Books from University of Notre Dame Pess
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The Phenomenology of Spirit
By G. W. F. HegelThis book is intended for intellectuals with a vested interest in modern philosophy and history, as well as students of all levels, seeking to access or further engage with this seminal text.
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German Conquistadors in Venezuela: The Welsers' Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory
By Giovanna Montenegro... Venezuela: Aguado y Simón. Caracas: Venezuela, Ministerio de Educación Nacional. Adorno, Rolena. 2011. Colonial Latin ... Una introducción a la Venezuela prehispánica: Culturas de las naciones indígenas venezolanas. Caracas: Universidad ...
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The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor: The Trials of Marguerite Porete and Guiard of Cressonessart
By Sean L. FieldThe Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor is an analysis of the inquisitorial trials, their political as well as ecclesiastical context, and their historical significance.
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Newton on Matter and Activity
By Ernan McMullin... matter in the universe, so far are we from conceiving what matter is”.225 This qualification would not have pleased Newton. who was fairly sure he knew what matter is, but it underlines the increasingly problematic role of a vanishingly ...
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Hell: The Logic of Damnation
By Jerry L. WallsJerry L. Walls cogently argues that some traditional views of hell are still defensible and can be believed with intellectual and moral integrity.
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March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 1
By Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe action of book 1 (of four) of March 1917 is set during March 8–12. The absorbing narrative tells the stories of more than fifty characters during the days when the Russian Empire begins to crumble.
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The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia: From the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Period
By Minoru Inaba, D. G. TorThis volume examines the major cultural, religious, political, and urban changes that took place in the Iranian world of Inner and Central Asia in the transition from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic periods.
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The Business of Conquest: Empire, Love, and Law in the Atlantic World
By Nicole D. LegnaniIn this partnership, the work of the conquistador became, ultimately, that of a traveling business agent for the Spanish empire whose excess from one venture capitalized the next.
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Before the Dawn: An Autobiography
By Gerry AdamsFirst published in 1996, this edition contains a new introduction and epilogue written by the author, covering Adams’s family, Brexit, and the peace process.
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Spiritual Guides: Pathfinders in the Desert
By Fred Dallmayr... Books, 2014), 127–30. 4. Block, Brueggemann, and McKnight, The Other Kingdom, xiv, 16. 5. Alasdair MacIntyre, After ... 2009), 122–25, 163; see also my “Farewell and Ereignis: Beyond Hard Power and Soft Power,” in Against Apocalypse ...
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Rethinking the Medieval Legacy for Contemporary Theology
By Anselm K. MinAnselm K. Min. 110. Spiritual Friendship III.93. 111. Spiritual Friendship I.61, 65. 112. Spiritual Friendship II.72 ... Revelations of Divine Love, chap. 40, 121. 133. Revelations of Divine Love, chaps. 39–40, 120–23; chap. 63, 175. 134 ...
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Visual Translation: Illuminated Manuscripts and the First French Humanists
By Anne D. HedemanWith over 180 color images, this major reference book will appeal to students and scholars of French, comparative literature, art history, history of the book, and translation studies.
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Dante's "Vita Nova": A Collaborative Reading
By Heather Webb, Zygmunt G. Barański... Dante and the Making , 179–81 ; Barański , " Roots of Dante's Plurilingualism " ; Todorović , Dante and the Dynamics . 4. Pirovano , " Nota introduttiva , ” 4-7 . The intentional suppressions within the prose comments remain prominent ...
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Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Legal Impact of the American Convention on Human Rights
By Ligia De Jesús CastaldiAbortion in Latin America and the Caribbean is the first major book to analyze the abortion laws of the Latin American and Caribbean nations that are parties to the American Convention on Human Rights.
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The Spirit of Hispanism: Commerce, Culture, and Identity across the Atlantic, 1875–1936
By Diana Arbaiza... Rafael Altamira en América (1909–1910). Madrid: CSIC. Prados de la Escosura, Leandro. 1988. De imperio a nación: Crecimiento y atraso económico en España (1780–1930). Madrid: Alianza. Pratt, Mary Louise. 2002. “Modernity and Periphery ...
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The Person and the Common Good
By Jacques MaritainPresenting with moving insight the relations between man, as a person and as an individual, and the society of which he is a part, Maritain's treatment of a lasting topic speaks to this generation as well as those to come.
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The Eucharistic Sacrifice
By Sergius BulgakovThis work, written in 1940, belongs to Bulgakov’s late period and is his last, and most discerning, word on eucharistic theology.
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Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940
By Erik ChingIn Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880-1940, Erik Ching seeks to explain the origins of the military regime that came to power in 1931.
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Creation as Emanation: The Origin of Diversity in Albert the Great's On the Causes and the Procession of the Universe
By Therese BoninConsidering this Neoplatonic text a product of Aristotle's school and even the completion of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Albert the Great concluded his series of Aristotelian paraphrases by commenting on it.
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The Quality of Democracy: Theory and Applications
By Guillermo O'Donnell, Jorge Vargas Cullell, Osvaldo M. IazzettaThis book will make important strides in addressing the increasing practical and academic concerns about the quality of democracy. It will be required reading for political scientists, policy analysts, and Latin Americanists.