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P E Easterling

Studies in Greek Literature: Volume 2, Early Greek Literature, Reception, Ancient and Modern Scholarship

Pat Easterling's articles are fundamental to her status as one of the most influential Hellenists of her generation. Characterised by unostentatious astuteness and an arresting capacity for observation, t…

Elaine M Fisher

The Meeting of Rivers

The Meeting of Rivers reconstructs the prehistory of India's newest religion, Virasaivism (or Lingayatism) from its own voices, drawing on unstudied and unpublished archival sources in several south India…

Fumiko Joo

Peony Lantern Tales

""The Story of the Peony Lantern" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347-1433) travelled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, set in …

Hilaire Kallendorf

Perilous Passions

Perilous Passions explores the ethical implications of emotion in Spanish Golden Age theatre.

Sneaker Pimps

Becoming X

Giulio Pertile

Hexameral Poetics

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Don Friedman (1935-2016)

A Day In The City / Circle Waltz

Product Information After an early period as a sideman in Los Angeles, in early 1960 Don Friedman moved to NYC, where he soon revealed himself as a pianist of extraordinary originality, and a thoroughly…

Richard Barnfield's Poetics

Richard Barnfield is sometimes considered the rival poet in Shakespeare's sonnets but has been relatively neglected in studies of early modern English poetry.This edited collection situates Barnfield's po…

Debra Kaplan, Elisheva Carlebach

A Woman Is Responsible for Everything

A groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal lifeIn small villages, bustling cities, and crowded ghettos across early modern Europe, Jewish women were increasingly a…

Giulio Pertile

Hexameral Poetics

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Irina Sirotkina

Dancing Freedom

For a long time, dance scholars and the public were hardly aware that modern dance existed in Russia. This book, however, delves into its presence, significance and survival in the late Tsarist and Soviet…

Andrew Schonebaum

Observing the Unseen

Explores the relationship between fantastical literature and scientific inquiry What did early modern Chinese readers believe about dragons, thunder, or fate, and where did they learn it? Observing the Un…

Andrew Schonebaum

Observing the Unseen

Explores the relationship between fantastical literature and scientific inquiry What did early modern Chinese readers believe about dragons, thunder, or fate, and where did they learn it? Observing the Un…

Catherine Deutsch

Maddalena Casulana

Sixteenth-century Italian composer Maddalena Casulana was the first woman to publish music under her own name, but her legacy has long been overlooked. This book explores her life, work and times, and off…

Erin Griffey

Facing Decay

"Examines how early modern women sought to preserve youth and combat signs of aging through therapeutic cosmetics. Explores beauty practices as sites of medical knowledge, scientific innovation, and …

The Distillers

The Distillers (20th Anniversary) (remastered) (Limited Edition) (Violet Swirl Vinyl) (US Edit.)

Product Information To call The Distillers simply a punk band doesn't do justice to either the band or the word "punk". Guitarist, lyricist, and vocalist Brody Dalle uses her medium as a platform for a h…

François Soyer

The 'Catalan Hermaphrodite' and the Inquisition

This book examines the life of Maria Duran, who was born with female genitalia, but was accused of being a man and subsequently put on trial for sorcery by the Portuguese Inquisition during the 18th centu…

Jenny C Mann

The Trials of Orpheus

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled…

Indira Ghose

A Defence of Pretence

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civilityIs civility merely a matter of reinforcing status and excluding others? Or is it a lubricant in a polarised world, enabling us …