The origins of justice

the evolution of morality, human rights, and law

Supreme justice

speeches and wrintings: Thurgood Marshall

God and the goddesses

vision, poetry, and belief in the Middle Ages

Contrary to popular belief, the medieval religious imagination did not restrict itself to masculine images of God but envisaged the divine in multiple forms. In fact, the God of medieval Christendom was the Father of only one Son but many daughters--including Lady Philosophy, Lady Love ...

Sensible flesh

on touch in early modern culture

This ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection explores the complex, ambiguous, and contradictory sense of touch in early modern culture. If touch is the sense that mediates between the body of the subject and the world, these essays make apparent the frequently disregarded lexicons of tactility that lie ...

Keeping up with the Joneses

envy in American consumer society, 1890-1930

A century ago many Americans condemned envy as a destructive emotion and a sin. Today few Americans expect criticism when they express envy, and some commentators maintain that the emotion drives the economy. This shift in attitude is Susan Matt's central concern. Keeping up ...

Modern Spain

a documentary history

Monsters

evil beings, mythical beasts, and all manner of imaginary terrors

The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. All known folklores ...

A crisis of truth

literature and law in Ricardian England