European history: Renaissance

When we talk of platonic love or relationships today, we mean something very different from what Plato meant.

On December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government's attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam.

In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole.

Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters-these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds.

Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined.

In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age, Elizabeth A.

More than two decades have passed since Chicago published the first volume of this groundbreaking work in the Religion and Postmodernism series.

At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a "e;crumbling city"e; populated by "e;broken ruins"e; into a prosperous Christian capital.

The crises of faith that fractured Reformation Europe also caused crises of individual and collective identity.

Gratuitous sex.

In Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution.

Internationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolific poet in Renaissance Florence.

What is the status of religious freedom in the world today?

Surveying the period from the rise of Islam in the early seventh century to the present day, Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads is the first book to investigate in depth the historical interaction among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ideas about when the use of force is justified.

Holy war, sanctioned or even commanded by God, is a common and recurring theme in the Hebrew Bible.

In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world.

What is the status of religious freedom in the world today?

In Northern Ireland, a once seemingly intractable conflict is in a state of transformation.

Surveying the period from the rise of Islam in the early seventh century to the present day, Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads is the first book to investigate in depth the historical interaction among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim ideas about when the use of force is justified.

Since 2001, there has been a tremendous backlash against the very idea that it is possible to be both American and Muslim-the controversy over the so-called "e;Ground Zero Mosque"e; and the attempts to ban shari'a law are examples.

Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions.

Religious terrorism has become the scourge of the modern world.

In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France.

Tariq Ramadan, one of Europe's leading thinkers and one of Islam's most innovative and important voices, explores in this volume what it means to be a Western Muslim, addressing a topic that is vitally important to the futures of both Islam and the West.

The Intifada of 2000-2001 has demonstrated the end of an era of diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Martyrs' Mirror examines the folklore of martyrdom among seventeenth-century New England Protestants, exploring how they imagined themselves within biblical and historical narratives of persecution.

In Northern Ireland, a once seemingly intractable conflict is in a state of transformation.

Holy war, sanctioned or even commanded by God, is a common and recurring theme in the Hebrew Bible.

In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture.

The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon left us stunned, angry, and uncomprehending.

Why are there so few Muslim terrorists?

Why are there so few Muslim terrorists?

In her study of Oberammergau, the Bavarian village famous for its decennial passion play, Helena Waddy argues against the traditional image of the village as a Nazi stronghold.

Islamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of discrimination, racism, hate speeches, physical attacks, and anti-Muslim campaigns.

"e;It incarnates every unclean beast of lust, guile, falsehood, murder, despotism and spiritual wickedness.

Islamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of discrimination, racism, hate speeches, physical attacks, and anti-Muslim campaigns.

"e;It incarnates every unclean beast of lust, guile, falsehood, murder, despotism and spiritual wickedness.

The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany.

Hilal Elver offers an in-depth study of the escalating controversy over the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves.

Volume XXIV of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores relations between Jews and Protestants in modern times.

Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions.

On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.

The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon left us stunned, angry, and uncomprehending.

In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the Rhone in southern France.

In her study of Oberammergau, the Bavarian village famous for its decennial passion play, Helena Waddy argues against the traditional image of the village as a Nazi stronghold.

On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia.

"e;Waging a counterinsurgency war and justified by claims of 'an agreement between Guatemala and God,' Guatemala's Evangelical Protestant military dictator General Rios Montt incited a Mayan holocaust: over just 17 months, some 86,000 mostly Mayan civilians were murdered.

In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world.

Since 2001, there has been a tremendous backlash against the very idea that it is possible to be both American and Muslim-the controversy over the so-called "e;Ground Zero Mosque"e; and the attempts to ban shari'a law are examples.

A Choice 2015 Outstanding Academic TitleThroughout history, Muslim men have been depicted as monsters.