Please enter a valid search term.
Currently Displaying Results
1176501-1176525 of 1546030
View book details for Texts of the Passion
Latin Devotional Literature and Medieval Society
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In this book Thomas H. Bestul constructs the literary history of the Latin Passion narratives, placing them within their social, cultural, and historical contexts. He examines the ways in which the Passion is narrated and renarrated in devotional treatises, paying …
View book details for On the Government of Rulers
De Regimine Principum
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Ptolemy, considered a proto-Humanist by some, combined the principles of Northern Italian republicanism with Aristotelian theory in his De Regimine Principum, a book that influenced much of the political thought of the later Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the early …
View book details for Cities of Ladies
Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 12-1565
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn the early thirteenth century, semireligious communities of women began to form in the cities and towns of the Low Countries. These beguines, as the women came to be known, led lives …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more …
View book details for Keeping Up with the Joneses
Envy in American Consumer Society, 189-193
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
A century ago many Americans condemned envy as a destructive emotion and a sin. Today few Americans expect criticism when they express envy, and some commentators maintain that the emotion drives the economy. This shift in attitude is Susan Matt's …
View book details for To March for Others
The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In 1966, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an African American civil rights group with Southern roots, joined Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers union on its 250-mile march from Delano to Sacramento, California, to protest the exploitation …
View book details for Envisioning an English Empire
Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it.The founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no …
View book details for The Burgundian Code
Book of Constitutions or Law of Gundobad; Additional Enactments
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
"Gives the reader a portrayal of the social institutions of a Germanic people far richer and more exhaustive than any other available source."from the Foreword, by Edward PetersFrom the bloody clashes of the third and fourth centuries there emerged a …
View book details for Security and Suspicion
An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In Israel, gates, fences, and walls encircle public spaces while guards scrutinize, inspect, and interrogate. With a population constantly aware of the possibility of suicide bombings, Israel is defined by its culture of security. Security and Suspicion is a closely …
View book details for William Langland's "Piers Plowman"
The C Version
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
William Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the major poetic monuments of medieval England and of world literature. Probably composed between 1372 and 1389, the poem survives in three distinct versions. It is known to modern readers largely through the …
View book details for The Origins of Courtliness
Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-121
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic BookArgues that the origins of courtliness lie in the German courts, their courtier class, and the education for court service in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
View book details for Righteous Persecution
Inquisition, Dominicans, and Christianity in the Middle Ages
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Righteous Persecution examines the long-controversial involvement of the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans, with inquisitions into heresy in medieval Europe. From their origin in the thirteenth century, the Dominicans were devoted to a ministry of preaching, teaching, and pastoral care, …
View book details for The Fury of Men's Gullets
Ben Jonson and the Digestive Canal
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In The Fury of Men's Gullets, Bruce Boehrer explores the poet's fascination with alimentary matters and the ways in which such references describe Jonson's personal and cultural transformation. In his wide-ranging examination of Jonson's plays, prose, and nondramatic verse, Boehrer …
View book details for The Investiture Controversy
Church and Monarchy from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
"This book describes the roots of a set of ideals that effected a radical transformation of eleventh-century European society that led to the confrontation between church and monarchy known as the investiture struggle or Gregorian reform. Ideas cannot be divorced …
View book details for Frantic Panoramas
American Literature and Mass Culture, 187-192
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Late nineteenth-century America saw an explosion in mass culturefrom sensationalist tabloid newspapers to amusement parks to Wild West shows. Historians and critics have traditionally observed the advent of mass culture as undermining literature's central role in the public sphere. Literary …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Much of the evidenceliterary, historical, documentary, and pictorialfrom ancient Athens is urban in authorship, subject matter, and intended audience. The result has been the assertion of an undifferentiated monolithic "Athenian" citizen regime as often as not identifiably urban in its …
View book details for Astrofuturism
Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space is the first full-scale analysis of an aesthetic, scientific, and political movement that sought the amelioration of racial difference and social antagonisms through the conquest of space. Drawing on the popular …
View book details for Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, Volume 1
Conversion and Apostasy, 373-388 C.E.
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Augustine of Hippo is history's best-known Christian convert. The very concept of conversio owes its dissemination to Augustine's Confessions, and yet, as Jason BeDuhn notes, conversion in Augustine is not the sudden, dramatic, and complete transformation of self we likely …
View book details for Sick Economies
Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
From French Physiocrat theories of the blood-like circulation of wealth to Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of the market, the body has played a crucial role in Western perceptions of the economic. In Renaissance culture, however, the dominant bodily metaphors for …
View book details for Beyond the Persecuting Society
Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
There is a mytheasily shatteredthat Western societies since the Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the differences between individuals and groups, and anothertoo readily acceptedthat before the rise of secularism in the modern period, intolerance and persecution …
View book details for A Kingdom of Priests
Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
According to the account in the Book of Exodus, God addresses the children of Israel as they stand before Mt. Sinai with the words, "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (19:6). The sentence, …
Templar
Should you really keep every promise you make?Lia is thrilled when her parents organise a half-term holiday for not only her, but all her and Ollie's friends as well! But Squidge has a minor accident and can't make it. He …
Templar
Is there ever a kiss without consequences?Lia has everything - glamorous parents, a brother who adores her, good friends, looks, brains . . . and she has remained kind and unpretentious in spite of it! Everyone loves Lia. But when …
Templar
What would happen if you always told nothing but the truth?Cat's always been the perfect girl next door. Thoughtful friend. Supportive girlfriend. Surrogate mother to her three younger siblings, a great help to her dad since her mum died. But …
View book details for The Killers
A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband slave trade. Another son, hidden from his father since birth and condemned as a former felon, falls in with a …
Currently Displaying Results
1176501-1176525 of 1546030