A collection of essays exploring how fiction, life-writing, and comics portray illness, medical treatment, and disability.
Examines how French Renaissance travelers consumed and represented Italian space through writing and the imagination. Includes writings by... Læs mere
Examines a series of powerful artifacts traditionally associated with King Solomon, largely via extra-canonical textual... Læs mere
Explores the life, career, and intellectual debates of art historian Meyer Schapiro, who worked at the nexus of artistic and intellectual practice and from there confronted some of the twentieth century’s most abiding questions.
Examines the text and background of The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching, an autobiography by the fourteenth-century Benedictine monk John of Morigny. Explores how the author negotiated the categories of magic and heresy in relation to Christianity.
Inspired by Heidegger's concept of the clearing of being, and by Wittgenstein's ideas on human practice, Theodore Schatzki offers a novel approach to understanding the constitution and transformation of social life.
Focuses on how technologies mediate our actions and our world perceptions. Peter-Paul Verbeek examines the philosophy of... Læs mere
This text examines Swedish culture and mentality and draws upon statistics gathered over more than a decade of research. The author describes a range of factors influencing Swedish character, including population composition, rural background, and even climate.
Julian of Norwich is recognized as one of the great speculative theologians of the Middle Ages, whose... Læs mere