Aelius Aristides (117'-after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the…

Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC'-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome''s rise from…

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

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

From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. Nicholas…

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Nigel of Canterbury''s Miracles of the Virgin, the oldest Latin poem about miracles performed by Mary, features lively tales…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marco Girolamo Vida (1485'-1566), humanist and bishop, came to prominence as a Latin poet in the Rome of Leo X and Clement…

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

Charles Darwin''s On the Origin of Species is one of the most important and yet least read scientific works in the history…

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The Life of Saint Neilos of Rossano is a snapshot of a distinctive moment before the schism between the churches of Rome and…

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

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Francesco Filelfo''s On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de'' Medici, discussing the…

During the 30's and 40's, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after…

Written in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential…

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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In the tenth century, an anonymous scholar crafted an Old English version of Saint Augustine''s Soliloquia, which explores…

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

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

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Giovanni Boccaccio (1313'-1375) devoted his last decades to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous…

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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Aldus Manutius (c. 1451'-1515) was the most important scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. His Aldine Press was…

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American dispute resolution is more adversarial, compared with systems of other economically advanced countries. Americans…

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

A groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient…

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

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

John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the development of philosophical…

Theft of a Tree, by the sixteenth-century poet Nandi Timmana, recounts how Krishna stole the parijata, a wish-granting tree,…

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

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

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The Life and Death of Theodore of Stoudios collects three important works promoting the influential Constantinople monastery…

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

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

John Geometres''s Life of the Virgin Mary, a work of outstanding theological sophistication animated by deeply felt devotion…

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

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

Writings on Body and Soul includes a selection of the theological, historical, and devotional works of Aelred, the…

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

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

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

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination…