"Gender has now become a pervasive topic in the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite its familiarity within universities and colleges, some have argued that the radical debates which first...

How do specific secular and religious ideologies--such as nationalism, neoliberalism, atheism, Pentecostalism, Tablighi Islam, and shamanism--gain popularity and when do they lose traction? To answer...

Hickey, Dave, Park, Kyong, Miller, John, Bunschoten, Raoul, Olalquiaga, Celeste, Allen, Stan

Der Göttinger Historiker Werner Rösener rückt mit seinem Buch das einseitige Bild vom adeligen Charakter des Mittelalters zurecht. Es geht um mittelalterliche Kleidungsformen, Grundformen der...

The first and still one of the best critiques of post-1960s cultural radicalism, analyzing why and how the defenders of literature have gone wrong. A wonderfully trenchant and illuminating inquiry...

Ernst Bloch is perhaps best known for his subtle and imaginative investigation of utopias and utopianism, but his work also provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of western culture,...

Eleven original chapters on recent archaeological work in Southern Italy and Sicily by 14 Italian authors, all translated into English.

What activities did the women of ancient Greece perform in the sphere of ritual, and what were the meanings of such activities for them and their culture? By offering answers to these questions, this...

Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes...

The common man in the Roman street is beginning at last to attract the attention he deserves from specialists;his active, noisy role in the politics of the late Republic has been restored to him and...

A satirist and social commentator looks into the soul of the 1990s in a collection of essays that takes a sharp look at both conservative and libera viewpoints.

PT. 1; PERCEIVING WOMEN. PT. 2; WOMEN AND POWER; PT 3. WOMEN AT HOME; PT 4; THE BIOLOGY OF WOMEN; PT 5. CELTIC WOMEN IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES. INFANTICIDE; JEWISH WOMEN; EARLY SYRIAN CHRISTIANITY; ON...

Entre 1967 y 1997, George Steiner escribió para The New Yorker más de 150 artículos y reseñas sobre gran variedad de asuntos, haciendo que ideas difíciles y temas poco familiares resultaran...

It's not always that a luscious writer can be a luscious reader of her own work. This must be the voice she hears in her head when she writes her magical prose."-Julia Alvarez, author of How the...

How did Roman imperial culture shape the environment in which Paul carried out his apostolate? How do the multiple legacies of modern colonialism and contemporary empire shape, illuminate, or obscure...

In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our...