Author: Miri Rubin File Type: epub There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britains history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third of the population, the Peasants Revolt, the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Agincourt. The extraordinary artistic achievements - the great churches, castles and tombs that still dominate the landscape, the birth of the English language in The Canterbury Tales.For the first time in a generation, a historian has had the vision and confidence to write a spell-binding account of the era immortalised by Shakespeares history plays. THE HOLLOW CROWN brilliantly brings to life for the reader a world we have long lost - a strange, Catholic, rural country of monks, peasants, knights and merchants, almost perpetually at war - but continues to define so much of Englands national myth.**About the Author Miri Rubin is Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London. Her previous books include Corpus Christi The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture and Gentile Tales Narrative Assault on Late Medieval Jews. She is currently writing a cultural history of the Virgin Mary for Penguin.

Author: Jenny Strauss Clay File Type: pdf Hesiods Cosmos offers a comprehensive interpretation of both the Theogony and the Works and Days and demonstrates how the two Hesiodic poems must be read together as two halves of an integrated whole embracing both the divine and the human cosmos. After first offering a survey of the structure of both poems, Professor Clay reveals their mutually illuminating unity by offering detailed analyses of their respective poems, their teachings on the origins of the human race and the two versions of the Prometheus myth. She then examines the role of human beings in the Theogony and the role of the gods in the Works and Days, as well as the position of the hybrid figures of monsters and heroes within the Hesiodic cosmos and in relation to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women. Review...an excellent scholarly book abounding in insights and informed by a vast scholarship. Highly recommended. ChoiceClays valuable book should become essential reading on Hesiod and archaic Greek poetry. New England Classical JournalThis is a virtuoso performance by a scholar whose knowledge of Hesiod few can match. It is a book that first-time readers of Hesiod, including students, can profit from, while it challenges recent critical and scholaraly perspectives. Classical World, Robert Lamberton, Washington University in St. Louispassionate, well-argued, deeply researched, driven by fresh perspectives which will challenge, provoke and excite - Stephen Scully, Department of Classical Studies, Boston University Book DescriptionIn his two poems, the Theogony and the Works and Days, Hesiod, who was roughly contemporary with Homer, does not describe the deeds of the heroes but provides the earliest systematic and comprehensive account of the genesis of the Greek gods and the nature of human life that became the foundation for all later Greek literature and philosophy. Hesiods Cosmos reveals the unity of his vision by reading the two poems as complementary halves of a whole embracing the divine and human cosmos.

Author: Joseph C. Miller File Type: pdf Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the connections among Africa, the Americas, and Europe transformed world historythrough maritime exploration, commercial engagements, human migrations and settlements, political realignments and upheavals, cultural exchanges, and more. This book, the first encyclopedic reference work on Atlantic history, takes an integrated, multicontinental approach that emphasizes the dynamics of change and the perspectives and motivations of the peoples who made it happen. The entriesall specially commissioned for this volume from an international team of leading scholarssynthesize the latest scholarship on central themes, including economics, migration, politics, war, technologies and science, the physical environment, and culture. Part one features five major essays that trace the changes distinctive to each chronological phase of Atlantic history. Part two includes more than 125 entries on key topics, from the seemingly familiar viewed in unfamiliar and provocative ways (the Seven Years War, trading companies) to less conventional subjects (family networks, canon law, utopias). This is an indispensable resource for students, researchers, and scholars in a range of fields, from early American, African, Latin American, and European history to the histories of economics, religion, and science. ul lThe first encyclopedic reference on Atlantic historyl lFeatures five major essays and more than 125 alphabetical entriesl lProvides essential context on major areas of changel lEconomies (for example, the slave trade, marine resources, commodities, specie, trading companies)l lPopulations (emigrations, Native American removals, blended communities)l lPolitics and law (the law of nations, royal liberties, paramount chiefdoms, independence struggles in Haiti, the Hispanic Americas, the United States, and France)l lMilitary actions (the African and Napoleonic wars, the Seven Years War, wars of conquest)l lTechnologies and science (cartography, nautical science, geography, healing practices)l lThe physical environment (climate and weather, forest resources, agricultural production, food and diets, disease)l lCultures and communities (captivity narratives, religions and religious practices)l lIncludes original contributions from Sven Beckert, Holly Brewer, Peter A. Coclanis, Seymour Drescher, Eliga H. Gould, David S. Jones, Wim Klooster, Mark Peterson, Steven Pincus, Richard Price and Sophia Rosenfeld, and many morel lContains illustrations, maps, and bibliographiesl ul **Review One of Choices Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 The authors analytical, historiographical approaches reveal multidisciplinary themes and trends from regional perspectives . . . Highly recommended.--*Choice* Designed for scholars and advanced students, this encyclopedic is the first on Atlantic history, a historical perspective for understanding the interactions of people, events, and natural phenomena of the Atlantic Ocean region from the mid-15th century through the mid-19th century.--*Choice* Predominantly historical, interlaced with anthropology and economics, this is a very useful book that one will be able to dip into in those odd moments and come out much better informed.--Stewart Rayment, *Liberator* The other Princeton books I have reviewed recently have been superbly made and this volume is no exception. . . . For the right audience, those who have a sufficient grounding in the subject, it will earn its keep.--John George Kendall, *Reference Reviews* The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History is a helpful guide to the rich scholarship that has emerged in the field of Atlantic history and reflects the fields diversity and variety. The volume makes abundantly clear that Atlantic world historians and scholars are not simply rehashing old-style colonial histories in repackaged form. There is a lot of exciting and intellectually stimulating work being done as the field continues to evolve.--Abigail L. Swingen, *Journal of Southern History* About the Author Joseph C. Miller, T. Cary Johnson Jr. Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginias Corcoran Department of History, is a specialist in African history, Atlantic history, and the study of slavery. A past president of the American Historical Association, he is the author of The Problem of Slavery as History A Global Approach. Vincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. Jorge Canizares-Esguerra is the Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Laurent Dubois is the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University. Karen Ordahl Kupperman is the Silver Professor of History at New York University.

Author: Gary Browning File Type: epub In Why Iris Murdoch Matters Gary Browning draws on as yet unpublished archival material to present an unrivalled overview of Murdochs work and thought. Browning argues for Murdochs position amongst the key theorists of modern life, and discusses in detail her engagement with the notion of late modernity. Her multiple perspectives on art, philosophy, religion, politics and the self all relate to how she understands the nature of late modernity. Browning lucidly illustrates that through both her thought and fiction we can grasp the significance of issues that remain of paramount importance today the possibilities of a moral life without foundations, the meaning of philosophy in a post-metaphysical age, the prospects of politics without ideological certainties and the significance of art after realism. A totally original work arguing persuasively that Iris Murdoch not only matters but is absolutely central to how we think through the contemporary age. **Review An original introduction for both the student and the lay reader alike. Peter J Conradi, Professor Emeritus of English, Kingston University, UK Gary Browning places Murdoch in her age and in ours she is a profoundly historical and dialectical thinker from a very particular historical moment, whose influence and importance have only grown in recent years. He sees her in the round this is Murdoch as first, the philosopher who refused to be either analytic or continental but then also and, very vividly, the novelist, the playwright, the political thinker and the letter-writer. An exciting and much-needed book. Justin Broackes, Professor of Philosophy, Brown University, USA About the Author Gary Browning is Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University, UK where he is also Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences.