Dante, Columbus and the Prophetic Tradition: Spiritual Imperialism in the Italian Imagination
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Exploring the diverse factors that persuaded Christopher Columbus that he could reach the fabled...
Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils
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Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils offers a major theoretical statement of where poetic...
Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems
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Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his...
Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography
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'For a lot of years, I've answered a lot of questions, but have never told my story before.' Across...
Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
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Toward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing...
A Historian in Exile: Solomon ibn Verga, Shevet Yehudah, and the Jewish-Christian Encounter
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Solomon ibn Verga was one of the victims of the decrees expelling the Jews from Spain and Portugal...
The Queen of Harlem
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An African American Breakfast at Tiffany's-a hip, refreshingly candid tale of identity and...
In the Company of the Courtesan
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My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the...
Homo Ludens
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In Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. He...