University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
by Desiderius Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Volume 58 in the Collected Works of Erasmus series contains, for the first time, the English translation of Erasmus’ Annotations on Paul’s Epistles to the Galatians and Ephesians.
Erasmus’ Annotations began as marginal comments in his own copy of the New Testament and were subsequently...
by Richard D. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
During the first century BC, the Near and Middle Easy saw a great transition from the Seleucid and Ptolemaic Empires, by way of the brief Pontic and Armenian Empires, to the triumphant Parthian and Roman Empires. Richard D. Sullivan offers a guide to the central role of royalty during this period....
Sir Guy Carleton
(Lord Dorchester)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
This biography of Sir Guy Carleton was first published in the famous Makers of Canada series in 1907, and re-issued in 1926 with supplementary notes incorporating later research by A.L. Burt. When it first appeared it was reviewed by William Wood, who described it as "a really good book on one of the greatest makers of the Empire."
After the Paris Attacks
Responses in Canada, Europe, and Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 left seventeen dead and shocked the world. In the aftermath, the public struggles with unsettling questions: What is the cost of free expression? Do the world’s major cities embrace...
The Protestant Whore
Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2010
After the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Protestants worried that King Charles II might favour religious freedom for Roman Catholics, and many suspected that the king was unduly influenced by his Catholic mistresses. Nell Gwyn, actress and royal mistress, stood apart by virtue of her...
Hegel's Introduction to the System
Encyclopaedia Phenomenology and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
As an introduction to his own notoriously complex and challenging philosophy, Hegel recommended the sections on phenomenology and psychology from The Philosophy of Spirit, the third part of his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophic Sciences. These offered the best introduction to his philosophic system,...
Studies in the Eighteenth Century
Papers presented at the David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
The papers brought together in this volume bear witness to the growing vigour and diversity of eighteenth-century studies. The seminar at which they were presented was held to honour the memory of a literary scholar, David Nichol Smith. It is therefore understandable and fitting that the majority...
Peasant, Lord, and Merchant
Rural Society in Three Quebec Parishes 1740-1840
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1985
Rural life in pre-industrial Quebec was essentially organized around a feudal society. Allan Greer takes a close look at the at society and its economy in three parishes in Lower Richelieu valley Sorel, St Ours, and St Denis from 1740 to 1840. He finds a pronounced pattern of household self-sufficiency;...
Writing Beloveds
Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in...
Fighting Words and Images
Representing War Across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Fighting Words and Images is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis of war representations across time periods from Classical Antiquity to the present day and across languages, cultures, and media including print, painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography.
Featuring...
Bayanihan and Belonging
Filipinos and Religion in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Filipinos make up one of the largest immigrant groups in Canada and the majority continue to retain their Roman Catholic faith long after migrating. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in Canada and the Philippines from 1880 to 2017, Bayanihan and Belonging aims to understand the role of...
Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands
Shelley's Poetic Development and Romantic Geography
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2009
The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley had a complicated relationship with the British Empire and the culture of colonialism. Considered politically radical and scandalous in Britain, Shelley lived in self-imposed exile and set much of his writing in foreign places. In Strange Truths in Undiscovered...
From Body to Community
Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Known in early modern Europe by many names – the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis – the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carried the stigma of sexuality and produced a slow and painful death. The main institution which treated it, the pox hospital, has come down to us as...
Law and the Visual
Transition, Transformation, Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and critics come together to present new work examining the intersection between legal and visual discourses. Proceeding chronologically, the volume offers leading analyses of the juncture between legal and visual culture as witnessed...