University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
by Shannon McSheffrey
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Awarded honorable mention for the 2007 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association
How were marital and sexual relationships woven into the fabric of late medieval society, and what form did these relationships take? Using extensive documentary evidence from both...
The Good Women of the Parish
Gender and Religion After the Black Death
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
There was immense social and economic upheaval between the Black Death and the English Reformation, and contemporary writers often blamed this upheaval on immorality, singling out women's behavior for particular censure. Late medieval moral treatises and sermons increasingly connected good behavior...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Between 1500 and 1700, London grew from a minor national capital to the largest city in Europe. The defining period of growth was the period from 1550 to 1650, the midpoint of which coincided with the end of Elizabeth I's reign and the height of Shakespeare's theatrical career.
In Material...
Tragicomic Redemptions
Global Economics and the Early Modern English Stage
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In the early modern period, England radically expanded its participation in an economy that itself was becoming increasingly global. Yet less than twenty years after the highly profitable English East India Company made its first voyage, England was suffering from an economic depression, blamed largely...
American Gandhi
A. J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
When Abraham Johannes Muste died in 1967, newspapers throughout the world referred to him as the "American Gandhi." Best known for his role in the labor movement of the 1930s and his leadership of the peace movement in the postwar era, Muste was one of the most charismatic figures of the...
Radical Pacifism in Modern America
Egalitarianism and Protest
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Radical Pacifism in Modern America traces cycles of success and decline in the radical wing of the American peace movement, an egalitarian strain of pacifism that stood at the vanguard of antimilitarist organizing and American radical dissent from 1940 to 1970.
Using traditional archival material...
Shades of Difference
Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Was there such a thing as a modern notion of race in the English Renaissance, and, if so, was skin color its necessary marker? In fact, early modern texts described human beings of various national origins—including English—as turning white, brown, tawny, black, green, or red for any number of...
Battle Lines
Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately...
Engaging the Ottoman Empire
Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Daniel O'Quinn investigates the complex interpersonal, political, and aesthetic relationships between Europeans and Ottomans in the long eighteenth century. Bookmarking his analysis with the conflict leading to the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz on one end and the 1815 bid for Greek independence on the...
Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century
Social Questions and Philosophical Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Friedrich Nietzsche is often depicted in popular and scholarly discourse as a lonely philosopher dealing with abstract concerns unconnected to the intellectual debates of his time and place. Robert C. Holub counters this narrative, arguing that Nietzsche was very well attuned to the events and issues...
Barbarous Antiquity
Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater...
Crossing Borders
Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary...
Shame and Honor
A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
"It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think."—HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Founded by Edward III in 1348, the Most Noble Order of the Garter is the highest chivalric honor among the gifts of the Queen of England...
Animal Encounters
Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a whole...