Do we really have freedom to act, or are we slaves to our genes, environment or culture? Regular TPM columnist Mathew Iredale gets to grips with one of the most intractable issues in philosophy: the p
Do we really have freedom to act, or are we slaves to our genes, environment or culture? Regular TPM columnist Mathew Iredale gets to grips with one of the most intractable issues in philosophy: the p
The Christian myth is entangled with American politics, with the nation's image of its own manifest destiny. The book argues that America must find an image of itself which more truly reflects its rea
In this third volume deriving from the excavations of the Viking town of Kaupang of 2000-2003, a range of artefacts is presented along with a discussion of the town's inhabitants: their origins, activ
"Pyper enlists his Danish Socrates to come to grips with some of life's most perplexing problems. For example, the world is a buffet of pain and, suffering. How then can God command us to rejoice? Or
The medieval fascination with the mysterious language of Dionysius the Areopagite is nowhere more evident than in the thirteenth-century textbook edition of his treatise on liturgical rites. Dionysius
Adorno warns of the catastrophe that may result if we continue to treat nature as an object that exists exclusively for our own benefit. A comparison of Adorno's concerns with those of key ecological
Jean-Paul Sartre: Mind and Body, Word and Deed celebrates Sartre's polyvalence with an examination of Sartrean philosophy, literature, and politics. In four distinct yet related sections, twelve schol
A January 2007 symposium in Los Angeles was held in conjunction with an exhibition of Christian icons and manuscripts from Sinai. The 19 papers published here cover the place, liturgy, manuscript, ico
The papers presented here were first delivered at a conference held at the University of Bergen, Norway, in 2007. Rankovic, along with other contributors base their interpretations on the "oral-litera
How can challenger candidates win elections against incumbents? The present book answers this question by comparing four successful challenger candidates with four unsuccessful ones. The analysis incl
Albert of Saxony was one of the great logicians of the Middle Ages, on a par with William Ockham and John Buridan. The Twenty-Five Disputed Questions on Logic treat of central issues in logic, both th
Carling (linguistics, Lund U., Sweden), collaborating with Werner Winter and Georges-Jean Pinault, has compiled a dictionary of Tocharian A, an Indo-European language of Central Asia. This impressivel
A political science research project at Aarhus University in Denmark produced papers on the current workings of the polity in 15 countries, emphasizing differences with other countries in the region,
This collection of essays provides a satisfyingly full resource on a wide range of aspects of the centuries of Ottoman rule in Cyprus (from 1571-1878), with essays on decorative arts and crafts, liter
Well-illustrated with b&w plates, this volume offers 18 essays on the iconography of profane subjects carved on misericords (choir stalls) or presented in prints in medieval Europe. The papers wer
All literature is written with the intent of imparting understanding. However, some are more openly didactic, from books of manners to travel guides to how rulers should conduct themselves. Ruys (Cent
Harrison (music and music education, Griffith University AU) begins by telling his own story of growing up with music. Like many boys, he was teased and bullied for not being good at sports and for en
Written as an extension to Limberger's PhD thesis (2002, U. of Antwerp), this title is also a part of a larger project titled "City and Society in the Low Countries, 1200-1800," with participants incl
This title provides an overview of Central Europe from ca. 6000 BCE to the first millennium BCE, with a focus on boom periods of innovation, cross-cultural interaction and technological advances such
Until the 1970s, medieval manuscripts were studied for literary or artistic content alone with little interest shown in the circumstances under which they were made. Recently scholars have started loo
The subject of this volume is Francis Turretin's federal theology as a defense of the doctrine of grace. Specifically, it deals with Turretin's exposition of the twofold covenant of God, that is the c
The subject of this book is the understanding of the gospel in the theology of the Protestant Reformer John Calvin. Specifically, it deals with what Calvin terms the "twofold grace of God", the justif
Established in 1968, the American Center of Oriental Research has worked together with the Department of Antiquities of Jordan to support North American archaeologists working in Jordan. Together with
Gonzaga (1513-66) was renowned by contemporaries for her beauty and chaste widowhood, but after her death, a cache of letters showed that she had maintained a long and intimate relationship with a man
Old English poetry is considerably more playful than is often acknowledged, says Niles, who is not further identified, and interpreting it may comprise a game in which riddling authors match wits with
This collection addresses an audience of early medievalists with an interest in material culture and its use in building ethnic boundaries. The traditional concept of frontier is one of current debate
This book is written for a wide range of interested readers, including students, pastors, church workers and others interested in learning about Paul as a person and his work. The author deals with Pa
When Arnal (religious studies, U. of Regina, Saskatchewan) was invited to write a short paper for a 2003 symposium at the University of Toronto, he ended up with 129 pages, enough for a slim book, whi
Of the areas in Anatolia that have attested intensive Neolithic occupation, the western region is the least understood, with systematic investigations barely two decades old. Information concerning th
Found in Denmark in 1952, the man had lain in a bog with his throat slit for almost 2,000 years. The body's remarkable state of preservation prompted prolonged and intense research, as reflected in th
Wright coined sociophilology to describe an approach to the linguistic study of texts that combines traditional philological analysis with insights of modern sociolinguistics. He collects, and in most
In the new introduction to the award-winning 1999 edition, a Canadian scholar notes that while research on underemployment has increased since then, preoccupation with statistics still emphasizes limi
Global ethics focuses on the most pressing contemporary ethical issues - poverty, global trade, terrorism, torture, pollution, climate change and the management of scarce recourses. It draws on moral
This volume contains 14 essays, some based on presentations from “The Black and Blue Danube Symposium,” held at Colgate U. in New York in March 2013, that use the Danube River as a means to explore th
This book takes the reader through Dr. Wlodzimierz Szer’s childhood in Yiddish prewar Warsaw, adolescence and imprisonment in wartime Russia, to the brutal reality of immediate postwar Poland, and the
Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra’s commentary is one of the great biblical exegeses produced by medieval Jewry. His commentary accompanies almost every version of the Rabbinic Bible, and his influence on biblic
Dostoevsky attached introductions to his most challenging narratives, including Notes from the House of the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Devils, The Brothers Karamazov, and “A Gentle Creature.” D
"A translation and commentary on selected songs attributed to the satirical Middle High German poet Neidhart from the thirteenth-century Riedegg manuscript"--
Conflict and change are fundamental elements of social reality and of the Jewish historical experience. This collection presents the work of a distinguished group of scholars exploring the themes of s
