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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “benjamin a saltzman”
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  • Turning Away

    The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

    by Benjamin A. Saltzman ...
    Series series Thinking Literature
    A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent and inscrutable. In this incisive study, Benjamin A. Saltzman reveals how the kaleidoscopic ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Thinking of the Medieval

    Midcentury Intellectuals and the Middle Ages

    Edited by Benjamin A. Saltzman, R. D. Perry ...
    The mid-twentieth century gave rise to a rich array of new approaches to the study of the Middle Ages by both professional medievalists and those more well-known from other pursuits, many of whom continue to exert their influence over politics, art, and history today. Attending to the work of a diverse and transnational group of intellectuals – Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, W. E. B. Du Bois, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Bonds of Secrecy

    Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England

    by Benjamin A. Saltzman ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    How beliefs about human and divine secrets informed medieval ideas about the mind and shaped the practices of literary interpretationsWhat did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets of God remained unknowable to human beings. In Bonds of Secrecy, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Bonds of Secrecy

    Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England

    by Benjamin A. Saltzman ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    How beliefs about human and divine secrets informed medieval ideas about the mind and shaped the practices of literary interpretationsWhat did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets of God remained unknowable to human beings. In Bonds of Secrecy, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    by Mary Carruthers ...
    Series Book 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Enlightenment

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Robertson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation of one set of European values to the world, many of whose peoples have quite different values. But ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature

    Edited by Clare A. Lees ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of English Literature
    Informed by multicultural, multidisciplinary perspectives, The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature offers a new exploration of the earliest writing in Britain and Ireland, from the end of the Roman Empire to the mid-twelfth century. Beginning with an account of writing itself, as well as of scripts and manuscript art, subsequent chapters examine the earliest texts from England, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Historiography in the Twentieth Century

    From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge

    by Georg G. Iggers ...
    In this book, now published in 10 languages, a preeminent intellectual historian examines the profound changes in ideas about the nature of history and historiography. Georg G. Iggers traces the basic assumptions upon which historical research and writing have been based, and describes how the newly emerging social sciences transformed historiography following World War II. The discipline's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rhetoric in Classical Historiography

    Four Studies

    by A.J. Woodman ...
    This radical study argues against the view that the historian's craft has remained largely unchanged since classical times. Includes detailed discussion of the work of Thucydides, Cicero, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England

    by Emily V. Thornbury ...
    Series Book 88 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Combining historical, literary and linguistic evidence from Old English and Latin, Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England creates a new, more complete picture of who and what pre-Conquest English poets really were. It includes a study of Anglo-Saxon words for 'poet' and the first list of named poets in Anglo-Saxon England. Its survey of known poets identifies four social roles that poets often ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Catullus

    Edited by Ian Du Quesnay, Tony Woodman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Catullus is one of the most popular poets to survive from classical antiquity. Above all others he seems to speak to modern readers with a modern voice. The distinguished contributors to this Companion discuss the principal subjects which drew Catullus' affection and disgust, above all his famous affair with the woman he calls 'Lesbia', and situate him in the social, historical and intellectual ... Read more

    $31.99 USD