The Sacred and the Sinister

Studies in Medieval Religion and Magic

Edited by David J. Collins, S. J.

“This collection of essays brings together two areas that are still often looked at separately: the history of magic and the history of saints, mystics, and more everyday parishioners. As well as celebrating the work of Richard Kieckhefer, Collins’s volume showcases the original work being done by leading scholars in the field. It should stimulate new work on the relationship between holiness and unholiness in the Middle Ages.”
—Catherine Rider, author of Magic and Religion in Medieval England

Religion Around John Donne

Joshua Eckhardt

“A tour de force. Weaving together close reading, reception study, and book history, this volume sheds new light on Donne’s writing, its readers, and the complex landscape of early modern religious belief and practice. Expertly navigating archival sources, Eckhardt follows Donne’s works as they travel through a world of religious communion and division, generating and participating in conversations that are as compelling now as they were in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.”
—David Colclough, author of John Donne's Professional Lives

Borges Beyond the Visible

Max Ubelaker Andrade

“Borges’s ideal reader is, of course, Borges himself. Max Ubelaker Andrade is not only sharp, knowledgeable, and comprehensive but also passionate—a trait that is surprisingly rare among literary scholars today, so well trained in the art of detached thinking. Ubelaker Andrade knows not only what Borges knew but what he didn’t know. He delivers explorations that make the invisible tangible. My advice to the reader of this book is the same as Borges often gave: mistrust everything in its pages. It’s the only way to come up with your own interpretation. In that task, Ubelaker Andrade will be an astonishing guide.”
—Ilan Stavans, author of Borges, the Jew

Art and Form

From Roger Fry to Global Modernism

Sam Rose

“This book is a gem. It gives the most comprehensive and accessible account of the importance of form in the last hundred years of writing about art. It should be compulsory reading not just for art historians, but also for aestheticians and anyone interested in visual culture.”
—Bence Nanay, author of Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception

The Lady Doctor

Landscape into Eco Art

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Tell el-Borg II

Excavations in North Sinai

Edited by James K. Hoffmeier

This is the second and final volume of scientific and interdisciplinary reports on the excavations and research conducted at Tell el-Borg, north Sinai, between 1998 and 2008, written by the scholars and specialists who worked on the site under the direction of Professor James K. Hoffmeier.

This volume focuses on the cemetery areas, which yield more than a dozen tombs, typically made of mud brick, some of which were constructed for a single occupant and some of which were larger tombs that accommodated. . . (more)

A Glossary of Old Syrian

Volume 1: ʔ–ḳ

Joaquin Sanmartín

A Glossary of Old Syrian: Volume 1: ʔ–ḳ is the first of two volumes aimed at the completion of a lexicographical index of the Old Syrian linguistical continuum. This glossary gives a picture, or map, of the Old Syrian lexicon as it can be extracted and reconstructed from the available sources, from the (Old Akkadian-)Eblatic through the Old and Middle Babylonian corpora.

Old Syrian can be defined most appropriately as a diachronically. . . (more)