Penn State University Press imprint: 456 books

Subversive Virtue

Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World

by James A. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 1995

Much attention has been devoted in recent years to Christian asceticism in Late Antiquity. But Christianity did not introduce asceticism to the ancient world. An underlying theme of this fascinating study of pagan asceticism is that much of the work on Christian "holy men" has ignored earlier...

Kimbanguism

An African Understanding of the Bible

by Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017

In this volume, Aurélien Mokoko Gampiot, a sociologist and son of a Kimbanguist pastor, provides a fresh and insightful perspective on African Kimbanguism and its traditions. The largest of the African-initiated churches, Kimbanguism claims seventeen million followers worldwide. Like other...

Invading Colombia

Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest

by J. Michael Francis
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008

In early April 1536, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada led a military expedition from the coastal city of Santa Marta deep into the interior of what is today modern Colombia. With roughly eight hundred Spaniards and numerous native carriers and black slaves, the Jiménez expedition was larger than the combined...

Spiritual Modalities

Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance

by William FitzGerald
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012

A bold recasting of prayer as a rhetorical art, Spiritual Modalities investigates situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to divine audiences. Examining how prayer “works,” Spiritual Modalities reads prayer’s situations and strategies, its characteristic acts and...

Lessons from America

Liberal French Nobles in Exile, 1793–1798

by Doina Pasca Harsanyi
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010

Every war has refugees; every revolution has exiles. Most of the refugees of the French Revolution mourned the demise of the monarchy. Lessons from America examines an unusual group who did not. Doina Pasca Harsanyi looks at the American experience of a group of French liberal aristocrats, early participants...

Priests of the French Revolution

Saints and Renegades in a New Political Era

by Joseph F. Byrnes
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014

The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to...

Traumatic Politics

The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution

by Barry M. Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009

The opening events of the French Revolution have stood as some of the most familiar in modern European history. Traumatic Politics emerges as a fresh voice from the existing historiography of this widely studied course of events. In applying a psychological lens to the classic problem of why the French...

Contested Treasure

Jews and Authority in the Crown of Aragon

by Thomas W. Barton
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015

In Contested Treasure, Thomas Barton examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local lords and the crown. The thirteenth century was a formative period for the growth of royal bureaucracy...

Public Forgetting

The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again

by Bradford Vivian
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010

Forgetting is usually juxtaposed with memory as its opposite in a negative way: it is seen as the loss of the ability to remember, or, ironically, as the inevitable process of distortion or dissolution that accompanies attempts to commemorate the past. The civic emphasis on the crucial importance...

Soviet Salvage

Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism

by Catherine Walworth
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected “elitist” mediums and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life. Applying anthropological models borrowed from...

Broken Lights and Mended Lives

Theology and Common Life in the Early Church

by William Caferro
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990

A discussion by a broadly respected authority of the complicated relationship between theology and ordinary life in the early church. The first section of the book scrutinizes theology with a view to understanding its bearing upon Christian understandings of life (the theological “stories” of...

Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue

Capitalism and Civil Society in the British Enlightenment

by Mark Garrett Longaker
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015

During the British Enlightenment, the correlation between effective communication and moral excellence was undisputed—so much so that rhetoric was taught as a means of instilling desirable values in students. In Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue, Mark Garrett Longaker explores the connections...

Museum Rhetoric

Building Civic Identity in National Spaces

by M. Elizabeth Weiser
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017

In today’s diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in which individuals can both engage critical thought and celebrate community. This volume uses the lens of rhetoric to explore the role these societal repositories play in establishing and altering cultural...

S. Weir Mitchell, 1829–1914

Philadelphia's Literary Physician

by Nancy Cervetti
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012

This modern biography provides a comprehensive and balanced view of a legendary figure in American medicine. Controversial because of his fierce fight against women’s rights, S. Weir Mitchell achieved stunning success through his experimentation with venomous snakes, treatment of Civil War soldiers...
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