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This volume analyses cultural perceptions of safety and security that have shaped modern European societies. The articles present a wide range of topics, from feelings of unsafety generated by early modern fake news to safety issues related to twentieth-century drug use in public space. The volume demonstrates how 'safety' is not just a social or biological condition to pursue but also a historical and cultural construct. In philosophical terms, safety can be interpreted in different ways, referring to security, certainty or trust. What does feeling safe and thinking about a safe society mean to various groups of people over time? The articles in this volume are bound by their joint effort to take a constructionist approach to emotional expressions, artistic representations, literary narratives and political discourses of (un)safety and their impact on modern European society.

Human security --- HISTORY / Europe / General. --- History. --- Safety, cultures of security, cultural studies, study of emotions.

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Elke Andreas Boon's art explores a duality of unruly fragility and reflection, tackling existential themes like religion, gender, and power structures. Their work, rooted in art tradition, undergoes subtle transformations, creating new contexts and combining brutal questioning with surreal humor. Boon’s oeuvre, spanning over twenty-five years, is noted for its relevance and aesthetic richness, addressing universal issues like identity and loneliness. S.M.A.K director Philippe Van Cauteren praises them for addressing broad, impactful themes, while curator Tanguy Eeckhout emphasizes Boon's focus on human emotions and societal conflicts, elevating them aesthetically. This comprehensive journey, highlighting individual and communal tensions, is now being translated into a book, offering a new avenue to experience Boon's compelling and intricate art.

Art --- paintings [visual works] --- installations [visual works] --- multimedia works --- religions [belief systems, cultures] --- video art --- identity --- texts [documents] --- power --- photography [discipline] --- gender [sociological concept] --- Boon, Elke Andreas

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In phenomenological tradition, presence has been understood as fundamental for human experience: I experience the world as my lifeworld because I am present in this world. Even more, I experience myself as »I« only in the physical presence of the other. However, this concept of presence has become fragile through processes of medialization - especially in (post-)pandemic everyday life. Presence can no longer be experienced exclusively in physical proximity, but also digitally or virtually. With global case studies alongside theoretical discussions by both students as well as junior and senior researchers, the volume launches a conversation between social sciences and humanities on how this change affects human experience.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Communication. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Culture. --- Digitalisation. --- Media Cultures. --- Media Studies. --- Media. --- Microsociology. --- Society. --- Sociological Theory. --- Sociology of Media.

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This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom. The period between the First Crusade and the collapse of the "crusader states" in the eastern Mediterranean was a crucial one for medieval historical writing. From the departure of the earliest crusading armies in 1096 to the Mamlūk conquest of the Latin states in the late thirteenth century, crusading activity, and the settlements it established and aimed to protect, generated a vast textual output, offering rich insights into the historiographical cultures of the Latin West and Latin East. However, modern scholarship on the crusades and the "crusader states" has tended to draw an artificial boundary between the two, even though medieval writers treated their histories as virtually indistinguishable. This volume places these spheres into dialogue with each other, looking at how individual crusading campaigns and the Frankish settlements in the eastern Mediterranean were depicted and remembered in the central Middle Ages. Its essays cover a geographical range that incorporates England, France, Germany, southern Italy and the Holy Land, and address such topics as gender, emotion, the natural world, crusading as an institution, origin myths, textual reception, forms of storytelling and historical genre. Bringing to the foreground neglected sources, methodologies, events and regions of textual production, the collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.

HISTORY / Medieval. --- Albert of Aachen. --- Ambroise. --- Ascalon. --- Bohemond. --- Chanson de Jérusalem. --- Chanson des Chétifs. --- Chanson d’Antioche. --- Chronique d’Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier. --- Crusade Cycle. --- Dānishmendid. --- Estoire de la guerre sainte. --- Fulcher of Chartres. --- Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges. --- Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum. --- Godfrey of Bouillon. --- Heinrich von Sybel. --- Historia Hierosolymitana. --- Historia Ierosolimitana. --- Historia occidentalis. --- Itinerarium peregrinorum et gesta regis Ricardi. --- Jacques de Vitry. --- John of Joinville. --- Latin Christendom. --- Leopold von Ranke. --- Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum. --- Malik Ghāzī. --- Manuscript studies. --- Memory. --- Vernacular cultures. --- William of Tyre. --- historiography. --- Literature, Medieval --- Crusades in literature. --- History and criticism.