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Studies the epistemologies of two of the most influential intellectual/spiritual traditions of West Africa: Tijani Sufism and Ifa.Illustrations: 5 ...

Explores tensions in aesthetics and art theory between antique figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional ...

Explores the late medieval concepts of absence and void, with a special focus on the materiality of emptiness in later medieval manuscripts.Publish...

Examines the intersection of private art collecting, domestic social life, and recreational practices in Renaissance Venice.Publisher: Pennsylvania...

A collection of essays addressing the relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects of the technical vocabulary of rhetorical theory.Publi...

A reexamination of French Impressionism, focusing on the culinary metaphors that the most influential nineteenth-century critics used to express at...

A collection of essays on civil religion in modern political philosophy, exploring the engagement between modern thought and the Christian traditio...

A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation...

Explores the architectural and artistic projects of Philip II of Spain, placing them in the wider context of the peninsular, European, and transoce...

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes ...

Examines the relationship between sound and statuary in Western aesthetic thought in light of discourses on aurality emerging within the field of s...

Traces the Nazarene "art of the concept" from its Romantic inception to its academic transformation in the 1830s. Arguing that the Nazarenes, despi...

A collection of essays which deploy rhetorical lenses to explore how mathematics influences the values and beliefs with which we assess the world a...

Studies Romanesque effigies as a distinctive form of medieval sculpture, emphasizing the early twelfth century as a time of rapid change in the art...

Examines the history of Fraktur (illuminated religious manuscripts created and used by Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centur...

A collection of essays that evaluate the continued relevance of iconographic studies within current art-historical scholarship by exploring the flu...

Addresses the question of how and why Horace Walpole and the men of his circle promoted the Gothic style in art, architecture, and literature in th...

Examines sixty-eight women artists in early modern Bologna, revealing how they obtained public commissions and expanded beyond the portrait subject...

Documents 170 bird species in West Virginia, with information on occurrence, population density, change since the first Atlas, and population estim...

Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic rel...

Reducere. In the 1970s, queer Americans demanded access not only to health and social services but also to mainstream Democratic and Republican Party politic...

An art-historical analysis of the Shroud of Turin as a sacred image in the artistic culture of early modern Italy.Publisher: Pennsylvania State Uni...

Inspired by Heidegger's concept of the clearing of being, and by Wittgenstein's ideas on human practice, Theodore Schatzki offers a novel approach ...

A collection of writings by papal advisor and historian Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), including letters, treatises, reports, and orations spa...

Revisits the theme of alienation in modernist literature, finding an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile. Explores exa...

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressAuthor(s): Sean LawrenceNumber of pages: 267Collection: Medieval & Renaissance Literary StudiesPublic...

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressAuthor(s): Cary J. (Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University) NedermanNumber of pages: 24...

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressNumber of pages: 350Collection: Medieval & Renaissance Literary StudiesPublication date: 2021Dimensio...

Explores several classic works of social and political thought, examining how the history of their publication materially affected their meaning an...

Examines political calls for market-based education reform and explores the efforts of public-school advocates to build democratically spirited con...

An anthology of works by nineteenth-century French poet Paul Verlaine, presenting both the French texts and new translations and setting the poems ...

Explores iconoclasm in American art history, focusing on the destruction of the statue of King George III in New York City in 1776. Argues that the...

Explores ten monumental stained-glass windows, designed by the artist Jacob Landau, for the Keneseth Israel synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania....

Addresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq's work. Argues that Houellebecq is the fore...

Explores the use of anti-democratic language in US presidential elections, using examples detailing the political, economic, and cultural elements ...

Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as acade...

A collection of essays analyzing the seventeenth-century British political theorist Thomas Hobbes from a feminist perspective.Publisher: Pennsylvan...

Examines the relationship between sound and statuary in Western aesthetic thought in light of discourses on aurality emerging within the field of s...

A collection of essays delineating the centuries-long dialogue of Jews and Jewish culture with China, all under the overarching theme of cultural t...

Examines the aesthetic principles and spiritual operations at work in Hagia Sophia. Drawing on art and architectural history, liturgy, musicology, ...

Examines the life of Catherine of Aragon, focusing on her personal possessions and the items she bequeathed to those she left behind, to better und...

An exploration of Vulgar Latin, those features of Latin language that were not recommended by the classical grammarians but existed nonetheless. It...

Examines a series of linked case studies that not only highlight moments of seeming disconnect between seeing and believing, including hoaxes, mira...

Explores the life, career, and intellectual debates of art historian Meyer Schapiro, who worked at the nexus of artistic and intellectual practice ...

Explores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connecti...

.Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressIllustration(s): 13 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 96Collection: Graphic MedicinePublica...

A collection of essays addressing the relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects of the technical vocabulary of rhetorical theory.Publi...

Explores the sociogenesis and development of the French royal mistress, examining the careers of nine of the most significant holders of that title...

Examines the role of religion in LGBT activism in Kenya. Offers case studies of creative forms of queer visibility through which Kenyan LGBT indivi...

Examines the theoretical framing of "nature" in South Africa and beyond. Analyzes myths and fantasies that have brought the world to a point of cli...

A collection of essays exploring how biocultural and literary dynamics acted together to shape conceptions of sleep states in the early modern peri...

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of t...

Focuses on how technologies mediate our actions and our world perceptions. Peter-Paul Verbeek examines the philosophy of technology formulated by J...

Studies popular tropes in the United States for Mexican immigrants, tracing the history and usage of terms that were shaped by race, class, and nat...

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressAuthor(s): Fabien ToulmeTranslator: Hannah ChuteNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

A narrative, in graphic novel format, following Cristina Duran and Miguel Angel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daugh...

A reassessment of the regency of Queen Mariana of Austria (1634-1696) during the minority of her son, King Carlos II of Spain, offering a new persp...

A collection of essays on the work of Latin American philosopher Enrique Dussel, focusing on his ethics of liberation.Illustrations: 4 ChartsEditor...

Reducere. Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Los...

English translations of two major treatises, Tinctor's Invectives and the anonymous Recollectio, that arose from the famous Arras witch hunts and t...

An exploration of the religious contexts of Virginia Woolf's life and work, her religious practices, her ideas about God, and the new forms of comm...

Taxes dominate contemporary American politics. Yet while many rail against big government, few Americans are prepared to give up the benefits they ...

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressAuthor(s): Francis H. CookNumber of pages: 164Publication date: 1977Dimensions: 231 x 165 x 11Cover t...

Examines legal documents and magic texts relevant to two cases where authorities in Tudor England confronted practicing magicians. Explores how mag...

An investigation into the history of ciphers, codebreaking, and artificial languages that focuses on the Rohonc Codex, a four-hundred-year-old manu...

A graphic novel depicting the stories of women who fought with the National Liberation Front in the Algerian War of Independence.Illustrations: 128...

Examines the life and work of William Lamport (d. 1659), an Irish rebel, soldier, poet, and thinker who was burned at the stake by the Inquisition ...

Explores the role of technology in journalism using historical narratives and empirical analysis. Argues for slower-paced journalism that prioritiz...

A series of vignettes, in graphic novel format, that explore the lives of ten young Iranian men and women from diverse backgrounds.Publisher: Penns...