Oxford University Press

This wide-ranging book collects some of the major essays, past and new, of two of the leading authorities on the Northern Ireland conflict. These essays            raise crucial issues not only in understanding Northern Ireland's past and future, but also in the peaceful and democratic management of national and ethical conflict around the globe....

Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature connects changing        seventeenth-century English views of maternal nurture to the rise of the modern        nation, especially between 1603 and 1675. Maternal nurture gains new prominence in        the early modern cultural imagination at the precise moment when England undergoes...

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In this volume Richard Viladesau seeks to understand the beauty of the cross as it developed in both theology and art from their beginnings until the eve of the renaissance....

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