Envy is almost universally condemned and feared. But is its bad reputation always
warranted? In this book, Sara Protasi argues that envy is more multifaceted than it seems …

It is a commonly held belief that medieval Catholics were focussed on the'bells and whistles'
of religious practices, the smoke, images, sights and sounds that dazzled pre-modern …

AIDS, argue that “nothing is more punitive than to give a disease meaning—that meaning
being invariably a moralistic one.” 4 Other inquiries highlight the use of metaphors in …

Reflecting the era's historicist sensibility as much as the general revival of orthodoxy in the
various Christian denominations, the Nazarenes responded with great acumen to pressing …

There'sa shadow just behind me, Clouding every step I take, Making every promise empty,
Pointing every finger at me, Waiting like a stalking butler...(Tool,“Sober,” Undertow, 1993) 1 …

When I was contacted by Emma Travis at Routledge and asked to edit a volume on wine
and culture for their Handbook series, I immediately declined. I'd just come out of editing two …

The form of confession is a genre of religious instruction that circulated widely in the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in northern Europe, especially in England, in the wake of …

What expectations did the women and men living in early monastic communities carry into
relationships of obedience and advice? What did they hope to achieve through confession …

Why did people talk so much about avarice in late Renaissance France, nearly a century
before Molière's famous comedy, L'Avare? As wars and economic crises ravaged France on …

Ascetic Pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great presents three
interconnected arguments. The first argument concerns scholarly readings of antiquity: there …