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Yudisher Theriak
An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism
An annotated translation of the Yudisher Theriak, along with a comprehensive introduction that places the original work in its historical context.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814342480
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342497
Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts
Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions
Investigates the religious diversity in early modern English literature and culture in relation to a dominant English Protestant national identity.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814339558
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814339565
Anthonius Margaritha and the Jewish Faith
Jewish Life and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Germany
A biography of Anthonius Margaritha, convert to Christianity and reporter on Jewish life and religious practices.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814338001
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814338018
The En Yaaqov
Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus
Examines the origins of the En Yaaqov in the tumultuous medieval period and the motivations of its creator, exiled Spanish rabbi Jacob ibn Habib.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814334805
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814335963
Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics
Jewish Authority, Dissent, and Heresy in Medieval and Early Modern Times
Examines dissent from rabbinic Judaism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period to consider it as a category within the history and culture of the Jewish people.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814332375
John Donne and the Protestant Reformation
New Perspectives
This collection of thirteen essays by an international group of scholars focuses on the impact of the Protestant Reformation on Donne’s life, theology, poetry, and prose.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814330128
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337592
Pregnant Fictions
Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early Modern France
Pregnant Fictions explores the complex role of pregnancy in early-modern tale-telling and considers how stories of childbirth were used to rethink gendered "truths" at a key moment in the history of ideas.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814330425
Royal Subjects
Essays on the Writings of James VI and I
Sixteen leading scholars explore the richness of King James’s work from a variety of perspectives, and in so doing seek to establish monarchic writing as an important genre in its own right.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814328774
Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe
Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe is a major contribution in understanding the cultural processes involved in the emergence and development of the consumer phase of science.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814329313
Lies Like Truth
Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural Moment
By demonstrating fundamental connections between audience reaction then and the use of computers today, Renaissance scholar Arthur Kinney explores the cultural moment of one of Shakespeare's most popular tragedies.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814329658
Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Called the "Quintessence of the Baroque" and "Bridge to the Enlightenment," Mexican writer and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz has also been celebrated as the "First Feminist of the New World." Feminist Perspectives on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz fills a gap
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814322161
Jerusalem Delivered
An English Prose Version
Ralph Nash, in his approach to Gerusalemme Liberata, concluded that a close, fluent translation in prose of Tasso's epic would offer the most successful rendering of this important chivalric romance.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814318300
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337561