Happiness in Premodern Judaism

Happiness in Premodern JudaismHava Tirosh Samuelson shows that rabbinic Judaism regarded itself primarily as a prescription for the attainment of happiness, and that the discourse on happiness captures the evolution of Jewish intellectual history from antiquity to the seventeenth century.

Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser

grounded in rich archival sources

Bold and uncompromising

No British social movement captured contemporary imaginations as Chartism did

exploring the lessons to be learned from post-conflict efforts to 'deal with the past' in Northern Ireland and providing a starting point for wider academic and public debate in Britain on the significance of this history

Model collapse explores the relationship between art and democracy since the 1990s

This collection will be an indispensable reference work to scholars

This is a landmark study which examines the film and reading tastes of working-class consumers in 1930s Britain

through in-depth case studies and broad surveys of emergent trends it explores popular anxieties about health

This book addresses the topical discussion of how democracy can be achieved beyond the nation-state and challenges the widespread optimism about the democratic potential of civil society participation in European governance

culture and social groups

Fragments of history is a model of how interdisciplinary research can be conducted