Reconciliation in Interfaith Perspective: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Voices brings together scholars from Jewish, Christian and Islamic backgrounds to discuss the concept of reconciliation from with
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
Of interest to scholars and graduate students of medieval art history, this collection of nine essays presents new approaches and interpretations to Romanesque sculpture, written by well-known scholar
Tallis argues that the rise of biologism has serious consequences and demonstrates that, by denying human uniqueness and minimizing the differences between humans and their nearest animal kin, it misr
Creative writers and scholars of literature and folklore describe the resurgence of verbal creativity that is accompanying the fall of dictators and rise of democracies in East Africa since the turn o
T.S. Eliot greatly enhanced Dante's profound influence on European literature. The essays in this volume explore Dante's importance through a focus on Eliot. Probing the questions what Eliot made of D
Robots, human hybrids and fictional monsters assembled from graveyard body parts by mad scientists have haunted literature for centuries. The frightening but alluring motif highlights a long and compl
Walker (English literature, U. of New South Wales) specializes in Locke, Milton, and the history of republican political thought. Over the past few decades, he says, most scholars have come to see the
Spanish historians explore the complex economic and social relationships in the cities of the several Medieval kingdoms on the Iberian Peninsula. One of their goals is to dispel the assumption that th
Masiola (English and translation, U. for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy) and Tomei (Ethiopian English, U. of Addis Ababa and Jamaican English, U. of the West Indies, Kingston) takes the naming of plants
This thoughtfully produced study presents analysis of daily life based on archaeological excavation at four sites in Sweden, Skinnerud, Skramle, Saxholmen, and Edsholm. A lengthy introduction presents
