The first volume of this set views the development of writing in German with respect to broad aspects of the early Germanic past, drawing on a range of disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, and philology in addition to literary history. The first part considers the whole concept of Germanic antiquity and the way in which it has been approached, examines classical writings about Germanic origins and the earliest Germanic tribes, and looks at the two great influences on the early Germanic world: the confrontation with the Roman Empire and the displacement of Germanic religion by...

The gravamen of The Matrix Effect is that the discipline of Hispanism is currently suffering from a theoretical deficit of considerable proportions, at the root of which is a pragmatic dependence upon theories developed outside the discipline, which are quite simply a put to usea indiscriminately, with little attention to, or concern for, their coherence. The phenomenon its author describes a descriptive theoretical pluralism a is systemic and each of his borings into the disciplinary bedrock of Hispanism reveals a particular layer of it. While in no sense a history of Hispanism The Matrix...