyses the fundamental dramatic characteristics of processions such as the use of banners and the place of spoken action. It shows how the confraternal drama evolved over long time frames, with frequent appeals to tradition, in ways which problematize a number of formalist assumptions about drama and its evolution. While the range of this processional activity embraces bodies as diverse as religious confraternities,...