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Asceticism and society in crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern saints

Author: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook

Publisher: University of California Press, 1990

Abstract: John of Ephesus traveled throughout the sixth-century Byzantine world in his role as monk, mission…

Gasparo Contarini: Venice, Rome, and reform

Author: Gleason, Elisabeth G

Publisher: University of California Press, 1993

Abstract: Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) was a major protagonist in the Counter-Reformation of the sixteenth …

Nemea: a guide to the site and museum

Author: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1989

Abstract: In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions li…

Opera in seventeenth-century Venice: the creation of a genre

Author: Rosand, Ellen

Publisher: University of California Press, 1990

Abstract: Ellen Rosand shows how opera, born of courtly entertainment, took root in the special social and e…

William Faulkner and the tangible past: the architecture of Yoknapatawpha

Author: Hines, Thomas S

Publisher: University of California Press, 1997

Abstract: The world of William Faulkner is seen from a new perspective in Thomas Hines's imaginative and man…

Renaissance Paris: architecture and growth, 1475-1600

Author: Thomson, David 1912-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1985

Abstract: In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the …

Symeon the holy fool: Leontius's Life and the late antique city

Author: Krueger, Derek

Publisher: University of California Press, 1996

Abstract: This first English translation of Leontius of Neapolis's Life of Symeon the Fool brings to life on…

Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India

Author: Roy, Parama

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998

Abstract: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postc…

Backstory 3: interviews with screenwriters of the 1960s

Author: McGilligan, Patrick

Publisher: University of California Press, 1997

Abstract: The Backstory series of unique "oral histories" chronicles the lives and careers of notable Hollyw…

The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in north India

Author: Alter, Joseph S

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Abstract: The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-developme…