1117 títulos para "University Of Pennsylvania Press"

Theory of Garden Art

Hirschfeld, C. C. L.

C.C.L. Hirschfeld was perhaps the most important writer on gardens and landscape in eighteenth-century Germany. Acclaimed as the "father of landscape garden art," he was influential not just in Germany but also in France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Russia. Popular wi...

God's Peace and King's Peace

O'Brien, Bruce R.

Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws that had been in force under the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), cousin of William the Conqueror. The laws were said to have been sp...

Invested with Meaning

Miller, Shannon

In the closing decades of the sixteenth century, England attempted its first colonial expansion into the New World through planned settlements in Ireland, Newfoundland, Virginia, and Guiana. All of these colonial efforts were unsuccessful. Yet these projects were a significant cultural force in earl...

To Read My Heart

Van Dyke, Rachel

"The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke," a compelling primary document previously unpublished, offers insights into the life and mind of a seventeen-year-old young woman, while also providing a fascinating window into the cultural and social landscape of the early national period. Rachel was a thoughtful,...

The Romance of Adultery

McCracken, Peggy / McCraken, Peggy

The Romance of Adultery Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature Peggy McCracken "An original and invaluable contribution to our understanding of gender/power relations in the Middle Ages, medieval apprehensions and expectations of powerful women, and the ways in which presumably...

Culture and Adultery

Leckie, Barbara

Adultery, it is often assumed, was not a major concern of English culture during the Victorian age, and the apparent absence of adultery--indeed, of all explicit representations of sexuality--in turn made censorship for obscene libel unnecessary. Very few writers, conventional wisdom has it, were bo...

Latinity and Literary Society at Rome

Bloomer, W. Martin

For centuries after the fall of the Roman empire, the ability to write and speak pure Latin was the mark of the true scholar. But although such skill was esteemed in medieval times, the language of ancient Rome was as various as the styles of slaves and masters. Latinity and Literary Society at Rom...

Positioning Pensions for the Twenty-First Century

As the United States comes to terms with the pending insolvency of social security, workers are increasingly pinning their hopes for retirement adequacy on employer-sponsored plans. Positioning Pensions for the Twenty-First Century analyzes the role of pensions in retirement security, examining how...

Closet Stages

Burroughs, Catherine B.

Closet Stages examines theater theory produced by middle- and upper-class British women-playwrights, actresses, and spectators-between 1790 and 1840. Shifting the focus away from the Romantic male writers to the journals, letters, and play prefaces in which women framed their relationship to the the...

Clovis Revisited

Boldurian, Anthony T. / Cotter, John L.

Clovis Revisited New Perspectives on Paleoindian Adaptations from Blackwater Draw, New Mexico Anthony T. Boldurian and John L. Cotter Explore the early days of Paleoindian archaeology in this engaging retrospective of Edgar B. Howard's Southwest Early Man Project, 1929-1937, cosponsored by the Univ...

The Nippur Lament

Tinney, Steve

The Engineering Project

Moriarty, Gene