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Brings Thomistic ethics into conversation with ongoing debates in contemporary moral philosophy, especially virtue theory and moral psychology, and with current trends in narrative theory and the philosophy of history.
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Provides a uniquely rich set of perspectives focused on the relationship between theology and poetry in the Commedia. Examining Dante's treatment of questions of... Læs mere
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This work provides a detailed narrative of the civil war in the Vendee region of western France, which lasted for much of the 1790s but was most intensely fought at the height of the Reign of Terror, from March 1793 to early 1795.
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Originally published in 1988, Jon Roberts's book provided the first comprehensive analytical overview of public dialogue among nineteenth-century American Protestant intellectuals who struggled with the theory of organic evolution.
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In this classic work Marjorie Reeves shows the wide extent of Joachimist influence from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries and demonstrates the continuity between medieval and Renaissance thought in the field of prophecy.
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Contains translations of the funeral orations written by Michael Psellos, the leading Byzantine... Læs mere
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Characterizes the history of early modern mysticism as one in which relationships of continuity within transformations occurred. Rather than focus on the departures of the... Læs mere
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Was the Beowulf-poet a Christian or was he a noble pagan whose outlook had been only slightly colored by exposure to Christian thinking? This is but one of the fascinating topics discussed in this anthology of criticism on the early medieval masterpiece.
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Interpreting Dante is a collection of essays discussing the significance of the Dante commentary tradition on general study of the Comedy, the history of ideas, and literary criticism.
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The spiritual and psychological insights of these essays were nurtured in a monastic milieu, but their issues are universally... Læs mere
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Historical writing of the early middle ages tends to be regarded as little more than a possible source of facts, but Rosamond McKitterick establishes that early medieval historians conveyed in their texts a sophisticated set of multiple perceptions of the past.
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Presents a systematic approach to the Christian liturgy as event rather than text, using tools made available by contemporary performance theory. Richard McCall bridges the work of performance scholarship and liturgical studies in a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary way.