An exploration of the past, present, and future of sensory history.
Presents and analyzes texts of learned magic written in medieval Central Europe (Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary), and attempts to identify their authors, readers, and collectors.
A volume of essays on the Hebrew Bible. Jean Bottero sees the Bible as a variety of documents which reveal much about their time of origin, historical... Læs mere
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A collection of essays on civil religion in modern political philosophy, exploring the engagement between modern thought and the Christian tradition.
Surveys the many different impacts of Ciceronian theories on a diverse array of texts and authors between 1100 and 1550, presenting a counternarrative to the widely accepted belief in the dominance of Aristotelianism in early European political and social thought.
Reprint of 1990
Documents an exhibition about how "couples" discourse - about the ways in which artists cope with the social connections and practicalities of being artists in a couple. This catalogue... Læs mere
This catalogue, which accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Palmer Museum of Art, provides new insight into the significance of the sculpture of Robert Arneson (1930-1992), an internationally acclaimed artist and influential teacher.
A painter, sculptor and printmaker, Honore Daumier (1808-1879) was one of the most prolific and important artists... Læs mere
Examines the life of Mira Lloyd Dock, a Pennsylvania conservationist and Progressive Era reformer. Explores a broad range of Dock’s work, including forestry, municipal improvement, public health, and woman suffrage.
Draws on philosophical and novelistic texts from the Western European and Russian canons to explore a crucial moment in the epistemological history of narrative and present a nonreductive way of conjugating the histories of philosophy and the novel.