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Erica Weaver
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Ã†th…

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Risto Saarinen
Philosophical Justice and Reformation Righteousness

A study of the intellectual history of justice in Latin philosophical and theological sources between 1250 and 1550, demonstrating that Protestant views of Iustitia Dei have their roots in medieval interp…

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Daniel R Langton
Darwin in the Jewish Imagination

This book explores how Jewish thinkers engaged with Darwin's theory of evolution from the 1860s to the 1960s, offering a unique perspective on one of history's most transformative scientific ideas. Writte…

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Susanna Morton Braund
Translating Virgil

"The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellect…

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Sandor Hites
Five Economies of World Literature

Breaks new ground in the study of world literature by analysing the genesis of this concept in the context of early European political economy. Addressing readers interested in comparative literature, int…

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Peter Harrison
Some New World

What was believable in one era is no longer acceptable in another. What one culture finds utterly incredible elsewhere becomes an article of faith. This disjuncture forms the basis of Peter Harrison's mas…

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Jared Poley
Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe

"Casino gambling is central to understanding the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenthcentury Europe. Tracing the development of casino gambling across this period, this book conne…

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Dmitri Levitin
The Kingdom of Darkness

This book offers a transformative account of early modern European intellectual history, culminating in new interpretations of two of its leading minds: Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton. It charts the proces…

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Daniel Lav
Salafi Political Theology

"Salafi Islam, whose radical wing is today affiliated with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State, has a long history, and is particularly indebted to Ibn Taymiyya's (d. 1328) doctrine of tawh…

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Daniel Lav
Salafi Political Theology

"Salafi Islam, whose radical wing is today affiliated with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State, has a long history, and is particularly indebted to Ibn Taymiyya's (d. 1328) doctrine of tawh…

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Thinking of the Medieval

Revealing the profound influence of the Middle Ages on mid-twentieth-century thought and the influence of these intellectual endeavours on present-day politics, art, and history, this interdisciplinary co…

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Idriss Jebari
Leaping Decolonization

In the wake of independence from French colonialism, a generation of North African nationalist leaders and progressive thinkers reimagined their futures through essays, periodicals, and publishing network…

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The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History

Why study Ottoman history? What are the available sources? And how can researchers begin locating, reading, and interpreting these? The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History provides a broad introduction…

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The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History

Why study Ottoman history? What are the available sources? And how can researchers begin locating, reading, and interpreting these? The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History provides a broad introduction…

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Richard N Langlois
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation…

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Helena Jaskov
Negotiating States of Mind

Negotiating States of Mind examines melancholia's demise as a scientific concept, tracing the conceptual changes that transformed psychiatric thinking in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on Meiji Jap…

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Tsimtsum and Modernity

This volume is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the Lurianic concept of tsimtsum. It contains eighteen studies in philosophy, theology, and intellectual history, which demonstrate the histor…

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José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

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José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

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Daniel Nolan
Zoroastrianism and Contemporary Philosophy

Zoroastrianism is a religion with a long history, but it has been comparatively neglected by contemporary philosophers. This Element aims to bring aspects of its long intellectual history into conversatio…

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