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Eastern Asceticism and the Framing of the Christian Life c.400-650 CEThis study provides a fresh perspective on the concept of repentance in early Christianity. Alexis Torrance focuses on writings by several ascetic theologians of the fifth to seventh centuries, and also examines texts from Scripture, early Christian treatises and homilies,...

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This is a study of the 19th-century French poet, Tristan Corbiere. Using close textual readings from  Les Amours jaunes, the only collection published in Corbiere's lifetime, it examines his self-contradictory style. Corbiere's use of irony is shown to be a means of exploring the doubts of modern man and the spiritual void of commodity culture....

This is the first comprehensive study of Tudor drama that sees the long 16th        century from the accession of Henry Tudor to the death of Elizabeth as a whole,        taking in the numinous drama of the 'Mystery Plays' and the early work of        Shakespeare. It is an invaluable account of current scholarship and an introduction        to the...

Studies in the Reception of EpicureanismDynamic Reading examines the reception history of Epicureanism in the West,        focusing in particular on the ways in which it has provided conceptual tools for        defining how we read and respond to texts, art, and the world more generally....