Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

Collection of Hegel''s most important political writings (apart from Philosophy of Right) appearing together for the first time in English.

An introduction to medieval economic thought from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries.

Collection containing thirty-five letters and sermons of St Augustine on politics, addressing essential themes in Augustine''s thought.

This 2001 book is a comprehensive study of the curriculum of school education in medieval and Renaissance Italy.

A major addition to the Cambridge Texts series of writings by Thomas Aquinas (1225–74).

Goldman examines the origins of social policies, focusing on the Social Science Association.

This book looks at how Elizabeth I managed to be queen, in the face of considerable male opposition.

A major study of the impact of Renaissance humanism upon the English colonization of America.

A provocative interpretation of Descartes that claims the cogito should be read as an intuition.

This 2003 book is a major study of the work of Hobbes, Locke, and their contemporaries.

New theory of relationship between feminism and postmodernism, using close readings of literature, film, ethics.

Comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire from the 1540s to the 1740s.

The key writings of the author of the Declaration of Independence are presented in a clear and accessible format.

This book provides a philosophical analysis of the reasoning appropriate to the history of ideas.

A major new sequence of works from one of the world''s leading historians of ideas.

An examination of the emergence of the phenomenon of deductive argument in classical Greek mathematics.

A pioneering analysis of duelling, politeness and civility in early modern England.

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This book explores natural law theories in the early Enlightenment from Grotius to Kant.

A study of the importance of the language of rights during three crucial periods in American history.

This book shows how the Age of Reason actually began during the late Middle Ages.

A 2001 reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history, treating the civil and metaphysical philosophers as rival intellectual cultures.

Third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world''s leading historians.

Explores women''s responses to Cartesian philosophy and its intellectual legacy in England and Europe.

Important and learned contribution to the cultural and educational history of Elizabethan England.

This book explores Friedrich Nietzsche''s response to the debates sparked by Charles Darwin''s The Origin of Species.

This book offers an analysis of the concept of ''national character'' in the intellectual histories of Britain and France.

This 2002 book is a study of myth and controversy in Britain''s role in the First World War.

The most accessible rendition ever of a classic of political thought in action.

This book systematically traces the development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity.

New interpretations of the ways in which early modern French literature was influenced by, and responded to, the works of Virgil.

'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!

A new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre, offering insights into how her work reflected the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period.

Sixty-sixth annual volume, taking in a range of topics relating to the literature of the period, from the power of naming to Shakespeare and Spenser, Herbert, Margaret Tyler and Margaret Cavendish, and Ben Jonson.

This year's volume offers many contributions on early modern drama alongside essays probing identity, iconography, and devotional imagery in religious spaces and artworks.

Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama and the cultural anxieties it expresses.

Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on English drama, particularly Jonson and Marlowe.

Features the best scholarly essays from the 2013 Southeastern Renaissance Conference held at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, including essays on Renaissance poetics, friendship, and representations of women.

Yearly volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, focusing on sexuality in Elizabethan poetry, Renaissance drama and its links to the wider culture, and on seventeenth-century literature.

WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOKA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDElizabeth Anscombe: defiantly brilliant, chain-smoking, trouser-wearing Catholic and (eventual) mother of seven.

**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM**Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself.

One of the most important works of the Enlightenmentin the first new, unabridged English translation in more than two centuriesPublished in four volumes between 1784 and 1791, Herder's Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind is one of the most important works of the Enlightenmenta bold, original, and encyclopedic synthesis of, and contribution to, the era's philosophical debates over nature, history, culture, and the very meaning of human experience.

An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar.

A photography book that is a vital accompaniment to the many fans of Hilary Mantel's bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy, now a major TV series'At the very beginning of the twentieth century, Zola said, 'In my view you cannot claim to have really seen something till you have photographed it.

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.

A reassessment of how the legacy of ancient philosophy functioned in early modern EuropeIn his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle affirms that despite his friendship with Plato, he was a better friend of the truth.

A holistic view of human development that rejects the conventional stages of childhood, adulthood, and old ageWhen we talk about human development, we tend to characterize it as proceeding through a series of stages in which we are first children, then adolescents, and finally, adults.

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

The decades following the end of World War II witnessed the establishment of a large and diverse German-American scholarly community studying modern German history.

Friedrich Nietzsche is often depicted in popular and scholarly discourse as a lonely philosopher dealing with abstract concerns unconnected to the intellectual debates of his time and place.