Promethean Love
He stole fire for humanity, a timeless symbol of rebellion and selfless love. These essays trace the Promethean philosophy of love from its origins in Ancient Greece to its powerful contrast with the figure of Christ.
Table Talk
These essays explore the multifaceted role of food within medieval Italian culture. Through the writings of authors from Dante and Boccaccio to Catherine of Siena, this volume examines the medical, religious, social, and political role of foodways.
Keeping the Lid on
This book explores social segregation, urban conflict, and collective memory. From epidemics and uprisings to memories in song and novels, case studies consider cities like London, New York, and Salvador de Bahia, filling the gaps in official history.
Visualising the Unseen, Imagining the Unknown, Perfecting the Natural
Challenging the modern divide between art and science, this volume reveals their forgotten partnership. Essays explore the vital links between 18th- and 19th-century art and breakthroughs in botany, physics, and biology, questioning how each informed the other.
The Captivity Narrative
These scholarly essays assess captivity, exploring how captives expressed psychological duress and coped with bondage. Offering historical, literary, and philosophical analyses, topics range from 17th-century captivity to 21st-century prisoner narratives.
African American Religious Experiences
Facing slavery, Jim Crow, and racism, African Americans relied on religion as their source of strength. This is a story of survival, demonstrating how religion became the key ingredient and ultimate weapon that allowed a race to adapt and endure.
The Practice of Altruism
Do people with religious commitment nurture altruistic action more than others? Social scientists present results of their empirical studies on Japanese, North American, European, Indian, and Thai societies to offer insightful reflections on this issue.
From One Shore to Another
Combining literary, social, and philosophical approaches, the essays in this book explore the theme of the bridge. Each piece defines the bridge as a connection between shores, countries, languages, cultures, people, or communities.
This collection gathers international experts on Iris Murdoch to promote the dialogue between philosophy and literature. Scholars first explore her philosophical concerns and their influence, then retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking from her novels.
Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will (Volume 3
Knowledge, Mental Language, and Free Will traverses medieval metaphysics and logic, exploring Aquinas on scientific knowledge, Ockham on mental language, and the antinomy between free will and determination in an attempt to reconcile human freedom with God’s omniscience.
Political repression sparks resistance, which in turn provokes counter-resistance. This anthology explores this volatile cycle, revealing how the struggle for freedom unexpectedly forges new cultural expressions and democratic possibilities.
Liminal Spaces
Jewish Space in Central and Eastern Europe
This collection reveals the Jewish space as diverse forms of life in 19th and 20th century Eastern Europe. Scholars explore social life, leisure, and coexistence, showing how this world transformed while preserving its authenticity and individuality.
What is the link between creativity and madness? This collection of essays from psychiatrists, artists, and critics explores the question, discussing the work of artists from Robert Schumann and Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace.
This anthology explores hybridity in Spanish culture from Imperial Spain to the twenty-first century. The literary and visual texts studied blur fixed boundaries between genres, cultures, and languages. A hybrid itself, this collection points to the future.
This practical guide to English phonetics and phonology offers tips to master its sounds and prosodic features. It makes a confounding subject accessible for students, serving as a helpful introductory text for understanding the workings of English.
How can we redesign siloed systems to support families at risk? This book offers key principles for a community and government approach to child wellbeing. It explores early intervention strategies and asks what it takes to build family-friendly communities that improve lives.
This book uses personal naming to challenge the narrative of cultural change in England after the Norman Conquest. It reveals that far from a single uniform culture, there existed complex, residual, and resistant regional cultures.
Women Moving Forward
These are the deeply moving narratives of women who uprooted themselves to seek a better life. United in their quest for a self-constructed future, they persevere and prevail. These are the stories of everyday heroes, a treasure that cannot be missed.
Transnational Worlds of Power Journal
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