Homo homini lupus, man is a wolf to man, remains one of the most well-known and often
quoted dicta in the tradition of political theory. Political theorists take this phrase by Thomas …

Vital Strife examines the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and ethical care in
early modernity. The plays, poems, and philosophical essays at the heart of this book—by …

A close study of Mantegna's Entombment engraving reveals how Mantegna inscribed into
the facture of his engravings their ephemerality and destruction. Mantegna's prints …

The “turn to religion” in early modern scholarship has rewritten critical understandings of the
16th century English Reformation by exposing confessional divides in politics, culture, and …

In the specific contexts of animal forms of life, human exceptionalism is a flexible but
historically persistent reckoning that singles out “the human” for solitary elevation and …

The rise of ecological awareness in recent decades corresponds to the emergence of the
increasingly reputable and significant field of ecocritical studies, which has resulted in the …

William Shakespeare's centrality to contemporary thinking about “the human,” humanism,
and indeed his place within humanities' curricula, likely would have surprised him. It …

This paper provides another case study for what Hans Belting calls “vernacular painting,”
images that Charles Dempsey claims depict a “vernacular visual language” that can only be …