Oxford University Press

This is the first scholarly study of inquisition into heresy in medieval England. Heresy was the most feared crime in the medieval moral universe. It was seen as a social disease capable of poisoning the body politic and shattering the unity of the church.  Ian Forrest argues that in order to understand who the heretics were, we first need to...

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This book describes the clinical approach to patients with abnormal states of consciousness including delirium, stupor and coma. It describes the pathophysiology, clinical and imaging findings, treatment and prognosis of such patients....

This book analyzes the distinctive contribution to literary history of early-seventeenth-century hand-written English poetry anthologies. Compiled by manuscript verse collectors, these anthologies preserved a number of pieces by major authors of the English Renaissance, yet they tended to surround them with unprintable verses on sex and politics....

Immigrant Gateway to AmericaFrom 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco served as the processing and detention center for over one million people from around the world. The full history of these immigrants and their experiences on Angel Island is told for the first time in this landmark book....

Sixteen philosophers offer specially written essays on the themes of mind, method and morality in the work of Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and Wittgenstein. These themes reflect the contribution of Anthony Kenny to our understanding of the Western philosophical tradition, and of these thinkers in particular....