This book examines the legacy of one of the most influential members of Spanish society in the seventeenth-century Philippines, Dominican scholar Juan de Paz.
This book examines the legacy of one of the most influential members of Spanish society in the seventeenth-century Philippines, Dominican scholar Juan de Paz.
This book traces the genesis of the indebtedness of the nation-state in the West, arguing that it is a phenomenon which preceded the emergence of capitalism.
This book traces the genesis of the indebtedness of the nation-state in the West, arguing that it is a phenomenon which preceded the emergence of capitalism.
Entertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language with classical reception, university culture, and Italian humanism.
This book looks at the translations which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions and whose source texts had appeared in the Journal des Scavans during the period 1665 to 1700.
This book looks at the translations which appeared in the Philosophical Transactions and whose source texts had appeared in the Journal des Scavans during the period 1665 to 1700.
This book presents a new reading of the history of French social science and religion through an investigation of early sociology's techniques for narrating the category of belief.
This book presents a new reading of the history of French social science and religion through an investigation of early sociology's techniques for narrating the category of belief.
This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912.
This book provides a unique analysis of how the History of Science became institutionalized in Latin America during the last two decades of the 20th century.
This book provides a unique analysis of how the History of Science became institutionalized in Latin America during the last two decades of the 20th century.
This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912.
Philippe de Vigneulles (1471-1528), cloth merchant and hosier from the city of Metz, wrote a collection of comic short stories which he called Cent Nouvelles ou contes joyeux.
Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic works of the period which combined to an unusual degree the arts of poetry, music, acting, and dance.
Narratives of Working Women in Early Modern London: Gendering the City analyzes depictions of non-elite, working women in relation to specific London neighborhoods and sites in early modern drama and culture from primarily the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century.
Although there has been a general revival of interest in Ben Jonson's dramatic work in the past twenty years, little critical effort has been directed to his late plays-dismissed by John Dryden as the "e;dotages"e; of an aging mind.
Giraldi Cinthio's Discorso intorno al comporre dei romanzi, here translated into English for the first time, was one of the most important critical works of the Renaissance.
Das Sonett konstituiert in seiner langen Geschichte immer wieder soziale Räume für spezifische Gemeinschaften – zwischen Lebenden, aber auch über die Jahrhunderte hinweg mit historischen Personen.
Shakespeare has been viewed by critics both as a secular writer who affirmed the dual nature of man and as a Christian allegorist whose work has a submerged but positive and elaborate pattern of Christian meaning.
Milton, the arch-Puritan and outspoken critic of the stereotyped rituals of the established churches, has been regarded by most scholars as a writer who is unlikely to have employed liturgical materials in his poetry.
In this book, Walter Foreman studies the closing scenes of Shakespeare's tragedies, considering the tragic structure of the plays and the shapes the tragic characters give their lives by the way they encounter death.
