Penn State University Press: 456 books
by Lia Markey
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence demonstrates that the Medici grand dukes of Florence were not only great patrons of artists but also early conservators of American culture.
In...
London Art Worlds
Mobile, Contingent, and Ephemeral Networks, 1960–1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and ’70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making and thinking about art.
The...
A Saving Science
Capturing the Heavens in Carolingian Manuscripts
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
In A Saving Science, Eric Ramírez-Weaver explores the significance of early medieval astronomy in the Frankish empire, using as his lens an astronomical masterpiece, the deluxe manuscript of the Handbook of 809, painted in roughly 830 for Bishop Drogo of Metz, one of Charlemagne’s sons. Created...
The Power and the Glorification
Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Focusing on a turbulent time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, The Power and the Glorification considers how, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the papacy employed the visual arts to help reinforce Catholic power structures. All means of propaganda were deployed to counter the papacy’s...
Literary Obscenities
U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
This comparative historical study explores the broad sociocultural factors at play in the relationships among U.S. obscenity laws and literary modernism and naturalism in the early twentieth century. Putting obscenity case law’s crisis of legitimation and modernism’s crisis of representation into...
Sacred Plunder
Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the...
Finding Kluskap
A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The Mi’kmaq of eastern Canada were among the first indigenous North Americans to encounter colonial Europeans. As early as the mid-sixteenth century, they were trading with French fishers, and by the mid-seventeenth century, large numbers of Mi’kmaq had converted to Catholicism. Mi’kmaw Catholicism...
David Franks
Colonial Merchant
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
David Franks, a colonial businessman in Philadelphia, was one of the most important figures in American Jewish history in the eighteenth century. This extensively researched biography illuminates not only Franks's personal dealings, but also his business life. Franks was involved with Indian trade,...
Lost Worlds
The Emergence of French Social History, 1815–1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Today’s interest in social history and private life is often seen as a twentieth-century innovation. Most often Lucien Febvre and the Annales school in France are credited with making social history a widely accepted way for historians to approach the past. In Lost Worlds historian Jonathan Dewald...
Plato and Heidegger
A Question of Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In a critique of Heidegger that respects his path of thinking, Francisco Gonzalez looks at the ways in which Heidegger engaged with Plato’s thought over the course of his career and concludes that, owing to intrinsic requirements of Heidegger’s own philosophy, he missed an opportunity to conduct...
Jean Jaurès
The Inner Life of Social Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Jean Jaurès was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of the twentieth century, but he is little remembered today outside of France, and his contributions to political thought are little studied anywhere. In Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy,...
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630–1789
The Legacy for Contemporary Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1991
The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America describes and explores the emergence of a directly democratic political culture in America, the Federalists' theoretical campaign against that culture, and the legacy of the struggle over democracy for politics today. The Rise and Fall of Democracy in...
The Hidden Life of Life
A Walk through the Reaches of Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this compulsively readable book, she provides a plainspoken, big-picture...
Oppression and Responsibility
A Wittgensteinian Approach to Social Practices and Moral Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2002
Combating homophobia, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination and violence in our society requires more than just focusing on the overt acts of prejudiced and abusive individuals. The very intelligibility of such acts, in fact, depends upon a background of shared beliefs, attitudes, and...