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  • A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages

    Edited by Dr Jonathan Hsy, Professor Tory V. Pearman, Professor Joshua R. Eyler ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    The Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other dimensions of human difference. Ideas of disability in courtly romance, saints' lives, chronicles, sagas, secular lyrics, dramas, and pageants demonstrate the nuanced, and sometimes contradictory, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Medievalism: Key Critical Terms

    by Elizabeth Emery, Elizabeth Fay, Gwendolyn Morgan, Jonathan Hsy, Juanita Feros Ruys, Kathleen Biddick, Kevin Moberly, Kevin Murphy, Laura Morowitz, Lauryn S. Mayer0, Richard Utz2, Lisa Reilly3, Louise D'Arcens4, Professor M J Toswell5, Martha Carlin6, Martin Arnold7, Matthew Fisher8, Michael A Cramer9, Nadia Altschul0, Nadia Margolis1, Nils Holger Petersen2, Amy S. Kaufman3, Pamela Clements4, Tom Shippey5, Vincent Ferre6, William Calin7, Zrinka Stahuljak8, Professor Angela Jane Weisl9, Brent Moberly0, Carol L. Robinson1, Clare A Simmons2, David Matthews3, E L Risden4 ...
    The discipline of medievalism has produced a great deal of scholarship acknowledging the "makers" of the Middle Ages: those who re-discovered the period from 500 to 1500 by engaging with its cultural works, seeking inspiration from them, or fantasizing about them. Yet such approaches - organized by time period, geography, or theme - often lack an overarching critical framework. This volume aims to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Trans Historical

    Gender Plurality before the Modern

    Edited by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, Anna Klosowska ...
    Trans Historical explores the plurality of gender experiences that flourished before the modern era, from Late Antiquity to the eighteenth century, across a broad geographic range, from Spain to Poland and Byzantium to Boston.Refuting arguments that transgender people, experiences, and identities were non-existent or even impossible prior to the twentieth century, this volume focuses on archives ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Medieval Fold

    Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual

    by S. Verderber ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments typically associated with this twelfth-century renaissance autobiography, lyric, courtly love, romance can be traced to the Church's cultivation of individualism. However, subjects did not submit to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Early Modern Emotions

    An Introduction

    Edited by Susan Broomhall ...
    Series series Early Modern Themes
    Early Modern Emotions is a student-friendly introduction to the concepts, approaches and sources used to study emotions in early modern Europe, and to the perspectives that analysis of the history of emotions can offer early modern studies more broadly.The volume is divided into four sections that guide students through the key processes and practices employed in current research on the history of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Late Medieval, Reformation, and Renaissance Age

    Edited by Susan Broomhall, Andrew Lynch ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    The period 1300-1600 CE was one of intense and far-reaching emotional realignments in European culture. New desires and developments in politics, religion, philosophy, the arts and literature fundamentally changed emotional attitudes to history, creating the sense of a rupture from the immediate past. In this volatile context, cultural products of all kinds offered competing objects of love, hate, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Medieval Age

    Edited by Juanita Ruys, Dr Clare Monagle ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well as to a Romanized Stoicism. Into this mix entered the new, and from 313CE imperially sanctioned, religion of Christianity. In art, literature, music, and drama, we find an increasing emphasis on the arousal of individual emotions and their ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Madness:A Brief History

    A Brief History

    by Roy Porter ...
    This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day.Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac.The origins of current debates about how we define ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Stay

    A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

    by Jennifer Michael Hecht ...
    Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Enlightenment

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Robertson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation of one set of European values to the world, many of whose peoples have quite different values. But ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Soul Machine

    The Invention of the Modern Mind

    by George Makari ...
    A brilliant and comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind.Soul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept—the mind—emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How Should We Then Live? (L'Abri 50th Anniversary Edition)

    The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

    by Francis A. Schaeffer ...
    As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. In this brilliant book he analyzed the reasons for modern society's state of affairs and presented the only viable alternative: living by the Christian ethic, acceptance of God's revelation, and total affirmation of the Bible's morals, values, and meaning. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD