Search Results
WARNING
You are viewing an older version of the Yalebooks website. Please visit out new website with more updated information and a better user experience: https://www.yalebooks.com
Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Descartes' ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics, psychoanalysis, and literature and the...
Trent 1475
Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial
"A highly readable report of one of the most notorious chapters in the history of anti-Semitism. The book gives the modern historian and the general public access to the stunning spectacle of medieval ’due process,’...
Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics
In this wide-ranging historical introduction to philosophical hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyzes conflicts between various interpretive schools, and provides a persuasive...
The Virgin of Chartres
Making History through Liturgy and the Arts
Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in ritual observances particular to each place and region and rooted in the legends of local saints. This richly illustrated...
The English Aristocracy, 1070-1272
A Social Transformation
William the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. In this groundbreaking book, David Crouch examines for the first time the fate of the English...
Learn to Read Greek
Textbook, Part 1
Learn to Read Greek is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors’ Learn to Read Latin, published in 2004. Like its Latin predecessor, it...
Witch Craze
Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful...
Dwelling Place
A Plantation Epic
An intimate view of plantation family life from the “big house” and from the slave cabins Published some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers’s Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the...
A Man's Place
Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England
Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how...
Héritages francophones
Enquêtes interculturelles
An innovative program of cultural readings designed for college French classes at the upper-intermediate level and beyond, Héritages francophones is an introduction to several living Francophone cultures in the...