Yale University Press

Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late 17th-century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's stately Baroque Easton Neston, and the interiors of Althorp provide a fascinating survey of changing taste through the...

In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of the region, Anders Winroth contends that rather than acting as passive...

In the latest volume in the esteemed series Victoria Todd, Jack and Kerry Kelly Novick, and Norka T. Malberg look at issues involving the child analyst at work; and Frederick L. Meisel, Victoria Todd, Aerin Hyun, write about on children affected by medical illness. The volume also includes contributions from Adele Kaufman, Bernadette Kovach, Wendy...

The latest volume in the esteemed series features special sections devoted to sibling relationships and to working with parents of adolescents. Other contributions address the adolescent's use of cyberspace to regulate intimacy in psychotherapy, the evolution of traumatic memories over the course of development, and the role of the other in object...

The Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was one of the leading proponents of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer's discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence - the fact that our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive...

As the wife of King George II, Caroline of Ansbach became queen of England in 1727. Known for her intelligence and strong character, Queen Caroline wielded considerable political power until her death in 1737. She was enthusiastic and energetic in her cultural patronage, engaging in projects that touched on the arts, architecture, gardens,...