1010 títulos para "Penn State University Press"

Taking on Goliath

Bruhn, Kathleen

Kathleen Bruhn is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

The Bureaucratic Muse

Knapp, Ethan

Long neglected as a marginal and eccentric figure, Thomas Hoccleve (1367-1426) wrote some of the most sophisticated and challenging poetry of the late Middle Ages. Full of gossip and autobiographical detail, his work has made him immensely useful to modern scholars, yet Hoccleve the poet has remaine...

Caring for Body and Soul

Effros, Bonnie

A very thorough and up-to-date study of death and burial in early medieval society. -Guy Halsall, Birkbeck College, University of LondonThe relationship between the living and the dead was especially significant in defining community identity and spiritual belief in the early medieval world. Peter B...

The Committed Word

Engell, James

During the past century, literary education, often divorced from rhetoric, has grown increasingly distant from the practice of language in statecraft, law, religion, and ethics. Yet literature and rhetoric retain open, independent powers to enhance what Emerson calls "the conduct of life." In these...

Burden of Dreams

Wanner, Catherine

Ukraine is the largest new state to appear on the map of Europe this century. With a population of more than 50 million people and a territory larger than France, the new Ukrainian state faces many challenges, not least of which is to forge a national identity after years of Soviet rule. Burden of D...

Mysticism

Hollenback, Jess

This sweeping study of mysticism by Jess Hollenback considers the writings and experiences of a broad range of traditional religious mystics, including Teresa of Avila, Black Elk, and Gopi Krishna. It also makes use of a new category of sources that more traditional scholars have almost entirely ign...

Platonic Questions

Clay, Diskin

The dialogue has disappeared as a mode of writing philosophy, and philosophers who study Plato today often ignore the form in which Plato's work appears in favor of reconstructing and analyzing arguments thought to be conveyed by the content of the dialogues. A distinguished classicist here offers a...

Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus

Griswold, Charles L., Jr.

In this award-winning study of the Phaedrus, Charles Griswold focuses on the theme of "self-knowledge." Relying on the principle that form and content are equally important to the dialogue's meaning, Griswold shows how the concept of self-knowledge unifies the profusion of issues set forth by Plato....

Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde

DeWeese, Devin

This book is the first substantial study of Islamization in any part of Inner Asia from any perspective and the first to emphasize conversion narratives as important sources for understanding the dynamics of Islamization. Challenging the prevailing notions of the nature of Islam in Inner Asia, it ex...

Contract, Culture, and Citizenship

Button, Mark E.

The idea of the social contract has typically been seen in political theory as legitimating the exercise of governmental power and creating the moral basis for political order. Mark Button wants to draw our attention to an equally crucial, but seldom emphasized, role for the social contract: its edu...

The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465-1598

Crawford, Michael J.

In The Fight for Status and Privilege in Late Medieval and Early Modern Castile, 1465-1598, Michael Crawford investigates conflicts about and resistance to the status of hidalgo, conventionally understood as the lowest, most heavily populated rank in the Castilian nobility. It is generally accepted...

The Illusion of Civil Society

Shefner, Jon

Much has been written about how civil society challenges authoritarian governments and helps lead the way to democratization. These studies show that neoliberal economic policies have harmed many sectors of society, weakening the state and undermining clientelistic relationships that previously prov...