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Accidental Pluralism America and the Religious Politics of English Expansion, 1497-1662

Haefeli Evan

ISBN: HB: 9780226742618, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The United States has long been defined by its religious diversity and recurrent public arguments over the religious and political values that define it. In "Accidental Pluralism", Evan Haefeli argues that America did not begin as a religiously diver...

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Lines of Thought Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind

Even-Ezra Ayelet

ISBN: HB: 9780226743080, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 27 halftones, 86 line drawings, 3 tables

We think with objects – we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think wi...

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Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century

Settersten Richard A., Elder Glen H., Pearce Lisa D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226748122, ISBN: HB: 9780226748092, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 14 tables

History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gen...

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Boccaccio's "Decameron" Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the Lyric Tradition

Cervigni Dino S.

ISBN: PB: 9780866986069, University of Chicago Press, ACMRS Press, January 2021
554 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This study develops a new interpretation of The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio's masterpiece, which has found new popularity in the wake of COVID. Dino S. Cervigni offers an inclusive and novel reading of the collection, theorizing that the first nine...

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