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Dante's Lyric Poetry
Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse...
The Unfolding of Words
Commentary in the Age of Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Leading sixteenth-century scholars such as Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus used print technology to engage in dialogue and debate with authoritative contemporary texts. By what Juan Luis Vives termed 'the unfolding of words,' these humanists gave old works new meanings in brief notes and extensive...
The Gargantuan Polity
On The Individual and the Community in the French Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Critics and scholars have long argued that the Renaissance was the period that gave rise to the modern individual. The Gargantuan Polity examines political, legal, theological, and literary texts in the late Middle Ages, to show how individuals were defined by contracts of mutual obligation, which...
Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign
The Rise of the French Vernacular Royal Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Theorizing the Ideal Sovereign, examines the ways in which vernacular biographies of kings from the later French Middle Ages reflected and contributed to transformations in late-medieval political and philosophical thought. Using a lens of literary analysis for works that have more often been read...
Philippe de Commynes
Memory, Betrayal, Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Philippe de Commynes, a diplomat who specialized in clandestine operations, served King Louis XI during his campaign to undermine aristocratic resistance and consolidate the sovereignty of the French throne. He is credited with inventing the political memoir, but his reminiscence has also been described...
The Court Book of Mende and the Secular Lordship of the Bishop
Recollecting the Past in Thirteenth-Century Gévaudan
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008
Mende is a diocese in south-central France where, in the 1260s, scribes of Bishop Odilon de Mercoeur created an extensive court book or register of litigated cases. Their intention was to develop an archive for the use of the chancery as well as to preserve the causae of the episcopal court. These...
The Town of York 1793-1815
A Collection of Documents of Early Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1962
This volume, the fifth of the Ontario Series of the Champlain Society, tells the history of the town of York (Toronto) from the arrival of John Graves Simcoe in 1793 through the war of 1812 until news of the peace reached the town in the spring of 1815. The selection of contemporary documents attempts...
Bringing in the Sheaves
Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The annual harvesting of cereal crops was one of the most important economic tasks in the Roman Empire. Not only was it urgent and critical for the survival of state and society, it mobilized huge numbers of men and women every year from across the whole face of the Mediterranean. In Bringing in the...
Stillness in Motion
Italy, Photography, and the Meanings of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars, theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian culture and photography. Highlighting the depth and complexity of the Italian contribution to the technology and practice of photography, this collection offers essays, interviews,...
Path of Thorns
Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Under Bolshevik and Nazi rule, nearly one-third of all Soviet Mennonites – including more than half of all adult men – perished, while a large number were exiled to the east and the north by the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Others fled westward on long treks, seeking refuge in Germany during the...
Narratology
Introduction to the Theory of Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills...
Rehumanizing Law
A Theory of Law and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
In a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules. Although laws are created and interpreted in legislatures and courtrooms by individuals with very specialized knowledge, the practice and making of law is closely tied to other...
by Michael R. Marrus
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Although difficult to imagine, sixty years ago the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War. Yet today it is understood to be not only one of the defining moments of the twentieth century but also a touchstone in a quest for directions on how to avoid such catastrophes.
In...
Wilde Discoveries
Traditions, Histories, Archives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde’s remarkable career, the “Oscar Wilde and His Circle” archive at the University of California, Los Angeles houses the world’s largest collection of materials relating to the life and work...