Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated…

In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East, controlling the Balkans south of the Danube and…

Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from…

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

Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his…

Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence…

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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

Across the twentieth century, Asians imagined universalist ideals centered on the idea of Asia itself, rivaling European…

Covers the period from the founding of the church through ad 461.…

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

\nThe 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…

Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four…

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

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…

Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an…

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

Dvora 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…

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

The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of ones…

Sets forth a theory of organization and studies the functions of executives in formal organizations.…

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

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Michael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the…

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

\nWith Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the…

The post-WWI crisis of statelessness induced creative legal thinking, as officials and jurists debated cosmopolitan…

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects:…

Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the…

\nScientific progress doesn\'t always precede engineering advances; it often follows. Answering questions isn\'t always the…

In this history of China for the 900-year span of the late imperial period, Mote highlights the personal characteristics of…

\nDeeply Responsible Business profiles corporate leaders of the past two centuries who made social missions vital to their…

First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really…

This work consists of two parts: 'The Idea of Public Reason Revisited', published in 1997, and 'The Law of Peoples', a…