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  • Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis

    by T. Tinkle ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible. ... Read more

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  • Imagining Jesus Christ in Middle English Literature, 1275-1475

    Royal Traitor, Heroic Lamb

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book interprets Jesus Christ as a complicated, disunified literary character in Middle English literature, where he appears variously as king, traitor, victorious conqueror, sacrificial lamb, heroic knight, lover, and spouse--often as several contradictory figures in a single work. These tropes derive from Scripture, doctrines about Christ's two natures, and theories of redemption. This book ... Read more

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  • A day in the life of a Roman

    How They Did Public business

    A Day in the Life of a Roman: How They Did Public BusinessBefore the legions marched.Before the Senate debated.There was the system.Beneath Rome’s temples and triumphal arches ran an intricate network of stone, water, and engineering that kept the greatest city of the ancient world alive. Aqueducts carried lifelines across miles of countryside. Marble benches lined bustling public spaces. Mosaic ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Maybe I Don't Feel Like Smiling

    by Kris Tinkle ...
    Narrated by Kris Tinkle ...

    Unabridged

    44 min

    Comedian Kris Tinkle has been making his mark on the New York City stand up scene since he moved there from his native San Francisco. He was the co-host and resident comedian on Comedy By Request on SiriusXM Raw Dog. He has appeared on DirecTV’s The Artie Lange Show, is a regular on SiriusXM Radio’s “Friday’s with Breuer” and “Tap Out Radio,” and has been featured in the New York Comedy Festival, ... Read more

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  • Medieval Venuses and Cupids

    Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry

    Series series Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture
    Medieval Venuses and Cupids analyses the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth (including astrology, natural philosophy, and commentaries on classical Roman literature), and French conventions that associate Venus and Cupid with Ovidian arts of love. Whereas existing studies of Venus and Cupid contend that they ... Read more

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  • The Secret of Mago Castle

    When Angeline set out to escape her troubles among the red rocks of Sedona, Arizona, she never imagined that she would discover her destiny. Five lives converge in this sleepy tourist town where the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance. As Angeline, Toby, Noah, Suna, and Leuters discover latent supernatural abilities and wisdoms from an ancient past, they race against time to dissolve the veils ... Read more

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  • Renaissance Self-Fashioning

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    "Greenblatt's classic placed the world of Renaissance scholarship in a deep and vigorous dialogue with literary modernity . . . a remarkable work." —Homi BhabhaPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorRenaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary ... Read more

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  • The Book of "Job"

    A Biography

    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    The Book of Job raises stark questions about the nature and meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is also one of the Bible's most obscure and paradoxical books, one that defies interpretation even today. Mark Larrimore provides a panoramic history of this remarkable book, traversing centuries and traditions to examine how Job's trials and his ... Read more

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  • Politicizing the Bible

    The Roots of Historical Criticism and the Secularization of Scripture 1300-1700

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  • 365 Days of Catholic Wisdom

    A Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

    Thinking with the mind of the Church, Mr. Hudson has mined the riches of faith and reason with which the Church has blessed civilization and with which She has shone forth the splendor of truth across two millennia.It was G. K. Chesterton who quipped that the Church is the one continual institution to have been thinking about thinking for two thousand years, and it is for this reason, as ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness

    Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of religious life. Whereas priests had once acted as mediators between God and men through sacramental rites, Reformed theology declared the priesthood of all believers. What ensued was not the tidy ... Read more

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