"In this zoological guidebook to cuckoldry and commerce, Charles Fourier (1772-1837) offers a caustic critique of the bankruptcy of marriage and the prostitution of the economy, and the hypocrisies of a civilization that over regulates sexual congress while allowing the financia…
"The willingness to betray one's country, one's people, one's family--to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another--is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, im…
"The willingness to betray one's country, one's people, one's family--to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another--is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, im…
Introduction: The shameful business of betrayal and treason / Larissa Tracy -- Wiglaf's sword : the coming of the state / Frank Battaglia -- In sickness and in health : the Boethian narrative of the two Geralds of Brecon / Sarah J. Sprouse -- Treasonous and dishonorable conduct …
The willingness to betray one's country, one's people, one's family--to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another--is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, imp…
"The willingness to betray one's country, one's people, one's family--to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another--is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, im…
"The willingness to betray one's country, one's people, one's family--to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another--is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, im…
The sotah ordeal from Numbers 5:11-31 takes on a different tone when the Rabbis describe it in the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and Tosefta. The Rabbis are working with a different set of assumptions than those of the biblical sotah ordeal, and their views do not align neatly w…
The publication in 1857 of Madame Bovary, with its vivid depictions of sex and adultery, incited a backlash of immorality charges. The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife bored and unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood. She embarks upon a series of affairs in …
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The publication in 1857 of Madame Bovary, with its vivid depictions of sex and adultery, incited a backlash of immorality charges. The novel tells the story of Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife bored and unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood. She embarks upon a series of affairs in …