In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and d

Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is increasing throughout the modern industrialized world. Yet, despi

This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven

An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.