Truman State University Press: 145 books
by Carol Trowbridge
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Andrew Taylor Still lost confidence and hope in the medical therapies of his day after three of his children died of meningitis in 1864. He became obsessed with finding the cause and the cure for disease. Still developed a philosophy of osteopathy that was holistic, naturalistic, and emphasized health...
Hospital on the Move
Life with the 79th Field Hospital in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
This is a personal story of life with the 79th Field Hospital told through letters, photos, news clippings, and memorabilia collected by the late Lt. Gilbert Kohlenberg. Told by his widow, Mary Jane Kohlenberg, Lt. j.g. USN (ret.), the story follows Company Commander Lt. Kohlenberg as he supervised the...
by Natalie Zemon Davis, Denis Crouzet, Michael Wolfe (ed.)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The pathbreaking work of renowned historian Natalie Zemon Davis has added profoundly to our understanding of early modern society and culture. She rescues men and women from oblivion using her unique combination of rich imagination, keen intelligence, and archival sleuthing to uncover the past. Davis...
Patronage and Dynasty
The Rise of the della Rovere in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
This collection of essays offers a thorough study of the patron-artist relationship through the lens of one of early modern Italy’s most powerful and influential historical families. Contributors present a longitudinal study of the della Rovere family’s ascent into Italian nobility. The della...
Federico Barocci and the Oratorians
Corporate Patronage and Style in the Counter-Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In 1586, Federico Barocci delivered his Visitation of the Virgin and St. Elizabeth to the Chiesa Nuova in Rome. For the next quarter century, Barocci dominated the art scene in Rome; there was no other artist from whom it was harder to get work and no other artist charged such high prices. Having...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
These essays add a unique perspective to studies that reconstruct the identity of manhood in early modern Europe, including France, Switzerland, Spain, and Germany. The authors examine the ways in which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century authorities, both secular and religious, labored to turn boys and...
Roads Taken
The Professorial Life, Scholarship in Place, and the Public Good
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Public liberal arts colleges are higher education’s gems, yet their intimate campus settings and locations outside of the intellectual-cultural capitals challenge the traditional rhythm of academic careers. Professors trained at elite research institutions, usually located in large urban centers, must...
In Missouri’s Wilds
St. Mary’s of the Barrens and the American Catholic Church, 1818 to 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In 1818, a small group of Catholic clerics established a religious community in southeastern Missouri and opened a school, grounded in its European Vincentian roots but influenced by the isolation of its rural location. St. Mary’s of the Barrens became the first American institution of higher learning...
Paracelsian Moments
Science, Medicine, and Astrology in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Scientific ideas inspired by religious, magical, and alchemical themes competed alongside traditional Aristotelian science and the emerging mechanical philosophy in the early modern era. At the center of this ferment was a quirky and creative German physician, Paracelsus, whose religious-alchemical worldview...
by Rebecca Dunham
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
With tender probing and tight, expressive language, The Miniature Room explores the grace and power of the miniscule as it exists within an infinite universe. This 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection utilizes rich imagery and complex interlocking meanings as author Rebecca Dunham builds off...
Noble Strategies
Marriage and Sexuality in the Zimmern Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Through the colorful family histories and rich detail of the Zimmern Chronicle, historian Judith Hurwich examines marriage, family, and sexuality among the early modern German nobility. She uses the house chronicles of the Zimmern family and the families of the counts and barons with whom they intermarried...
Wish You Were Here
Love & Longing in an American Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Wish You Were Here offers a clear-eyed yet tender look at life in the modern Midwest from the perspective of a seventh-generation ruralite. Championing the romance of wide-open spaces in a rapidly urbanizing world, Zachary Michael Jack challenges the stereotypes of rural and small-town midwestern...
The Magical Adventures of Mary Parish
The Occult World of Seventeenth-Century London
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Mary Parish wasn’t your ordinary seventeenth-century woman. She was a “cunning woman," who spent her time in the realm of magic, interacting with fairies, hunting for buried treasures, and communicating with the spirit world, along with her partner, the young aristocrat Goodwin Wharton. Drawing...
Philosophical Works
On the Relation of Philosophy to Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
This volume is devoted to Vermigli’s philosophical writings, consisting of topics from commentaries, with sections on "reason and revelation," "body and soul," "knowledge of God," "providence, miracles, and responsibility," and "freewill and predestination.”