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Absolutism in Renaissance Milan shows how authority above the law, once the        preserve of pope and emperor, was claimed by the ruling Milanese dynasties, the        Visconti and the Sforza, and why this privilege was finally abandoned by Francesco        II Sforza (d. 1535), the last duke.As new rulers, the Visconti and the Sforza...

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A bold new presentation of universal salvation via comparative analysis of the thought of Origen and Karl Barth. Greggs offers a defence of universalism as rooted in Christian theology, showing this belief does not have to be at the expense of human particularity, freedom, and Christian faith....

Ethics and Behavior in the Old SouthA finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award, hailed in The        Washington Post as "e;a work of enormous imagination and enterprise"e; and in The New        York Times as "e;an important, original book,"e; Southern Honor revolutionized our        understanding of the antebellum...

This study analyzes Hegel's philosophy of religion in relation to ongoing debates        about the relation between religion and politics as well as the history of their        conceptualization in the modern West. Lewis argues that recent non-traditional, more        Kantian interpretations of Hegel's project open up a new understanding of...

This is a book on the history of drug discovery that highlights the intellectual splendor of discoverers as well as the human frailty associated with them....