University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Lost Letters of Medieval Life
English Society, 1200-1250
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. The documents presented here include letters between masters and servants, husbands and wives,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
In the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful craftsmen's guilds. The intensity of Florentine factionalism and the frequent alterations in its political institutions gave Renaissance thinkers ample...
by Amy Appleford
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380s—just a generation after the Black Death—and the first decade of the English reformation in the 1530s, Amy Appleford offers the first full-length study of the Middle...
The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker
The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eighteenth-century life in America from a woman's perspective. Drinker wrote in her diary nearly continuously between 1758 and 1807, from two years before her marriage...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
From the start of the U.S. war in Afghanistan in 2001 to the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2014, Pakistan's military cooperation was critical to the United States. Yet Pakistani politics remain a source of anxiety for American policymakers. Despite some progress toward democratic consolidation over...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
In Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship, scholars from a wide range of disciplines reflect on the transformation of the world away from the absolute sovereignty of independent nation-states and on the proliferation of varieties of plural citizenship. The emergence of possible new forms of allegiance...
by Jenna Reinbold
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been called one of the most powerful documents in human history. Today, the mere accusation of violations of the rights outlined in this document cows political leaders and riles the international community. Yet as a nonbinding document with no mechanism...
The Garden of Delights
Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In The Garden of Delights, Fiona J. Griffiths offers the first major study of the Hortus deliciarum, a magnificently illuminated manuscript of theology, biblical history, and canon law written both by and explicitly for women at the end of the twelfth century. In so doing she provides a brilliantly...
Monastic Bodies
Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Shenoute of Atripe led the White Monastery, a community of several thousand male and female Coptic monks in Upper Egypt, between approximately 395 and 465 C.E. Shenoute's letters, sermons, and treatises—one of the most detailed bodies of writing to survive from any early monastery—provide an unparalleled...
Out of Sorts
On Typography and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The new history of the book has constituted a vibrant academic field in recent years, and theories of print culture have moved to the center of much scholarly discourse. One might think typography would be a basic element in the construction of these theories, yet if only we would pay careful attention...
Optiques
The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Andrea Goulet takes the study of the novel into the realm of the visual by situating it in the context of nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical discourse about the nature of sight. She argues that French realism, detective fiction, science fiction, and literature of the fantastic from 1830...
Dearest Wilding
A Memoir, with Love Letters from Theodore Dreiser
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
A candid and intimate chapter in the life of a modern woman, Yvette Eastman's vivid narrative also contributes richly to the life story of Theodore Dreiser. Dearest Wilding: A Memoir records the journey that took Yvette Szekely from an upper-middle-class scholar's home in Budapest to the intellectual...
Making New York Dominican
Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Large-scale emigration from the Dominican Republic began in the early 1960s, with most Dominicans settling in New York City. Since then the growth of the city's Dominican population has been staggering, now accounting for around 7 percent of the total populace. How have Dominicans influenced New York...
The Complexion of Race
Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons—but neither was the statement that followed:...