During the Middle Ages, the Western world translated the incredible Arabic scientific corpus and imported it into Western culture: Arabic philosophy, optics, and physics, as...
In Viennese Jewish Modernism, Abigail Gillman challenges the conventional understanding of modernism as simply a break from tradition. Until recently, the study of Jewish modernism...
Starting With Brunelleschis Invention Of Perspective And Galileos Invention Of The Telescopetwo Inaugural Moments In The History Of Vision, From Two Apparently Distinct Provinces, Art...
Starting with Brunelleschis invention of perspective and Galileos invention of the telescopetwo inaugural moments in the history of vision, from two apparently distinct provinces, art...
Although Raphael has long been recognized as one of the great innovators of visionary painting (images of supernatural phenomena, including apparitions and prophetic visions), the...
Although Raphael has long been recognized as one of the great innovators of visionary painting (images of supernatural phenomena, including apparitions and prophetic visions), the...
One Of The Most Terrible Legacies Of Our Century Is The Concentration Camp. Countless Men And Women Have Passed Through Camps In Nazi Germany, Communist...
One of the most terrible legacies of our century is the concentration camp. Countless men and women have passed through camps in Nazi Germany, Communist...
Vulgar Latin' refers to those features of Latin language that were not recommended by the classical grammarians but existed nonetheless. Although 'Vulgar Latin' is not...
Vulgar Latin' refers to those features of Latin language that were not recommended by the classical grammarians but existed nonetheless. Although 'Vulgar Latin' is not...
The title of this monograph, while intended to intrigue and attract the otherwise unresponsive reader, is not whimsically conceived. Of course, the historical figure of...
Our modern society is flooded with all sorts of devices: TV sets, automobiles, microwaves, mobile phones. How are all these things affecting us? How can...
What, After All, Is a Work of Art? directs our attention toward historicity, the inherent historied nature of thinking, and the artifactual, culturally emergent nature...
In When All of Rome Was Under Construction, architectural historian Dorothy Metzger Habel considers the politics and processes involved in building the city of Rome...
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This book presents a new edition of the classic study of the religious changes that transformed England in the sixteenth century.Henry VIII officially brought the...
In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his twovolume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published...
In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his twovolume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published...
The Environmental Crusaders highlights citizens in Israel, the former Czechoslovakia, and the United States who challenged serious ecological problems and demanded a safe environment and...
Aesthetic alienation may be described as the paradoxical relationship whereby art and truth have come to be divorced from one another while nonetheless remaining entwined....
Published in association with the Bibliographical Society of America and the National First Ladies LibraryAlthough many early U.S. presidents were avid readers and book collectorsGeorge...
Published in association with the Bibliographical Society of America and the National First Ladies LibraryAlthough many early U.S. presidents were avid readers and book collectorsGeorge...
Historians have long been fascinated by the nobility in preRevolutionary France. What difference did nobles make in French society? What role did they play in...
Tales of xenoglossiathe instantaneous ability to read, to write, to speak, or to understand a foreign languagehave long captivated audiences. Perhaps most popular in Christian...
The Grammar of the Unconscious is both an inquiry into certain longstanding conceptual problems and the exemplification of Wittgenstein's grammatical method. The problems are for...
