Crime and Forgiveness
A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turning execution into a great cathartic public ritual and the condemned into a Christ-like figure who accepts death to save humanity. The public execution of criminals has been a common practice ever since ancient times. In this wide-ranging investigation of the death penalty in Europe from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, noted Italian historian Adriano Prosperi identifies a crucial period when legal concepts of vengeance and justice merged with Christian beliefs in repentance and forgiveness. Crime and Forgiveness begins with late antiquity but comes into sharp focus in fourteenth-century Italy, with the work of the Confraternities of Mercy, which offered Christian comfort to the condemned and were for centuries responsible for burying the dead. Under the brotherhoods’ influence, the ritual of public execution became Christianized,
Pugilist Specialist
San Francisco-based The Riot Group won every major award at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival with this timely premiere dissecting the American military's hunt for evil in foreign lands. Pugilist Specialist introduces four highly trained American marine...
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Enlightened Eclecticism
A beautifully illustrated exploration of opulent tastes and the power of patronage in 18th-century Britain The central decades of the eighteenth century in Britain were crucial to the history of European taste and design. One of the period's most ...
The World that Wasn't There
The World that Wasn't There
360 Degrees of the Zodiac
The 360 Degrees of the Zodiac
Biennale Art 2024
The 60th International Art Exhibition, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, which will be held from April 20th to November 24th 2024 in Venice, is titled Foreigners Everywhere. The exhibition takes its name from a series of artworks made in 2004 by the Cla...
Gelato
Gelato
Introduction to Satellite Remote Sensing
Introduction to Satellite Remote Sensing: Atmosphere, Ocean and Land Applications is the first reference book to cover ocean applications, atmospheric applications, and land applications of remote sensing. Applications of remote sensing dat...
Covid-19: Was in der Krise zählt. Über Philosophie in Echtzeit
Was tun, wenn existenzielle Entscheidungen ohne sichere Datengrundlage und in größter Eile zu treffen sind? Auch Experten sind vor Denkfehlern nicht gefeit. Hier kann »Philosophie in Echtzeit« helfen. Denn Erkenntnistheorie, Risikoethik und Entsch...
Secret Rome Guide - A guide to the unusual and unfamiliar
Let Secret Rome guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Rome guide book and let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures of an amazing city. Ideal for local inhabitants and curious t...
Complex and Symplectic Geometry
This book arises from the INdAM Meeting "Complex and Symplectic Geometry", which was held in Cortona in June 2016. Several leading specialists, including young researchers, in the field of complex and symplectic geometry, present the sta...
Anna Bella Geiger: Native Brazil/Alien Brazil
A long-needed appraisal of the abstractions, mail art and conceptual work of Anna Bella Geiger, one of postwar Brazil's unsung pioneers Brazilian artist Anna Bella Geiger (born 1933) was one of the first artists to engage in abstract art in Brazil...
Beatriz Milhazes: Avenida Paulista
A compendious celebration of the exuberant, multilayered paintings and prints of Beatriz Milhazes Published with Museu de Arte de São Paulo. This is the most comprehensive book to date on Beatriz Milhazes, featuring many previously unpublished pai...
Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough
A sweeping look at the history of the artist collective whose graphic poster designs helped define the visual culture of AIDS activism Gran Fury (1988-95) was a New York-based activist artist collective that emerged from ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to ...
Nijkamp and Parnham's Principles of Immunopharmacology
Principles of Immunopharmacology provides a unique source of essential knowledge on the immune response, its diagnosis and its modification by drugs and chemicals. The 4th edition of this internationally recognized textbook has been revised to inc...
Afro-Atlantic Histories
A colossal, panoramic, much-needed appraisal of the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic territories across six centuries Published with Museu de Arte de São Paulo. Named one of the best books of 2021 by Artforum Afro-Atlantic Histories brings togethe...
Lectures in Algebraic Combinatorics
Capturing Adriano Garsia's unique perspective on essential topics in algebraic combinatorics, this book consists of selected, classic notes on a number of topics based on lectures held at the University of California, San Diego over the past few d...
