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  • Arbitrary Rule

    Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death

    by Mary Nyquist ...
    Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? In Arbitrary Rule, Mary Nyquist explores connections between political and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Re-membering Milton

    Essays on the Texts and Traditions

    Edited by Mary Nyquist, Margaret W. Ferguson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Milton
    First published in 1987. Passionately praised and equally passionately criticised by contemporary and later writers, the figure of Milton inherited by the twentieth century is by no means unified, despite the appearance of monumental unity his work sometimes acquires in the classroom and in academic criticism.This collection of essays gathers together disparate and often conflicting ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • The Book of the City of Ladies

    by Christine Pizan, Rosalind Brown-Grant ...
    Translated by Rosalind Brown-Grant ...
    Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues - Reason, Rectitude and Justice - appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which ... Read more

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  • Louis D. Brandeis

    A Life

    by Melvin I. Urofsky ...
    The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.A huge and galvanizing biography, a revelation of one man’s effect on American society and jurisprudence, and the electrifying ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story

    Statesman of the Old Republic

    by R. Kent Newmyer ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1845. His attitudes and goals as lawyer, politician, judge, and legal educator were founded on the republican values generated by the American Revolution. Story’s greatest objective was to fashion a national ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati

    The Reprehension of Vice

    by Fabian Alfie ...
    ‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged ... Read more

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  • The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr

    Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation

    by R. Kent Newmyer ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution
    The Burr treason trial, one of the greatest criminal trials in American history, was significant for several reasons. The legal proceedings lasted seven months and featured some of the nation's best lawyers. It also pitted President Thomas Jefferson (who declared Burr guilty without the benefit of a trial and who masterminded the prosecution), Chief Justice John Marshall (who sat as a trial judge ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • A Passion for Justice

    How 'Vinegar Jim' McRuer Became Canada's Greatest Law Reformer

    by J. Patrick Boyer ...
    This richly detailed biography illustrates how a determined Canadian seeking justice created an enduring legacy. Through vigorous battles, Jim McRuer’s passion for justice was translated into laws that daily touch and protect the lives of millions today.James Chalmers McRuer was not easy to get along with or even much liked by many lawyers who dubbed him ’Vinegar Jim.’ Yet countless others saw him ... Read more

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  • Serious Play

    Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto

    by Robert Hanning ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers and rattled rulers create a unique dynamic of trenchant critique wrapped in amusing, enlightening, ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Two Medieval Occitan Toll Registers from Tarascon

    by William D. Paden ...
    Series Book 115 - Medieval Academy Books
    Two Medieval Toll Registers from Tarascon presents an edition, translation, and discussion of two vernacular toll registers from fourteenth and fifteenth-century Provence. These two registers are a valuable new source for the economic, linguistic, and transportation history of medieval France, offering a window onto the commercial life of Tarascon, a fortified town on the east bank of the Rhône ... Read more

    $74.19 USD

  • Looking Into Providences

    Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost

    by Raymond Waddington ...
    What is the role of providence in Paradise Lost? In Looking into Providences, Raymond B. Waddington provides the first examination of this engaging subject. He explores the variety of implicit organizational structures or ‘designs’ that govern Paradise Lost, and looks in-depth at the ‘trials,’ or testing situations, which require interpretation, choice, and action from its characters.Waddington ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances

    by Susan Wittig ...
    This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances. As a group, these poems have long resisted generic definition and are traditionally considered to be a conglomerate of unrelated tales held together in a historical matrix of similar themes and characters. As single narratives, they are thought of as ... Read more

    $23.79 USD