After fifty years of posing and answering daring historical questions, Richard Bulliet tackles an array of topics as diverse…

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In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions that men and women have asked through the ages: What is religion and…

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On the City of God unfolds God's action in the progress of the world's history, and propounds the superiority of Christian…

A foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy.…

The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Cox\'s brilliant exegesis. And all of the world\'s problems-widening…

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Perhaps nothing has ever been so frightening to people of faith as the modern. Pluralistic and rationalizing, modernity…

\nBullhe Shah\'s work is among the glories of Panjabi literature, and the iconic eighteenth-century poet is widely regarded…

The unseeing of the gods was a requirement of Western modernity. Beginning with sixteenth-century debates over Christ's real…

Sophocles (497/6 406 BCE), considered one of the world s greatest poets, forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth and…

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

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"The Platonic Theology" is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433 - 1499), the…

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In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared that God loves the Jews. Before that, the Church had taught for centuries that…

This collection of edited and fully annotated Homeric texts offer fresh solutions to a number of textual puzzles.…

Virgil (70 19 BCE) was a poet of immense virtuosity and influence. His Eclogues deal with bucolic life and love, his…

The Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) of Apuleius (born c. 125 CE) is a romance combining realism and magic. Lucius wants the…

Pausanias (fl. 150 CE), one of the Roman world's great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography,…

The surviving works of the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate (331 or 332 363 CE) include eight Orations; Misopogon…

The epic Dionysiaca by Nonnos of Panopolis in Egypt (fifth century CE) concerns Dionysus' earthly career from birth at…

Tertullian (c. 150 222 CE) founded a Christian Latin language and literature, strove to unite the demands of the Bible with…

Sophocles (497/6 406 BCE), considered one of the world s greatest poets, forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth and…

Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a…

Historical works by Bede (672 or 673-735 CE) include his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Lives of the Abbots…

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

The epic Dionysiaca by Nonnos of Panopolis in Egypt (fifth century CE) concerns Dionysus earthly career from birth at Thebes…

• Rok vydání 1989

The Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) of Apuleius (born c. 125 CE) is a romance combining realism and magic. Lucius wants the…

The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more…

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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…

Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Ian Hacking…

In this text the editors present both a scholarly understanding of the complexities of the Daoist tradition and a critical…

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

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

The goal of Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources to create a massive…

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

Alan of Lille was renowned for his learning, his contributions to systematic theology, and his Latin poetry. The works…

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The poetry of Bullhe Shah, who drew upon Sufi mysticism, is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi literature.…

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

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

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

The Apocalypse informed medieval expectations of the end of the world, responses to strange and exotic invaders, and the…

• Rok vydání 2010

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

The Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantium, contains short narratives to be…

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

\nCompiled and translated in large part by St. Jerome, the Vulgate Bible influenced Western literature, art, music,…

The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the papal revolution, when the Western…

Explores two successive transformations of the Western legal tradition under the impact of the 16th Century German…

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In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state disastrous…

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During his long career, Hilary Putnam repeatedly revised his philosophical positions. This unique volume is a window into…