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A comprehensive overview of the writings of Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown, lawyer, educator, and early modern polymath. Includes many of Pastorius’s unpublished manuscripts as well as new translations of German-language tracts printed in his lifetime.
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A comprehensive, annotated English translation of Eugène Delacroix’s most significant writings during his travels in Morocco, Algeria, and southern Spain, recording his observations of places, people, costume, landscapes, and architecture.
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Presents a new approach to Jorge Luis Borges’ work, exploring dimensions of his literary project involving theology, blindness, literary imagination, gender, sexuality, and suicide.
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Explores the ways in which visual imagery was used for animal advocacy campaigns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the ways in which these images were created, circulated, and consumed in a wide range of cultural contexts.
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Examines U.S. obscenity trials in the early twentieth century and how they framed a wide-ranging debate about the printed word’s power to deprave, offend, and shape behavior.
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A collection of writings by papal advisor and historian Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), including letters, treatises, reports, and orations spanning his long career in service to the Medici.
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Through drawings, paintings, and poetic, prayerful affirmations grounded firmly in the Jewish experience, the author offers a creative response to her mother’s final illness and death.
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Examines the book of Ecclesiastes, arguing that it may have served as a provocative voice for, or as a catalyst to, the emergence of apocalyptic eschatology and later sectarian conflicts within Judaism in the mid–Second Temple period.
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Explores the philosophical significance of gluttony in Paradise Lost, arguing that a complex understanding of gluttony and of ideal, grateful, and gracious eating informs the content of Milton’s writing.
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"Examines the Yehudite community in Elephantine in southern Egypt in its historical, social, and religious context"--
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A report on the archaeological findings of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, focusing on questions of Philistine culture and bringing together research from more than thirty scholars covering all aspects of ancient life in Ashkelon during Iron Age I.
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A collection of essays that evaluate the continued relevance of iconographic studies within current art-historical scholarship by exploring the fluidity of iconography itself.