La 4eme de couverture indique : "Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities-both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquir…
The Classics were core to Victorian and Edwardian public school curricula, yet texts with sexual content were regularly expurgated. This text explores the nexus between the Classics, sex, and education through the writings of schoolmaster Philip Gillespie Bainbrigge, which explo…
The Classics were core to the curriculum and ethos of the intensely homosocial Victorian and Edwardian public schools, yet ancient homosexuality and erotic pedagogy were problematic to the educational establishment, which expurgated classical texts with sexual content. This volu…
"History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is incomplete without recognition of its debt to its companions in the humane and social sciences. In Clio amo…
" Encompassing new technologies, research methods, and opportunities for collaborative scholarship and open-source peer review, as well as innovative ways of sharing knowledge and teaching, the digital humanities promises to transform the liberal arts--and perhaps the university…
The Value of the Humanities sets out the main arguments conventionally made for the value of studying the humanities: that they pursue a special kind of work (the study of culture) that is different in kind and character from the work of the social sciences and sciences ; that t…
Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic offers some essential ideas for an understanding of Roman politics during the Republican period by analysing two key concepts: libertas (liberty) and res publica (public matter, republic). Exploring these concepts through a variety …
Brill's Companion to Euripides offers 49 specially commissioned essays from leading international scholars which give critical examinations of the progress and direction of numerous wide-ranging debates about various aspects of Euripidean drama. Each chapter, as well as covering…
"In this elegantly crafted book, Rodowick offers a powerfil defense of humanistic education. These pages resound both with Rodowick's own voice and with the voice of his constant interlocutor, Hannah Arendt, as he works out, in spirited agreement with her, a philosophically rich…
The purpose of this volume is to investigate the crucial role played by the return of knowledge of Greek in the transformation of European culture, both through the translation of texts, and through the direct study of the language. It aims to collect and organize in one databas…
What is classical liberal history?