This book is the first comprehensive publication on Scottish portraiture from the period 1644 to 1714, with an emphasis on the painters David Scougall (1625-1685), and his son John Scougall (1657-1737).

This book sheds new light on the role of the body in the music of Igor Stravinsky.

How historians in the central Middle Ages rewrote the past to meet the needs of a changing present.