What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans’ views about the natural world have no pla…
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Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist, "offers a searing account--probably the best yet published--of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does."
Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist, "offers a searing account--probably the best yet published--of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does."
This text presents the presuppositions of medieval society by integrating brief selections from primary texts and photographs into a narrative of the medieval world and its foundations. It encompasses classical and biblical antecedents of medieval culture, the Early and High Mid…
This text presents the presuppositions of medieval society by integrating brief selections from primary texts and photographs into a narrative of the medieval world and its foundations. It encompasses classical and biblical antecedents of medieval culture, the Early and High Mid…
"The Georgics has for the past twenty years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro- or anti-Augustan? Should we read it as a eulogy or a bitter critique of Rome and her imperial ambitions? This book sugg…
The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies. Yet as the author argues here, the visual wo…
Met lit. opg. - Met reg. Attention is given to the role various world views have played in generating cultural policies at various times in Western history. In this context the relation of art and the state in Imperial Rome and of language and culture in the medieval world and t…
This book looks at the roles various world views have played in generating cultural policies at various times in Western history. Evan Alderson's introduction places the work within its social, political and historical framework. Robin Blaser addresses the problem of how we can …
In Aristotle¿́¿s Ever-turning World in Physics 8 Dougal Blyth analyses, passage by passage, Aristotle¿́¿s reasoning in his explanation of cosmic movement, and provides a detailed evaluation of ancient and modern commentary on this centrally influential text in the history of ancie…
Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated d…
Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated d…
Rather than focusing on the well-rehearsed facts of Columbus's achievements in the New World, Valerie Flint looks instead at his imaginative mental images, the powerful "fantasies" that gave energy to his endeavors in the Renaissance. With him on his voyages into the unknown, he…