1997 - 4 (October)

Editorial Foreword

Some Things That Have Happened to the Sun after September 1965: Politics and the Interpretation of an Indonesian Painting

Art Music and High Culture. A Review Article

Sin, Citizenship, and the Salvation of Souls: the Impact of Christian Priorities on Late-roman and Post-roman Society

From Fetishism to Sincerity: on Agency, The Speaking Subject, and Their Historicity in the Context of Religious Conversion

Manners, Deference, and Private Property in Early Modern Europe

Civilizing Processes -- Myth or Reality? A Comment on Duerr's Critique of Elias

Reading Theory: Toward a Comparative Cultural Studies. A Review Article

"Fractions of Men": Engendering Amputation in Victorian Culture

Subversion or Collusion?: Revising Jacobean England. A Review Article

Universalism and Utopianism. A Review Article

From the Other Side: Women, Gender and Immigrant Life in the U.S., 1820-1990

Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization