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

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

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Paolo Giovio's Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to…

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The Patria is a fascinating four-book collection of short historical notes, stories, and legends about the buildings and…

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Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest Italian poets, was also a leader in the Renaissance movement to revive…

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

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The Epic of Ram, Volume 7 completes Tulsidas's grand epic. Ram reunites with his family and begins his long reign. Then, an…

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

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Shah Abdul Latif's Risalo is acknowledged as the greatest classic of Sindhi literature. In this collection of Sufi verses,…

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Mhaimbhat's God at Play, or Li?acaritra, is a remarkable biography of the medieval religious figure Chakradhar Svami,…

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In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from…

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John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement…

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

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Other than his name, we have no biographical details of Cynewulf, not even where or when he lived. Yet his Old English poems…

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Ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists and others frame accounts of ethnic,…

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

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Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His…

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Wordplay has been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries, and medieval riddles provide insights into the…

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In 1490/92 the Florentine Platonist Marsilio Ficino made new translations of two treatises he believed were the work of…

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

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

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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 twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the…

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

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Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the…

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This volume presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second…

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

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Scala (1430-1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence serving as secretary and treasurer to the Medicis and chancellor…

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

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

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

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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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Bruni (1370-1444) was the best-selling author of the 15th century, and this book is generally considered the first modern…

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

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

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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…

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Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars,…

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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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Fritz Zwicky was one of the most inventive and iconoclastic scientists of the twentieth century. Among other…

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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…