"Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferenc…
"This book is a product of not just my own work and research, but also of all the kindness, support, and encouragement I received for over eight years since I first embarked on this task. Professor Bruce Gordon from Yale Divinity School deserves both the credit and the blame for…
"In Venice in the last months of 1556, Jesuit priest Cesare Helmi faced a quandary about a grave matter: should he absolve a potentially dangerous heretic in the secret sacrament of confession? That week, a man had confessed to Helmi that he had 'erred in many matters' fundament…
In Between Popes, Inquisitors and Princes Jessica Dalton uses extensive, original archival research to provide the first history of a unique and controversial papal privilege that allowed the first Jesuits to absolve heretics in sixteenth-century Italy without involving bishops …
"The admonition of the John Howe to the Earl of Kildare is a fitting epigram to a book on the life and writings of Giles Firmin (1613/14-1697). The thrust of Firmin's entire corpus of work was to construct forms of visible unity between the factions of the godly"
In Giles Firmin and the Transatlantic Puritan Tradition , Jonathan Warren Pagán offers an intellectual biography of Giles Firmin (1613/14-1697), who lived in both Old and New England and lived through many of the transitions of international puritanism in the seventeenth century…
In The Excommunication of Elizabeth I, Aislinn Muller examines the excommunication and deposition of Queen Elizabeth I of England by the Roman Catholic Church, and its political afterlife during her reign. Muller shows that Elizabeth's excommunication was a crucial turning point…
"We first conceived of this study of the Lyon Terence in March 2016 when GTH, then a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Villa i Tatti research institute, proposed a jointly written, comprehensive monograph on it; as is argued in the introduction, despite the significance of…
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Additional Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Fourth Monarchy and the Translatio Imperii -- Johann Carion of Bietigheim: The Berlin Court Astronomer -- Carion's Chronicle: …
Over 8,200 large city fires broke out between 1000 and 1939 CE in Central Europe. Prometheus Tamed inquires into the long-term history of that fire ecology, its local and regional frequencies, its relationship to climate history. It asks for the visual and narrative representati…