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John Milton Among the Neapolitans

Mansus–Contexts, Texts, Intertexts, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol . 112, Part 4)

Estelle Haan

Price: $40.00

ISBN: 9781606181300

Pub Date: January 2023

Format: Paperback

274 Pages

In the first book devoted solely to Mansus, arguably the most accomplished of Milton’s neo-Latin writings pertaining to his Italian period, Estelle Haan offers a series of fresh interpretations of the poem, mapping the literary import of Naples on Milton during the time of his sojourn and beyond.

Beth Shean Studies

Aspects of Religion, History, Art, and Archaeology in Hellenistic and Roman Nysa-Scythopolis, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 112, Part 2)

Edited by Irene Bald Romano and Kyle W. Mahoney

With Dimitris Tambakopoulo and Yannis Maniatis

Price: $65.00

ISBN: 9781606181249

Pub Date: January 2023

Format: Paperback

276 Pages

In Beth Shean Studies, Irene Bald Romano and Kyle W. Mahoney focus their analysis on neglected archaeological artifacts: a Hellenistic inscribed stele fragment and a Roman marble portrait of Alexander the Great excavated at the site of Beth Shean (Israel), ancient Nysa-Scythopolis.

Beginnings of Shi’i Studies in Germany

Rudolf Strothmann and His Correspondence with Carl Heinrich Becker, Ignaz Goldziher, Eugeneo Griffini, and Cornelis van Arendonk, 1910 through 1926, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 112, Part 1)

Sabine Schmidtke

Price: $90.00

ISBN: 9781606181218

Pub Date: January 2023

Format: Paperback

480 Pages

Rudolf Strothmann (1877–1960) played a pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shīʿī Islam in Western, especially German, scholarship. Sabine Schmidtke examines Strothmann’s published and personal writings and explores his development as a theologian and a scholar of Semitic languages and Islamic culture.

Evidence

The Use and Misuse of Data, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 112, Part 3)

Edited by Robert M. Hauser and Adrianna Link

Price: $35.00

ISBN: 9781606181232

Pub Date: January 2023

Format: Paperback

254 Pages

This volume brings together essays from scholars representing a host of disciplines from statistics through psychology and anthropology to examine the question of evidence and what it means, ultimately arguing that human judgment is essential in interpreting and evaluating evidence.