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Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival…

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Animal Fables of the Courtly Mediterranean is a treasure trove of widely translated stories on how to conduct oneself and…

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The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. Critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets…

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric, portrays an array of…

\nIn US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism dissolve…

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Presents the text of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, beginning with the creation of the world and the…

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The main literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those Neo-Latin writers favoring Cicero alone as the apotheosis of Latin…

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Leon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical…

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Volume V of a projected six-volume Vulgate Bible presents the twelve minor prophetical books of the Old Testament, as well…

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The Iberian Apollonius of Tyre includes the poem The Book of Apollonius, a creative and Christianized adaptation, and the…

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The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of…

From humble beginnings, Bartolomeo Scala (1430-1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence as a leading citizen of…

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric, portrays an array of…

Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to…

\nPoems from the Guru Granth Sahib offers spiritual lyrics from the Sikhs\' sacred book of ethics, philosophy, and theology.…

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The Old English History of the World, produced around the year 900, is an anonymous translation and adaptation of Paulus…

Giovanni Pontano (1426--1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century…

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The anonymous Tria sunt, with its wealth of illustrative materials, was a widely used and highly ambitious textbook compiled…

Dialogues, Volume 2 by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano contains both a perceptive treatment of poetic rhythm, the first full…

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Bembo (1470-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist…

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Imprisoned for conspiring against Pope Paul II, Platina (1421-1481) returned to favor under Pope Sixtus IV, and composed…

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One of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict offers guidance about both the spiritual…

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Volume III in this six-volume translation of the Vulgate Bible begins with Job's argument with God and continues with the…

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The legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated…

Why do citizens of states with strict surveillance care so little about their digital privacy? Why do Brazilians eschew…

Why do human beings find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small…

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Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original…

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Before the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the past.…

\nKaren L. King offers an illuminating reading of this ancient text, said to be Christ\'s revelation to his disciple John.…

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With Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude,…

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A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is…

In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on…

The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu\'l-Fazl details the twenty-third to twenty-eighth years of Akbar\'s reign, including…

Geoffrey of Monmouth\'s History of the Kings of Britain-the earliest book to detail the legendary foundation of Britain and…

Headlines from France suggest that the country's Jews and Muslims are inevitably at odds. But the past tells a different…

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During Guatemala's decades-long civil war, tens of thousands of children, many of them Indigenous Maya, were coerced or…

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Renowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections-some beloved, others less well known-that illuminate…

\nDvora Hacohen offers the authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah. A global humanitarian, Szold…

\nEstablished to calm intracolonial tensions, the Mason-Dixon Line first marked a region of breakneck development and Native…

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During the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled World,…

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According to Yeats, rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others, while poetry is the expression (and sometimes…

\nElectronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The…

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From the ashes of empire, the nation rose on a wave of idealism. That, at least, is the standard tale. Dominique Reill…

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Most of Barnard's career was spent in executive practice. A Mount Hermon and Harvard education, cut off short of the…

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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual…

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Imagination is thought to be the province of childhood-the stuff of free play and unrestrained ideas. Then comes the dull…

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Buildings can make us sick or keep us well. Diseases and toxins course through indoor spaces, making us ill. Meanwhile,…