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Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages investigates the widely held medieval belief that magic could cause sexual dysfunction. It focuses mainly on the period 1150-1450, and compares sources from four genres: confessors' manuals, medical compendia, canon law commentaries, and commentaries on the  Sentences of Peter Lombard. This comparison shows...

The Passionate Statesman explores the intersection of passion and politics in        Plutarch's Parallel Lives, with special emphasis on how he represents the influence        of ers, or erotic desire, on the careers of some of the most prominent        statesmen from Greco-Roman antiquity.Using Aristotle's notion of friendship and        Plato's...

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This book presents two essays by Nishida Kitaro, translated into English for the first time by John Krummel and Shigenori Nagatomo. Nishida is widely regarded as one of the father figures of modern Japanese philosophy and as the founder of the first distinctly Japanese school of philosophy, the Kyoto school, known for its synthesis of western...

The United States has taken a long and winding road to racial equality, especially as it pertains to relations between blacks and whites. When Barack Hussein Obama was elected as the forty-fourth President of the United States and first black person to occupy the highest office in the land, many wondered whether that road had finally come to an...

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