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  • Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon

    Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry

    Edited by Avi Lifschitz, Michael Squire ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (Laocoon, or on the Limits of Painting and Poetry) in 1766. Over the last 250 years, Lessing's essay has exerted an incalculable influence on western critical thinking. Not only has it directed the history of post-Enlightenment aesthetics, it has also shaped the very practices of 'poetry' and 'painting' ... Read more

    $109.79 USD

  • Engaging with Rousseau

    Reaction and Interpretation from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

    Edited by Avi Lifschitz ...
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been cast as a champion of Enlightenment and a beacon of Romanticism, a father figure of radical revolutionaries and totalitarian dictators alike, an inventor of the modern notion of the self, and an advocate of stern ancient republicanism. Engaging with Rousseau treats his writings as an enduring topic of debate, examining the diverse responses they have attracted from ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Frederick the Great's Philosophical Writings

    by King Frederick II ...
    Translated by Angela Scholar ...
    The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the GreatFrederick II of Prussia (1712–1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics, satires, and more, while maintaining extensive correspondence with prominent intellectuals, Voltaire among them. This edition of selected writings, the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Language and Enlightenment

    The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century

    by Avi Lifschitz ...
    Series series Oxford Historical Monographs
    What is the role of language in human cognition? Could we attain self-consciousness and construct our civilization without language? Such were the questions at the basis of eighteenth-century debates on the joint evolution of language, mind, and culture. Language and Enlightenment highlights the importance of language in the social theory, epistemology, and aesthetics of the Enlightenment. While ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • FEUDAL SOCIETY Vol. I

    The Growth of Ties of Dependence

    by Marc Bloch ...
    Feudal Society is a great work of historical synthesis in the finest French tradition. The author treats feudalism as a living and vitalising force in the society of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. After surveying the social and intellectual conditions in which feudalism developed, Bloch examines the nature of the bond of kinship both as a predecessor and as a concomitant ... Read more

    $6.82 USD

  • Religion and the Rise of Western Culture

    The Classic Study of Medieval Civilization

    by Christopher Dawson ...
    In this new edition of his classic work, Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, Christopher Dawson addresses two of the most pressing subjects of our day: the origin of Europe and the religious roots of Western culture. With the magisterial sweep of Toynbee, to whom he is often compared, Dawson tells here the tale of medieval Christendom. From the brave travels of sixth-century Irish monks to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • New Science

    by Giambattista Vico ...
    Translated by David Marsh ...
    Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • The Capture of Constantinople

    The "Hystoria Constantinopolitana" of Gunther of Pairis

    by Alfred J. Andrea ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The armies of the Fourth Crusade that left Western Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century never reached the Holy Land to fight the Infidel; they stopped instead at Byzantium and sacked that capital of eastern Christendom. Much of what we know today of those events comes from contemporary accounts by secular writers; their perspective is balanced by a document written from a monastic ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Holy Roman Empire

    by Viscount James Bryce ...
    Viscount James Bryce's The Holy Roman Empire is a fascinating history of the Empire. ... Read more

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  • More: Utopia

    by Thomas More ...
    Translated by Robert M. Adams ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Incorporating extensive updates to the editorial apparatus, including the introduction, suggestions for further reading, and footnotes, this third edition of More's Utopia has been comprehensively re-worked to take into account scholarship published since the ... Read more

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  • John Huss and the Hussite Wars: Book 3

    by James Aitken Wylie ...
    J. A. Wylie (1808-1890) is considered by many to be one of the best religious historians of all time. While he penned many books during his lifetime, he is undoubtedly best known for this collection, The History of Protestantism. Originally published as 24 books in 1878, this series is available again either as single eBooks, or grouped into the original three volumes, just as the author intended. ... Read more

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  • Feudal Society

    by Marc Bloch ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Marc Bloch said that his goal in writing Feudal Society was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist would typically write and ‘dismantle a social structure.’ In this outstanding and monumental work, which has introduced generations of students and historians to the feudal period, Bloch treats feudalism as living, breathing force in Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth century. At ... Read more

    $36.99 USD