Diogenes Laertius (probably early third century BCE) compiled his compendium on the lives and doctrines of the ancient…

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

From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic 'stagflation,'…

Ugolino Verino was a principal Latin poet in the Florence of Lorenzo de'Medici and a leading figure in the revival of…

Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church…

The Story of Manu, by sixteenth-century poet Allasani Peddana, is the definitive literary monument of Telugu civilization…

Cole excavates the forgotten global history of criminal identification-from photography to exotic anthropometric systems…

This volume collects one hundred of the most important and beloved Late Antique and Medieval Latin hymns from Western…

The Menologion by Symeon Metaphrastes, among the most important Byzantine religious and literary works, is a culmination of…

The six plays by Terence (died 159 BCE), all extant, imaginatively reformulate Greek New Comedy in realistic scenes and…

Wolfram Siemann tells a new story of Clemens von Metternich, the Austrian at the center of nineteenth-century European…

Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential…

Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BCE), but probably composed in the first or second century BCE, the Library…

\nThe first biography of Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933), a pioneering Mexican-American anthropologist whose work on Aztec…

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

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Giannozzo Manetti's Apologeticus was a defense of the study of Hebrew and of the need for a new translation. It constituted…

Cyriac of Ancona (1391-1452) was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and is…

In the past century, exploration and serendipity have uncovered mosaic after mosaic in the Near East-maps, historical images…

Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in…

Federico Borromeo founded the Ambrosiana library, art collection, and academy in Milan. Sacred Painting laid out the rules…

High-rise public housing was a signature of the post-World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary,…

This biography of the most visible U.S. pediatrician of the twentieth century describes his illustrious medical family and…

\nNostalgia, supposedly, is the sphere of the sentimentalist. But also, and most definitely, it is a force in the creation…

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

Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find…

We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has…

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Leonardo Bruni was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was one of the best-selling authors of the…

\nSongs about Women by Romanos the Melodist contains eighteen works related to the liturgical calendar that feature…

\nThe Old English Pastoral Care, a ninth-century translation from Latin of Pope Gregory the Great\'s guide for aspiring…

Biondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle Age to…

The 25 years after World War II were a fertile period for the American novel and an era of transformation in American…

Gregory of Tours, acclaimed as "the father" of French history, also wrote extensively about holy men and women, and about…

From the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century, vying armies have clashed over the territory stretching from the Upper Nile…

Lilio Gregorio Giraldi authored many works on literary history, mythology, and antiquities. Among the most famous are his…

During the reign of Emperor Ch'ien-lung, mass hysteria broke out among the common people, who feared that sorcerers were…

Around the world, more than a million people die by suicide each year. Yet many of us know very little about a tragedy that…

In the third century BCE Ashoka ruled in South Asia and Afghanistan, and came to be seen as the ideal Buddhist king.…

Petrarca's four Invectives were intended to revive the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero, and were directed against…

This volume presents translations from the Greek of two crucial primary sources published together for the first…

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\nMedical Writings from Early Medieval England presents vernacular texts on health and healing-unique local remedies and…

\nKalidasa’s The Lineage of the Raghus, or Raghuva?sa, belongs to the literary tradition of mahakavya, or court poem. It…

\nThe History of Akbar by Abu\'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. The eighth and final…

\nLargely forgotten today, the Second Mexican Empire was a transformative nineteenth-century moment. Raymond Jonas explores…

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