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In the early 13th century the diocese of Liege witnessed a religious revival, known to us largely through the abundant corpus of saints' lives from that region. In this volume Martinus Cawley has translated a trilogy of Cistercian lives composed by the same hagiographer, Goswin, who was a monk and cantor at the abbey of Villers in Brabant.

Reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. This book argues that mimesis, rather than disappearing, instead became a far more pervasive idea in the eighteenth century by becoming submerged within the dynamics of the emerging accounts of judgement and taste.

Contributions here concentrate less on the details of how European and Indian Pennsylvanians negotiated and fought than on how people constructed and reconstructed their cultures in dialogue with others. Taken together, the essays trace the collapse of whatever potential may have existed for a Pennsylvania shared by Indians and Europeans.

When theorists explain how democracies conduct foreign policy, they tend to ignore or downplay differences and assume that all behave similarly. Challenging this assumption, this text argues that differences in their structural autonomy have a lot to do with how foreign security policies are chosen and international negotiations are carried out.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was a unique colonial town. It was the first permanent outpost of the Moravians in North America and served as the headquarters for their extensive missionary efforts. It was also one of the most successful communal societies in American history. Here, Craig D. Atwood offers a portrait of Bethlehem and its religion.

This volume explores the complex historical emergence of religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition, arguing that contemporary liberal theorists have misunderstood and misconstrued the historical development of toleration in theory and practice.

This work shows how a historiographically sensitive rereading of contemporaneous documents about the 16th-century Spanish conquest and evangelization of Michoacan can challenge traditional celebratory interpretations of missionary activity in early colonial Mexico.

What did the American Revolution mean to the ordinary soldiers who fought in it? In this work, we get a glimpse into the world of the American Revolution and see how the common experience of war drew soldiers together as they began the long process of forging an identity for a fledgling nation.

This title returns the 14th-century poem "Piers Plowman" to late medieval English culture by treating it as a public rather than a personal or elite work. Divided into two parts, the first is an extended essay on "Piers" scholarship and the second part offers an alternative history of the poem.

This study of Poland focuses on the turbulent half century from the outbreak of World War II in 1939, which started the chain of events that would lead to the communist takeover of Poland, to 1989, when futile attempts to reform the communist system gave way to its total transformatiion.

The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. This work covers the representation of militant Christian imperialism in early modern Spanish literature.

Published in 1554, "Lazarillo de Tormes" shocked art and society during the Renaissance. Giancarlo Maiorino treats this picaresque narrative as a prism for exploring "econopoetics", a term he uses to foreground the ways in which literary and economic modes of production feed off one another.

This book is designed specifically to provide an objective evaluation of Guevara's record as a guerrilla soldier, commander, and strategist from his first skirmish in Cuba to his defeat in Bolivia eleven years later.

The 20th century was one of profound transformation in rural America, when demographic shifts and economic restructuring dramatically altered the lives of rural people and their communities. This work defines these changes and interprets their implications for the future of rural America.

This collection of essays illustrate how deep concern about money in American politics runs - and how the definition of the problem has changed over time. Chapters cover episodes from the early 19th century through the 1970s.

From its first publication in 1960, this novel sparked a debate about the extent to which its story of a belated return to childhood scenes mirrored key events of Richter's own life. John Donner, the lead character, traces a similar path to Richter, from west to east and to his childhood home.

Wayne Bodle questions the traditional account of the legendary Valley Forge winter of 1777-78. Instead of Washington's army enduring the winter in a desolate wilderness, far removed from society, Bodle maintains that the army was stationed in a settled area and had sufficient provisions.

This volume offers perspectives on the Pennsylvania or the Keystone State as it has been nicknamed from scholars who view the history of this Commonwealth critically and honestly, giving a modern account of Pennsylvania's past.

Here, Marcus advances the provocative claim that the tradition in democratic theory of treating emotion and reason as hostile opposites is misguided. He argues that sentimental citizens are the only citizens really capable of exercising political judgement.

The essays in this volume, representing a wide range of feminist interpretations of Rousseau, explore the many tensions in his thought that arise from his unique combination of radical and traditional perspectives on gender relations and the state.

The essays in this volume, representing a wide range of feminist interpretations of Rousseau, explore the many tensions in his thought that arise from his unique combination of radical and traditional perspectives on gender relations and the state.

"Net Loss" is Nathan Newman's effort to understand why technological innovation and growth have been accompanied by increasing economic inequality and a sense of political powerlessness among large sectors of the population.

An exploration of such universal terms as "people", "man" or "human" in early modern England, from the Civil War through the Enlightenment. Such language falsely implies inclusion of both men and women when actually it excludes women.

There has long been debate among scholars of ancient philosophy about how the "Socratic Method" should be defined, or indeed, whether Socrates can be said to have used any single uniform method distinctive to his way of philosophizing. These essays examine this controversial view.

This text aims to help students understand America's history of miscegenation and the role the "one-drop rule" has played in it. The author examines challenges to the one-drop rule, including the multiracial identity movement and the census classification of racial groups.

Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. Challenging the dominance of this model, this text looks at Latin America's much different experience as more relevant to politics today in regions as varied as the Balkans and Africa.

This collection evaluates John Dewey's pragmatism from a feminist perspective. The variety of interpretations offered ranges from Jane Addams' praise for his collegial efforts to resolve the problems of the inner city to contemporary comparisons of his approach with Addams' critique of capitalism.

The 14 essays included in this collection clearly illustrate the ways in which feminist readings can deepen understanding of Heidegger's philosophy. They illuminate both the richness and the limitations of the resources Heidegger's work can provide for feminist thought.

The 14 essays included in this collection clearly illustrate the ways in which feminist readings can deepen understanding of Heidegger's philosophy. They illuminate both the richness and the limitations of the resources Heidegger's work can provide for feminist thought.