First published in 1980, this study of two later fourteenth century English poets, Chaucer and Langland, concentrates on some major and representative aspects of their work. It shows that they…

Concepts of predestination and reprobation were central issues in the Protestant Reformation, especially within Calvinist churches, and thus have often been studied primarily in the historical context of the sixteenth…

First published in 1981.The primary purpose of this book is to serve as an introduction to writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. An original and highly stimulated…

John Vianney the onetime parish priest of Ars, possesses a peculiar charm not only because of the gentleness and simplicity of his character but also from the fact that his…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

This is the first full-length study of the nature of Aristotle and Cicero’s development of topoi, the conceptual ancestors of modern argument schemes. It illuminates an area of rhetoric and…

Ars Angelorum provides a catalogue of seals and descriptions for 360 spirits who are ruled over by a series of archangels and angels. These are divided and assigned to the…

This catalogue of the astronomical manuscripts preserved at the Maharaja Man Singh Museum provides a substantial part of the foundation for an extensive & penetrating analysis of the astronomical activities…