Apocalypse Against Empire: Theologies of Resistance in Early Judaism
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The year 167 B.C.E. marked the beginning of a period of intense persecution for the people of Judea,...

Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God
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What does it mean for Jesus to be "deified" in early Christian literature? Although the divinity of...

Mad Tuscans and Their Families: A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy
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Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W. Mellyn...
One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television
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Elvis Presley's television debut in January 1956 is often cited as the moment when popular music and...

Print Culture in Early Modern France: Abraham Bosse and the Purposes of Print
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In this book, Carl Goldstein examines the print culture of seventeenth-century France through a...

Coping with Obscurity: The Brown Workshop on Earlier Egyptian Grammar
James P. Allen, Mark A. Collier and Andreas Stauber
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Coping with Obscurity publishes the papers discussed at the Brown University Workshop on Earlier...
Beyond Spain's Borders: Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters
Maria Cristina Quintero and Anne J. Cruz
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The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates...

If I Lose Mine Honor, I Lose Myself: Honour Among the Early Modern English Elite
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Moving beyond the preoccupation of honour and its associations with violence and sexual reputation,...