Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Equality under the Constitution
Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The principle of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed in the Constitution does not distinguish between individuals according to their capacities or merits. It is written into these documents to ensure that each and every person enjoys equal respect and equal rights....
The Sleep of Behemoth
Disputing Peace and Violence in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Sleep of Behemoth, Jehangir Yezdi Malegam explores the emergence of conflicting concepts of peace in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. Ever since the early Church, Christian thinkers had conceived of their peace separate from the peace of the world, guarded by the sacraments and shared...
Francis of Assisi
The Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
This elegant and accessible biography of one of Catholicism's most beloved saints was originally published as Part 1 of Francis of Assisi: A New Biography by Augustine Thompson, O.P. It stands alone as a richly informed portrait of a man whose complex faith and commitment continue to inspire today....
Francis of Assisi
A New Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Among the most beloved saints in the Catholic tradition, Francis of Assisi (c. 1181–1226) is popularly remembered for his dedication to poverty, his love of animals and nature, and his desire to follow perfectly the teachings and example of Christ. During his lifetime and after his death, followers...
Her Father’s Daughter
Gender, Power, and Religion in the Early Spanish Kingdoms
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"In Her Father’s Daughter, Lucy K. Pick looks to a much-neglected aspect of the history of the Spanish kingdoms in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Her book is novel and original."—Teofilo Ruiz, author of A King Travels
"Her Father’s Daughter will contribute to and enrich ongoing discussions...
Europe United
Power Politics and the Making of the European Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The construction of the European Community (EC) has widely been understood as the product of either economic self-interest or dissatisfaction with the nation-state system. In Europe United, Sebastian Rosato challenges these conventional explanations, arguing that the Community came into being because...
Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome
Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
Same-sex marriage is a hotly debated topic in the United States, and the world, today. From the tenor of most discussions, however, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely contemporary phenomenon. Not so, argues Gary Ferguson in this...
Eating Beauty
The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
"The enigmatic link between the natural and artistic beauty that is to be contemplated but not eaten, on the one hand, and the eucharistic beauty that is both seen (with the eyes of faith) and eaten, on the other, intrigues me and inspires this book. One cannot ask theo-aesthetic questions about the...
The Talents of Jacopo da Varagine
A Genoese Mind in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Jacopo da Varagine (c. 1228–1298) is remembered today primarily for his immensely popular work The Golden Legend, a massive collection of stories about the saints. Compiled over the years 1260–67, The Golden Legend quickly eclipsed earlier collections of saints’ lives. One indication of its...
Growing Up Muslim
Muslim College Students in America Tell Their Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
"While 9/11 and its aftermath created a traumatic turning point for most of the writers in this book, it is telling that none of their essays begin with that moment. These young people were living, probing, and shifting their Muslim identities long before 9/11.... I've heard it said that the second...
Defiant Priests
Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Two hundred years after canon law prohibited clerical marriage, parish priests in the late medieval period continued to form unions with women that were marriage all but in name. In Defiant Priests, Michelle Armstrong-Partida uses evidence from extraordinary archives in four Catalan dioceses to show...
by Ron E. Hassner
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet their spiritual and cultural importance can lead to competition as religious groups seek to exclude rivals from practicing potentially sacrilegious rituals in the hallowed space...
Discerning Spirits
Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval people decided whom to venerate as...
Holy Matter
Changing Perceptions of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2014
A magnificent proliferation of new Christ-centered devotional practices—including affective meditation, imitative suffering, crusade, Eucharistic cults and miracles, passion drama, and liturgical performance—reveals profound changes in the Western Christian temperament of the twelfth century and...