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A study by Marcia L. Colish of the patriarch treatises of Ambrose of Milan (c. 340-397), in which he develops an ethics for the laity and a corpus of works aimed at the conversion of pagan Roman adults to Christianity, Christian ethics for the common man emerges.
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This title provides a comprehensive analytical overview of public dialogue among 19th century American... Læs mere
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This text takes a serious look at Dante's relation to Latin grammar and the new ""mother tongue"" - Italian vernacular - by exploring the cultural significance of the nursing mother in medieval discussions of language and selfhood.
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These essays are a treatment of one of the changes that have shaped Latin America since independence: decentralization of the state. Contributors argue... Læs mere
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Margaret Stieg Dalton offers a comprehensive study of the German Catholic cultural movement that lasted from the late 19th century until 1933. Her book examines the encounter of clergy and lay Catholics with both high culture and popular culture in Germany
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DeTemple examines how religion plays a role in community development in rural contemporary Ecuador.
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Makes available in translation a riveting sixteenth-century chronicle of European and North African cultural contacts that is... Læs mere
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Introduces Emily Dickinson as the iconic female writer who, unread in her time, is frequently misinterpreted and unheard. This work relates Dickinson's self-isolation to the writer's isolation from... Læs mere
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Gives us guidance, while delivering a meditation on the real glimpses of the limits on a life. Displaying an agility of formal invention - this work moves from a Whitmanesque and witty litany to rhymed quatrains.
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Maurice Blanchot is perhaps best known as a major French intellectual of the twentieth century. In Clandestine Encounters, Kevin... Læs mere
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Examines John Milton’s imaginative engagement with, and theological passion for, the Incarnation. Richly drawing upon the... Læs mere
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Consists of ten essays that explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the press, through questions of audience, and genre, to... Læs mere