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

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

In US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism dissolve…

The main literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those Neo-Latin writers favoring Cicero alone as the apotheosis of Latin…

Leon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical…

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

The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of…

The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. More than…

The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind…

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

Biblical and Pastoral Poetry was written by Alcimus Avitus, bishop of Vienne, in the late fifth or early sixth century. This…

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Chinese Animation is the first edited book that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies,…

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

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For the first time in the history of Beowulf scholarship, the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole…

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

This book, by one of the most respected scholars of the Romantic era, offers an explanation of Romanticism that not only…

The Old English History of the World, produced around the year 900, is an anonymous translation and adaptation of Paulus…

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

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

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

The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463'-1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the…

Imprisoned for conspiring against Pope Paul II, Platina (1421'-1481) returned to favor under Pope Sixtus IV, and composed…

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

The 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…

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

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The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio'-a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de'' Medici and…

Nicholas of Cusa (1401'-1464), a student of canon law who became a Catholic cardinal, was widely considered the most…

In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on…

Sociologist Mike Savage shows how economic inequality aggravates cultural, social, and political conflicts, challenging the…

This is an introduction to Jacques Lacan's approach to therapy, from the point of view of a practitioner faced with the…

In a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in…

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Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Pevná, Počet stran: 496, Nakladatelství: Harvard University Press, Autor: Eswar S. Prasad,…

This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern…

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

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

Using a vast array of specific cases and clear, helpful diagrams, Raiffa not only elucidates the step-by-step processes of…

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

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

According to Yeats, rhetoric is the expression of one''s quarrels with others, while poetry is the expression (and sometimes…

What do Germans mean when they say '"never again'"? Andrew Port examines German responses to the genocides in Cambodia,…

Electronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The…

From the ashes of empire, the nation rose on a wave of idealism. That, at least, is the standard tale. Dominique Reill…

A Spanish-born Jesuit trained in psychology at the University of Chicago and killed by a Salvadoran death squad in 1989,…

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

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In 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at…

Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the '"adopted daughter'" of an Inuit…