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X12/04/2014
The Fall 2014 Author Q&As return today with Naoíse Mac Sweeney, editor of Foundation Myths in Ancient Societies, which looks at the many different ways that origin stories were told… READ MORE
12/02/2014
We here at Penn Press hope your just completed holiday was as diverse and bountiful as these newly released titles! Jump to: American History | Anthropology | Economics | Nineteenth… READ MORE
11/04/2014
Yes, it's technically November, but that's just because there were so many new releases last month we couldn't fit in time to post about it! If you'd like to receive… READ MORE
10/28/2014
Francesca Sawaya is author of The Difficult Art of Giving: Patronage, Philanthropy, and the American Literary Market, which rethinks standard economic histories of the literary marketplace. Traditionally, American literary histories maintain that… READ MORE
10/23/2014
Elisheva Baumgarten is the author of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance, which provides a social history of religious practice in context, particularly with regard… READ MORE
10/21/2014
Today's author Q&A is with the editors of The Neoplatonic Socrates, Danielle A. Layne and Harold Tarrant. Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that… READ MORE
10/16/2014
Today's Q&A is with E. N. Anderson, author of Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China. In it, Anderson provides an account of the development of the food systems… READ MORE
10/14/2014
Today we have a guest post from Lindsay O'Neill, author of The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World. In it, O'Neill explores the importance and impact of… READ MORE
10/09/2014
Today's Q&A is with the poet Len Krisak, who has translated the classical poet Ovid's erotic poems Amores and Ars amatoria for new volume titled Ovid's Erotic Poems. Krisak captures… READ MORE
10/07/2014
Today we have a guest post from Constance Brittain Bouchard, author of Rewriting Saints and Ancestors: Memory and Forgetting in France, 500-1200. Thinkers in medieval France constantly reconceptualized what had… READ MORE
