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Roman Law in Context
Roman Law in Context explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600
This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and... Les mer
Modern Art in Eastern Europe
In this award-winning study, Steven Mansbach provides the first coherent narrative of the modern art movements of Eastern Europe. Analyzing a vast... Les mer
Banking and Business in the Roman World
In the first century BC lending and borrowing by the senators was the talk of Rome and even provoked political crises. During this same period, the... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600
This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and... Les mer
Religions of the Ancient Greeks
This is a book about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of... Les mer
Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism
This ambitious study argues that our modern conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from... Les mer
Religions of the Ancient Greeks
This is a book about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of... Les mer
The Performance of Nobility in Early Modern European Literature
This valuable study illuminates the idea of nobility as display, as public performance, in Renaissance and seventeenth-century literature and... Les mer
Food and Society in Classical Antiquity
This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity,... Les mer
Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property
Kevin Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel Johnson. Through detailed analyses of the biographers, critics and epigones who... Les mer
Food and Society in Classical Antiquity
This is the first study of food in classical antiquity that treats it as both a biological and a cultural phenomenon. The variables of food quantity,... Les mer
The Geography of Empire in English Literature, 1580–1745
Between 1580 and 1745 - Edmund Spenser’s journey to an unconquered Ireland and the Jacobite Rebellion - the first British Empire was established.... Les mer
Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583–1671
Most scholars of Anglo-American colonial history have treated colonialism either as an exclusively American phenomenon or, conversely, as a European... Les mer
Romanticism and Postmodernism
The persistence of Romantic thought and literary practice into the late twentieth century is evident in many contexts, from the philosophical and... Les mer
Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy
The spread of printing to Renaissance Italy had a dramatic impact on all users of books. As works came to be diffused more widely and cheaply, so... Les mer
Reading the French Enlightenment
Julie Candler Hayes offers an ambitious reinterpretation of a crucial aspect of Enlightenment thought, the rationalizing and classifying impulse.... Les mer
Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel
This book investigates the critical importance of women to the eighteenth-century debate on property as conducted in the fiction of the period. April... Les mer
Ælfric’s Letter to the Monks of Eynsham
Though best known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Ælfric also composed a Latin ‘letter’ to his fellow monks at... Les mer
The Royal Image
1999 marks the 350th anniversary of the execution of Charles I, and this volume deals with the crisis the execution provoked in the representation of... Les mer
Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry
This book examines descriptions of the natural world in a wide range of Old English poetry. Jennifer Neville describes the physical conditions... Les mer
Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558–1660
The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected or misunderstood. This book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of... Les mer
The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform
This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The... Les mer