In the memoir The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner for nearly three years at a... Læs mere
Medical Writings from Early Medieval England presents vernacular texts on health and healing—unique local remedies and translations of late antique Latin... Læs mere
John Geometres’s Life of the Virgin Mary, a work of outstanding theological sophistication animated by deeply felt devotion to the Mother of God, remains largely unknown today.... Læs mere
The legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated Christians during the Middle... Læs mere
Guru Nanak founded the Sikh religion, and his vast corpus of hymns forms the core of the Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikhs’ sacred book of ethics, philosophy, and... Læs mere
Paolo Giovio’s Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to Erasmus, Thomas More, and Juan Luis Vives that were meant to... Læs mere
Charles Maier offers a new narrative of the long twentieth century, focused on institutions that shaped... Læs mere
The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History includes essays on topics from historical chronicles to contemporary historiography, and case... Læs mere
What do Germans mean when they say “never again”? Andrew Port examines German responses to the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda, showing how... Læs mere
Zongyuan Zoe Liu provides the first in-depth examination of sovereign funds in China. Under President Xi, the state has... Læs mere
In countries with officially egalitarian property law, women still accumulate less wealth than men. Combining quantitative, ethnographic,... Læs mere
The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts contain early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust’s In Search of... Læs mere