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Composed of three connected essays, this volume explores theoretical understanding and human conduct in general, the ideal mode of human relationship, which the author calls "civil association", and the ambiguous, historic association commonly called a modern European state.

This treatise explores the scope and limits of the concept of personal identity in contemporary philosophy. The author begins by questioning the methodology of thought-experimentation, arguing that it engenders inconclusive and unconvincing results, and that truth is stranger than fiction.

This book deals with God's covenant with Israel which the author believes is a theme central to the understanding of the Old Testament. He argues that the debate during the last century has revealed how crucial the covenant idea was in the development of what is distinctive in the faith of Israel.

This is a classic study of a disease which had a profound impact in Tudor and Stuart England. Plague was both a personal affliction and a social calamity, regularly decimating urban populations. Paul Slack vividly describes the stresses which plague imposed on individuals, families, and whole communities, and the ways in which people tried to explain, control, and come to terms with it.

This study of the Navy during the English Revolution argues that the Commonwealth Navy did not, as is often assumed, stand back from domestic political controversies, but was deeply influenced by the revolutionary circumstances of its origins.

This study presents a liberal view about the nature and value of community and culture, and links it to more familiar views on individual rights and state neutrality. The author argues that liberalism when properly applied permits the legal constraints necessary to protect ethnic minorities.

A study of problems surrounding the interpretation of Bach's keyboard music, this work looks at rhythm, tempo, articulation and dynamics, as well as the instruments for which Bach's music was intended. It also includes a discussion of ornamentation.

Marriage, a fundamental institution in human societies, takes varying forms. This study explores the practicalities, the cultural assumptions, and the affective possibilities of marriage during the later Roman Republic and the Principate (c. 100 BC-235 AD).

Barbara Everett brings her extraordinary ability to read closely and her intimate knowledge of the period to an examination of the work of a range of poets from the sixteenth century to the present day. The 12 essays show the way each poet remains an individual while interacting with a particular historical context.

The aim of this guide is to provide the reader with a deeper understanding and enjoyment of such operas as "Don Giovanni" and "Cosi Fan Tutte", not so much through musical analysis as through setting the scene for their composition.

An examination of the mentality of the first half of the 19th century, when catastrophes and personal misfortune were seen as dispensations of divine providence. In the 1850s and 1860s, however, a different attitude developed. at the centre of which was a new way of understanding the Atonement.

This is a study of the maquis in southern France, the resisters who took to the woods and hills in the struggle against the German Occupation in the Second World War. From the many fascinating and moving individual stories emerge a sense of place a clearer understanding of the maquisard, and an unsentimental assessment of the role of the maquis in French history.

This book examines the presuppositions of the claims of the Enlightenment, and then shows how the traditional ways of theology can be seen to retain their validity.

This is a fascinating and original study of the image of the woman reader in Victorian and Edwardian culture and literature. Kate Flint draws on a wide range of texts from `high' literature to advice manuals, autobiographies to medical and psychological writings in order to examine the controversies surrounding what, where, and how women should read.

Explores the significance behind the religious sites of ancient Greece - why they grew up there, and what social, political, and anthropological influences may have contributed to their development.

This volume presents 12 original essays by contemporary natural law theorists and their critics. Natural law theory is enjoying a revival of interest today in a variety of disciplines, including law, philosophy, political science, and theology and religious studies.

This text concentrates on research done during the last 20 years on the philosophy of quantum mechanics. In particular, the author focuses on three major issues: whether quantum mechanics is an incomplete theory, whether it is non-local, and whether it can be interpreted realistically.

The rise of the novel in the mid-18th century was also the rise of sentimentalism. This study explores the attitudes which led novelists to associate virtuous feeling with disabling suffering. It also examines the role of women in fiction and in society during that period.

The `Iliad' and `Odyssey' are not just good stories. Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on the persons and actions, and to interpret the world and human life and death. This book shows how this is done.

This study by a Jesuit moral theologian examines the events, personalities and conflicts which have contributed, from New Testament times to the present, to the Roman Catholic moral tradition and its contemporary crisis. The author interprets fundamental changes taking place in the subject today.

This study combines history and ethnography to describe the tribal system in Yemen over the last thousand years, and examines the values the tribal people themselves bring to the contemporary world of nation states.

This is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favourite poet, Ovid. Examining the full range of Shakespeare's works, Jonathan Bate shows how deeply creative the influence of Ovid was. His accessible study reveals Shakespeare as an extraordinarily sophisticated reader of Ovidian myth and as a metamorphic artist as fluid and nimble as his classical original.

In this text, the author defends the proposition that "moral laws" can play a legitimate - if subsidiary - role in preserving the "moral ecology" of the cultural environment in which people live their lives.

This study explores the complex relationships between religious sects and contemporary Western society, examining the controversial social, political and religious issues that arise as sects seek to pursue a way of life at variance with that of other people.

The "Oeconomicus" is unique in Greek literature in combining a discussion of the proper management of an oikos (family or household) and didactic material on agriculture within a Socratic dialogue. It is a rich primary source for the social, economic and intellectual history of classical Athens.

The visual effect of the staging of Aeschylus' plays was an essential part of their impact. All that survives today are the scripts but this book attempts to search for clues of Aeschylus' stagecraft in the texts of the plays themselves.

During his short life Schubert produced a huge amount and variety of music. This biography paints a picture of him and his world, exploring family background, education and musical upbringing, his manic-depression, the effect of his lifestyle on his music, and the circumstances of his death.

This is a fascinating account of daily life in Westminster, one of medieval England's most important monastic communities. It is also a broad scholarly exploration of some major themes in the social history of the Middle Ages by one of its most distinguished historians. 'an outstanding book', Times Higher Education Supplement

First published in 1965, this book deals with the history of violin playing against the background of the violin's evolution and the music written for it. Topics covered include the manner of playing in past centuries, the rules of "scordatura" playing and meanings of performing directions.

Considering Blake's prophetic books of the 1790s in the light of the French Revolution controversy raging at the time, this study argues that his work is less the expression of isolated genius than the product of a complex response to the cultural politics of his contemporaries.