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Political Writings
Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, was one of the most creative political thinkers in eighteenth-century Britain. In this volume, modernised and...
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The Rise and Fall of Languages
This book puts forward a different approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of...
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Political Writings
Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, was one of the most creative political thinkers in eighteenth-century Britain. In this volume, modernised and...
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Describing Morphosyntax
Current estimates are that around 3,000 of the 6,000 languages now spoken may become extinct during the next century. Some 4,000 of these existing...
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The British Idealists
The British idealists made significant and lasting contributions to the social and political thought of the nineteenth century. They contributed to...
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Historical Linguistics and Language Change
Language change happens in the spatio-temporal world. Historical linguistics is the craft linguists exercise upon its results, in order to tell...
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The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria
The Education of a Christian Prince is a new student edition of Erasmus’s crucial treatise on political theory. It contains a new, excerpted...
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Rebels within the Ranks
During the 1930s, psychologists Gordon Allport, Gardner Murphy, and Lois Barclay Murphy emerged from the fields of social and personality psychology...
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The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau’s political writings...
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The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau’s political writings...
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The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings
The work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is presented in two volumes, together forming the most comprehensive anthology of Rousseau’s political writings...
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On the Laws and Governance of England
Sir John Fortescue CJKB (c.1395–c.1477) was undoubtedly the foremost English political scientist of the fifteenth century. This convenient volume...
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On the Laws and Governance of England
Sir John Fortescue CJKB (c.1395–c.1477) was undoubtedly the foremost English political scientist of the fifteenth century. This convenient volume...
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Floire and Blancheflor and the European Romance
This comparative study examines a medieval love story, Floire and Blancheflor, and shows how writers from Spain, France, Italy, England and...
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Hebrew Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library
For some five hundred years, Hebrew books have been counted among the treasures of the University of Cambridge, and Cambridge University Library’s...
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Language and Conceptualization
To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities, or even...
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Guido Reni’s Abduction of Helen
This study explores how Guido Reni’s Abduction of Helen functioned as an instrument of political rhetoric in the context of diplomatic relations...
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The Cambridge Ancient History
With the publication of Volume 13 The Cambridge Ancient History moves into fresh territory. The first edition was completed by Volume 12 which closed...
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Friendship in the Classical World
This book – the only history of friendship in classical antiquity that exists in English – examines the nature of friendship in Greece and Rome...
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Friendship in the Classical World
This book – the only history of friendship in classical antiquity that exists in English – examines the nature of friendship in Greece and Rome...
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Reading Old English Texts
Reading Old English Texts focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection...
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Reading Old English Texts
Reading Old English Texts focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection...
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Trinity and Incarnation in Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought
This book is a study of the theology of the Trinity as expressed in the literature and art of the late Anglo-Saxon period. It examines the meaning of...
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The Composition of Old English Poetry
This book offers an imaginative way of understanding the relationship between syntax and metre in Old English verse. It challenges the view that Old...
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