University Of Notre Dame Press: 347 books
Race in Mind
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
These essays analyze how race affects people's lives and relationships in all settings, from the United States to Great Britain and from Hawaiʻi to Chinese Central Asia. They contemplate the racial positions in various societies of people called Black and people called White, of Asians and Pacific...
Uses and Abuses of Moses
Literary Representations since the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
In Uses and Abuses of Moses, Theodore Ziolkowski surveys the major literary treatments of the biblical figure of Moses since the Enlightenment. Beginning with the influential treatments by Schiller and Goethe, for whom Moses was, respectively, a member of a mystery cult and a violent murderer, Ziolkowski...
by Kellie Wells
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Kellie Wells is a writer of startling imagination whose "phantasmal stories," Booklist says, "shimmer with a dreamlike vibrancy." God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, Wells's second collection of short stories and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, is populated...
Savage Economy
The Returns of Middle English Romance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance, Walter Wadiak traces the evolution of the medieval English romance from its thirteenth-century origins to 1500, and from a genre that affirmed aristocratic identity to one that appealed more broadly to an array of late medieval communities....
The Quest of the Absolute
Birth and Decline of European Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This eagerly awaited study brings to completion Louis Dupré's planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable erudition and sweeping breadth, The Quest of the Absolute analyzes Romanticism as a unique cultural phenomenon and a spiritual revolution. Dupré philosophically...
Beyond Reformation?
An Essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The essay form that Aers has chosen for his book contributes to the effectiveness of the argument he develops in tandem with the structure of Langland’s poem: he sustains and tests his argument in a series of steps or “passus,” a Langlandian mode of proceeding. His essay unfolds an argument...
Creation as Emanation
The Origin of Diversity in Albert the Great's On the Causes and the Procession of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2001
Creation as Emanation examines Albert's reading of The Book of Causes with an eye toward two questions: First, how does Albert view the relation between faith and reason, so that he can identify creation from nothing with emanation from God? And second, how does he understand Platonism and Aristotelianism,...
Beyond the Inquisition
Ambrogio Catarino Politi and the Origins of the Counter-Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
In Beyond the Inquisition, originally published in an Italian edition in 2007, Giorgio Caravale offers a fresh perspective on sixteenth-century Italian religious history and the religious crisis that swept across Europe during that period. Through an intellectual biography of Ambrogio Catarino Politi...
Debating Medieval Natural Law
A Survey
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In Debating Medieval Natural Law: A Survey, Riccardo Saccenti examines and evaluates the major lines of interpretation of the medieval concepts of natural rights and natural law within the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and explains how the major historiographical interpretations of ius...
Sacred Sound and Social Change
Liturgical Music in Jewish and Christian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 1994
Teachers, students, composers, performers, and other practitioners of sacred sound will appreciate this volume because, unlike any book currently available on sacred music, it treats the history, development, current practices, composition, and critical views of the liturgical music of both the Jewish...
The Golden Cord
A Short Book on the Secular and the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The title of Charles Taliaferro’s book is derived from poems and stories in which a person in peril or on a quest must follow a cord or string in order to find the way to happiness, safety, or home. In one of the most famous of such tales, the ancient Greek hero Theseus follows the string given...
by Jean Wahl, William C. Hackett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
William C. Hackett’s English translation of Jean Wahl’s Existence humaine et transcendence (1944) brings back to life an all-but-forgotten book that provocatively explores the philosophical concept of transcendence. Based on what Emmanuel Levinas called “Wahl’s famous lecture” from 1937,...
Remembering the Troubles
Contesting the Recent Past in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
The historian A. T. Q. Stewart once remarked that in Ireland all history is applied history—that is, the study of the past prosecutes political conflict by other means. Indeed, nearly twenty years after the 1998 Belfast Agreement, "dealing with the past" remains near the top of the political...
Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God
Essays in Honor of Denys Turner
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The essays engage classic Christian thought alongside literary and philosophical sources ranging from Pseudo-Dionysius and Dante to Karl Marx and Jacques Derrida. Building on the work of Denys Turner, they indicate that the boundary between atheism and Christian thought is productively blurry. Instead...