In Medieval Muslim Historians and the Franks in the Levant seven leading scholars examine the historical writings of seven medieval Muslim historians whose works provide the core chronographical texts for reconstructing the events of the crusading period, 1097-1291.
Be Sober and Reasonable deals with the theological and medical critique of "e;enthusiasm"e; in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and with the relationship between enthusiasm and the new natural philosophy in that period.
In the past two decades, scholarship in the Humanities and in the Social Sciences has witnessed the synchronic and often tangled rise of Ritual and Performance Studies.
The author shows how the history of the classical tradition in Russia cannot be separated from the history of Russia's orientation to Western Europe in general.
In The Globalization of Renaissance Art: A Critical Review, Daniel Savoy assembles an interdisciplinary group of scholars to evaluate the global discourse on early modern European art.
In The Politics of Print During the French Wars of Religion, Gregory Haake examines how, in late sixteenth-century France, authors and publishers used the new medium of the printed text to control the terms of public discourse and determine history, or at least their narrative of it.
