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Athenian Democracy
The study of the institutions of ancient democracy has experienced a major resurgence in the last decade. With Athenian Democracy, noted political scientist Arlene W. Saxonhouse offers fresh and provocative explorations of the ancient theorists that will both clarify and stimulate discussion of t...
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Chaucer Criticism, Volume 2
An ever-growing band of dedicated Chaucer scholars works to promote fuller understnding and appreciation of the remarkable art of Geoffrey Chaucer. Professors Schoeck and Taylor, who in 1960 collaborated editorially on a critical volume on the Canterbury Tales, have joined together again in this ...
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Anatomy of Being
In a sweeping 2,400-year genealogy stretching from ancient Greece to modern neuroscience, Anatomy of Being explores Western medicine’s tendency to reduce patients to objects rather than encounter patients as whole persons.In this bold, interdisciplinary book, Kimbell Kornu offers a critical histo...
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Resolution on the Freedom of Blacks and Their Descendants
Before the abolitionist movements of the eighteenth century, a Spanish Capuchin missionary in Havana risked imprisonment to author the first antislavery treatise written in the Americas.Written in 1681 by Spanish missionary Francisco José de Jaca, Resolution on the Freedom of Blacks and Their Des...
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Voice of the Hammer
Masciandaro examines the Middle English lexicon, accounts of the history of work, and the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer to reveal that late medieval society understood work as a distinct and problematical field of experience, and that concerns over the relation of work to life were as pressing then ...
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The Calf Who Butted the Oak
The Calf Who Butted the Oak is the definitive version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s classic memoir of the grotesque fever dream that passed for “literary life” in the Soviet ’60s and ’70s.Originally appearing in English as The Oak and the Calf, the narrative begins in 1956, when Solzhenitsyn return...
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Redeeming Truth
This collection of essays by eleven noted scholars embraces a variety of philosophical and theological approaches to the topic of truth, from traditional forays to those that engage postmodernism and those that consider feminist theology.
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The Right to the City
This book contributes to the study of democratization by focusing on the dilemmas and opportunities of popular contention in the city of Buenos Aires.
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Transcendence and the Sacred
A collection of essays on the problems of comparative studies of religions and cultures. Methodology and specific religious cultures are examined.
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Precarious Democracies
Precarious Democracies argues that democratic development in Colombia and Venezuela is best understood from the perspective of political history, especially the history of institutional evolution.
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After Virtue
This classic book examines the roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in modern life, and proposes a path for its recovery.
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Barrio Boy
In his gripping autobiography, Galarza tells the story of his journey from a tiny village during the Mexican revolution to the barrios of Sacramento, offering invaluable insight to the plight of immigrants in America.
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The Dignity of Dependence
The Dignity of Dependence argues that women’s equal rights depend on advocating for women as women.The world is not ready to welcome women as women; a culture that fears dependence and asks everyone to aim for autonomy and independence will always be a society hostile to women. Women are expected...
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Exegesis and Spiritual Pedagogy in Maximus the Confessor
Maximus the Confessor (580–662) is recognized by historians of Christian thought for his contributions to philosophical theology in the Eastern Christian tradition. His second largest work, the Quaestiones ad Thalassium, is a collection of his responses to a wide variety of questions on problemat...
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Polycarp and John
A multifaceted work exploring an important and little-known text on Polycarp of Smyrna, Bishop and martyr, and his association with the apostle John.The text of the Harris Fragments on Polycarp and John raises anew exciting questions about martyrdom and apostolicity, the earliest history of the i...
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Vatican Observatory and the Arts
A book about art is not the unusual undertaking that it might seem for the Vatican Observatory. As a scientific research institute of the Church it is dedicated to research in astrophysics and cosmology. But it has also over the past decade or so ventured into areas of interdisciplinary interest....
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William Ockham: Volume 1
William Ockham is probably the most notorious and most widely misunderstood philosopher of the later Middle Ages. Accused by John Lutterell, the former chancellor of Oxford University, of teaching heretical doctrines, Ockham was summoned to Avignon by Pope John XXII and eventually lived under the...
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William Ockham: Volume 2
William Ockham is probably the most notorious and most widely misunderstood philosopher of the later Middle Ages. Accused by John Lutterell, the former chancellor of Oxford University, of teaching heretical doctrines, Ockham was summoned to Avignon by Pope John XXII and eventually lived under the...
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Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later me...
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Rousseau and Dignity
Rousseau and Dignity is a volume that combines a photography exhibit, lectures, commentary, and audience reactions by people ages seven to ninety-two, all for Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s tercentennial.
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