We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It’s as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to…
Translated by Sylvain Gallais and Cynthia Hogue
Scuffing up the surface of history by scuffing up that of language, Nathalie Quintane manages to get at the myth of Joan of Arc from the inside, turning it from myth to immediate life…
Edited by Gary Francisco Keller
"Good Bandits, Warrior Women, and Revolutionaries in Hispanic Culture" is the fruit of a groundbreaking conference that was held in Phoenix in 2009. Following an introduction by Gary…
"Volery and Venery in the French Wars of Religion" is the first book-length study to provide an analysis of literary and cultural texts through the lens of people's perspectives on…
In this book, Françoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of Late Antiquity. Pity and compassion, in this corpus,…
Translated by LIM Myung-hee and Kim byoung- hwon
This new book is a translation of Hoyt Tillman's "Utilitarian Confucianism," which was first published by Harvard’s Council on East Asian Studies and distributed by Harvard University…
The topic of this monograph on Cigarrales de Toledo is the interconnection between representations of male friendship, economic patronage systems, and privado political thought in the…
Translated by Maria Gabriela Mizraje
Translation of Katherine Dreier’s "Five Months in the Argentine: From a Woman’s Point of View 1918 to 1919." In the prologue, Mizraje provides a socio-historical context of the period in…
The book, developed on and off for almost forty years, offers a radical revision of life and work of the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695). Based on the latest…
In "Syphilis: Medicine, Metaphor, and Religious Conflict in Early Modern France," Deborah Losse examines how images of syphilis became central to Renaissance writing and reflected more…