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Scottish Episcopalianism has been neglected by historians. This new work looks at the various groups of Episcopalians in the nineteenth century, showing how their beliefs and attitudes responded to the new industrial and urban society. Never before have these groups been subject to historical examination. They include Highland Gaels; North-East...

Peter Lombard is best known as the author of a celebrated work entitled    Book of Sentences, which for several centuries served as the standard theological textbook in the Christian West. It was the subject of more commentaries than any other work of Christian literature besides the Bible itself. The  Book of Sentences is essentially a compilation...

This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s        to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic,        mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer        literary explorations; it relies heavily on intertextual allusion to other works,...

Semantics: A Reader is a collection of published articles in the area of semantics, and is designed as a textbook for use in upper level philosophy and linguistics courses and as a reference for scholars of linguistics who want the classic articles in their field in one convenient place....

This book explores how traditional theories of economic justice, both from the libertarian right and the egalitarian left, have failed to appreciate the objection against exploitative behavior that would be possible through the exercise of property rights. This failure also underlies the recent plea for a so-called unconditional basic income....

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