Art for Animals

Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914

J. Keri Cronin

Transmitting the Spirit

Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence in Brazil

Martijn Oosterbaan

“A detailed, sympathetic analysis of favela religion in relation to secular media . . .. Highly recommended.”
—S. D. Glazier, Choice

Thinking Together

Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century

Edited by Angela G. Ray and Paul Stob

“A highly original collection that introduces readers not only to diversity in subjects and approaches but also to the commonalities in aspiration and pleasure. Contributors do justice to both in essays ranging from a lyceum in Liberia to meetings of soldiers imprisoned during the Civil War to immigrants on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.”
—Mary Kelly, author of Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic

Middle English Marvels

Magic, Spectacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century

Tara Williams

“A universal appeal underlies this book's particular exploration of how Middle English literary spectacles function in a handful of 14th-century texts . . .. Williams contributes to the scholarly discussion material that will be useful for understanding traditional elements such as plot, character, and theme and also postmodern interest in identity and alterity”
—A. P. Church, Choice

Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two

School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts

A. R. George and Gabriella Spada

In ancient Mesopotamia, men training to be scribes copied model letters in order to practice writing and familiarize themselves with epistolary forms and expressions. Similarly, model contracts were used to teach them how to draw up agreements for the transactions typical of everyday economic life. This volume makes available a trove of previously. . . (more)

Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection

Volume 1: Literary Sources on Old Babylonian Religion

Christopher Metcalf

The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated, and annotated by Christopher Metcalf, these poems shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, and scribal culture in. . . (more)