In Reintegrating bodies and minds Pieter Verstraete and Christine Van Everbroeck examine the impact of World War I on Belgian soldiers’ bodies and minds. Based of unexplored archives, personal documents and existing historical overviews, initiatives taken during and immediately after World War I to reintegrate Belgian military invalids into the army and society, are reconstructed. The result is a poignant and disconcerting story in which a rather unknown fragment of Belgian history is revea...

How do wind and breath challenge the traditional conception of an image as something seen and read? The book attempts to answer this question by addressing the structural relations that have determined the representation of these motifs across different cultures. What does the pneuma - denoting both breath, wind and air - tell us about the human psyche and the structure of images? To articulate cross-historical and crosscultural connections between representations belonging to different medi...