Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the...
Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed. Many...
Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists. They lived along riverbanks, near lakes, or close to the ocean. In those waterways,...
A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France
Raisa Adah Rexer
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780812252866
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form—artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between—were produced in France, the birthplace of photography....
Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa
Brenton Sullivan
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9780812252675
Pub Date: December 2020
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
The vast majority of monasteries in Tibet and nearly all of the monasteries in Mongolia belong to the Geluk school of Tibetan Buddhism, best known through its symbolic head, the Dalai Lama. Historically,...
The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism
Adrienne Williams Boyarin
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9780812252590
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
In the Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, Trinity Term 1277, Adrienne Williams Boyarin finds the case of one Sampson son of Samuel, a Jew of Northampton, arrested for impersonating a Franciscan...
Hunting, Kingship, and Masculinity in Early Medieval Europe
Eric J. Goldberg
Price: $89.95
ISBN: 9780812252354
Pub Date: October 2020
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Eric J. Goldberg traces the long history of early medieval hunting from the late Roman Empire to the death of the last Carolingian king, Louis V, in a hunting accident in 987. He focuses chiefly on...
The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history still...
In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people's minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister's painted wooden panels greeted parishioners with...
Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany
Debra Kaplan
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252392
Pub Date: August 2020
Format: Hardcover
288 Pages
A pregnant mother, a teacher who had fallen ill, a thirty-year-old homeless thief, refugees from war-torn communities, orphans, widows, the mentally disabled and domestic servants. What this diverse...
