Oxford University Press

A study of how Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers described, interpreted, criticized, and utilized the components and concepts of the religion of the people of their time. These include practices such as sacrifice, prayer, dedications, and divination, and the governing concepts of piety and impiety....

Reforming Saints is an investigation of how and why early German humanists were attracted to composing saint's lives in the half century preceding the Reformation. David J. Collins approaches the humanists' writings on their own terms and recaptures the creative energy the humanists brought to the task of revising the legends of the saints. The...

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A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918This is a study of the social origin, education, training, code of honor,        lifestyle, and political role of the Habsburg officers....

Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and        IrelandIn the first fully documented study of British and Irish popular reactions to the        outbreak of the First World War, Catriona Pennell explores UK public opinion of the        time and successfully challenges the myth of British 'war enthusiasm'....

Freedom of religion was one of the bedrock principles of the founding, and one of the keys to the success of the American experiment. In this provocative book, David Sehat argues that this is far from true. In fact, for most of American history, a "e;moral establishment"e; used the law to enforce a Protestant Christian morality that made...