Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

This book examines the cultural production of Catalan intellectuals in Cuba through a reading of texts and journeys that show the contrapuntal relationship between transcultural identities and narratives of nationhood.

This monograph is a study of the work of British author A.

This book explores the constitutional debates of the Year 3 of the French Revolution (also known as Year 1 of the French Republic) and the drafts for the Declaration and the Constitution of 1793.

It was not so long ago that the dominant picture of Kant's practical philosophy was forma-listic, focusing almost exclusively on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason.

This book discusses key works by important writers from Church of Ireland backgrounds (from Farquhar and Swift to Beckett and Bardwell), in order to demonstrate that writers from this Irish subculture have a unique socio-political viewpoint which is imperfectly understood.

This book examines how left-wing political and cultural movements in Western Europe have considered Jews in the last two hundred years.

This book consists of ten essays that examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke what Lawrence L.

This is the first ample collection of facetiae, or witty tales, from the Italian Renaissance to be published in English.

This book reveals the sense in which our postmodern societies are characterized by the obscene absence of the intellectual.

The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in early modern Anglophone literature and culture.

An introduction to Cervantes's complex masterpiece.

The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image.

This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership.

An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to suffering were changing.

In the early twentieth century, a small group of psychologists built a profession upon the new social technology of intelligence testing.

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Examines humility as a key to the Comedy''s poetry, demonstrating its theological vibrancy for today''s readers.

A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.

Experience deep wholeness in your life that springs forth from the peace of God.

China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era.

Despite our best efforts to create welcoming and affirming congregations, the reality is that church can still be a harmful place to LGBTQIA youth.

Uniting twelve original studies by scholars of early modern history, literature, and the arts, this collection is the first that foregrounds the dialectical quality of early modern Orientalism by taking a broad interdisciplinary perspective.

This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia.

This book is the first study to engage with the relationship between cosmopolitan political thought and the history of global conflicts.

Inside "e;Paradise Lost"e; opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse.

In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C.

From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us-and always will beIn this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election of Donald Trump, Justin Smith argues that irrationality makes up the greater part of human life and history.

Anthony Copley's A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuriesThanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information.

A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions.

How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the United States.

Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales and Scotland.

Rocks of nation reveals how the imagination of nations and races is grounded in the landscape.

Anthony Copley's A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

Roadworks: Medieval Britain, medieval roads is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales and Scotland.

This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech.

This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech.

This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present.

This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present.

Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, with a focus on the surprising ways that texts interacted with writers and readers at specific cultural moments.

This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016).

This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016).

How writers respond to a cosmology in evolution in the sixteenth century and how literature and space implicate each other are the guiding issues of this volume in which sixteen authors explore the topic of space in its multiform incarnations and representations.

The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety.

Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since.

Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France.

Alice was a raven-haired beauty who fell in love with easygoing James.

There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it.

It is rare for a thinker of Charles Peguy's considerable stature and influence to be so neglected in Anglophone scholarship.

Religion and politics during the Renaissance period could be complex topics for young learners to digest, don't you think?