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• Writing (about) ancient Lives: scholarship, definitions and concepts / Koen De Temmerman
• Ex uno fonte multi rivuli? Unity and multiplicity in Hellenistic biography / Tiziano Dorandi
• Life of Homer / Suzanne Saïd
• Nepos' Life of Atticus and Nicolaus' Life of Caesar and the genre of political biography in the age of Augustus / Rex Stem
• Biography and Praise in Trajanic Rome: Tacitus' Agricola and Pliny's Panegyricus / Christopher Whitton
• Plutarch's Parallel Lives / Aristoula Georgiadou, Michele A. Lucchesi
• Plutarch: Lives of the Caesars (Galba, Otho) and Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes / Luc Van der Stockt
• Types of life-writing in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars and Illustrious Men / Dennis Pausch
• The Alexander Romance / Corinne Jouanno
• The Biographer as Literary Artist: Form and Content in Philostratus' Apollonius / Adam M. Kemezis
• Lucian: Satirical and Idealising Lives (Peregrinus, Alexander, Demonax) / Graham Anderson
• What are Bioi/Vitae? Generic self-consciousness in ancient biography / Sean A. Adams
• Diogenes Laertius and philosophical lives / Stephen White
• Augustine's Confessions as Autobiography / Michael Stuart Williams
• Solitude and Biography in Jerome's Life of Hilarion / Jason König
• A Bishop's Biography: Eusebius of Caesarea and the Life of Constantine / James Corke-Webster
• Ancient Biographies of Statesmen / Jacqueline Klooster
• Sophists / Kendra Eshleman
• Philosophers and their Neoplatonic Lives: Problems and Paradigms / Graeme Miles
• Individual and collected lives in Antiquity / Jeffrey Beneker
• Holy men: Wonderworkers, apostles and saints / Danny Praet, Marc Van Uytfanghe
• Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity / Koen De Temmerman, Danny Praet
• Monastic Lives / Mark Edwards
• Syriac Biography / Muriel Debié
• Arabic Biography / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts
• Coptic Life Stories / Arietta Papaconstantinou
• Armenian Biography in Late Antiquity / S. Peter Cowe
• Biographical monuments: Displaying selves and lives in Ancient Egypt / Elizabeth Frood
• Engraved lives: Biographical material in epigraphical sources / Christof Schuler, Florian R. Forster
• Popular biography / Ioannis M. Konstantakos
• Depicted lives: The role of the visual arts in sophistic self-representation / Zahra Newby
• Triumphant lives: portraits, statues and triumphal arches in imperial Rome / Eric R. Varner
• Byzantine Biography / Martin Hinterberger
• Roman Biography in the Medieval West: Did Classical Texts Facilitate Complex Literary Portraits in the Middle Ages? / Lars Boje Mortensen
• Ancient Biography and the Italian Renaissance: Old Models and New Developments / Thomas Hendrickson
• Ancient Biography in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Enrica Zanin
• After-Lives: Biographical Receptions of the Greek and Roman Poets in the Twentieth Century / Nora Goldschmidt
• Isocrates' Evagoras: The educational ends of the 'first' biography in Classical Greece / Takis Poulakos
• Jewish biography / Joseph Geiger
• Christian biography / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
• Fifth-century preliminaries / Christopher Pelling
• Xenophon of Athens / Noreen Humble

Biography is one of the most widespread literary genres worldwide. Biographies and autobiographies of actors, politicians, Nobel Prize winners, and other famous figures have never been more prominent in book shops and publishers' catalogues. This Handbook offers a wide-ranging, multi-authored survey on biography in Antiquity from its earliest representatives to Late Antiquity. It aims to be a broad introduction and a reference tool on the one hand, and to move significantly beyond the state-of-the-art on the other. To this end, it addresses conceptual questions about this sprawling genre, offers both in-depth readings of key texts and diachronic studies, and deals with the reception of ancient biography across multiple eras up to the present day. In addition, it takes a wide approach to the concept of ancient biography by examining biographical depictions in different textual and visual media (epigraphy, sculpture, architecture) and by providing outlines of biographical developments in ancient and late antique cultures other than Graeco-Roman. Highly accessible, this book aims at a broad audience ranging from specialists to newcomers in the field. Chapters provide English translations of ancient (and modern) terminology and citations. In addition, all individual chapters are concluded by a section containing suggestions for further reading on their specific topic.
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• Mill on the liberty of thought and discussion / Christopher Macleod
• The classic arguments for free speech 1644-1927 / Vincent Blasi
• The truth justification for freedom of speech / William P. Marshall
• Autonomy and free speech / Catriona Mackenzie and Denise Meyerson
• Freedom of expression and democracy / Ashutosh Bhagwat and James Weinstein
• Freedom of speech and human dignity / Dieter Grimm
• Economic perspectives on free speech / Daniel Hemel
• Freedom of speech and public reason / Wojciech Sadurski
• What is speech? : the question of coverage / Frederick Schauer
• Proportionality and limitations on freedom of speech / Grégoire Webber
• Freedom of speech in international law / Michael Hamilton
• The structure of a free speech right / Stephen Gardbaum
• Positive free speech : a democratic freedom / Andrew T. Kenyon
• Speaking back / Katharine Gelber
• Defamation law, Sullivan and the shape of free speech / Andrew T. Kenyon
• Privacy and speech / Ioanna Tourkochoriti
• Free speech and elections / Joo-Cheong Tham and K.D. Ewing
• When is speech that causes unlawful conduct protected by freedom of speech? : the case of the First Amendment / Geoffrey R. Stone
• The internet and social media / Gregory P. Magarian
• Parades, picketing, and demonstrations / Timothy Zick
• Insult of public officials / Christoph Bezemek
• Freedom of expression in the workplace / Cynthia Estlund
• Music and art / Mark Tushnet
• Free speech and commercial advertising / Frederick Schauer
• Hate speech / Alon Harel
• Pornography / Caroline West
• Religious speech / Gautam Bhatia
• Glorifying censorship? : anti-terror law, speech and online regulation / Eliza Bechtold and Gavin Phillipson
• Freedom of media / Dieter Grimm

Freedom of speech is central to the liberal democratic tradition. It touches on every aspect of our social and political system and receives explicit and implicit protection in every modern democratic constitution. It is frequently referred to in public discourse and has inspired a wealth of legal and philosophical literature. The liberty to speak freely is often questioned; what is the relationship between this freedom and other rights and values, how far does this freedom extend, and how is it applied to contemporary challenges? The Oxford Handbook on Freedom of Speech seeks to answer these and other pressing questions. It provides a critical analysis of the foundations, rationales, and ideas that underpin freedom of speech as a political idea, and as a principle of positive constitutional law. In doing so, it examines freedom of speech in a variety of national and supra-national settings from an international perspective. Compiled by a team of renowned experts in the field, this handbook features original essays by leading scholars and theorists exploring the history, legal framework and controversies surrounding this tennet of the democratic constitution.
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• Introduction / Maria Polinsky
• Chechen and Ingush / Erwin R. Komen, Zarina Molochieva, Johanna Nichols
• Lak / Victor A. Friedman
• Dargwa / Nina Sumbatova
• Avar / Diana Forker
• Archi / Marina Chumakina
• Abaza and Abkhaz / Brian O'Herin
• Iron Ossetic / David Erschler
• Segmental Phonetics and Phonology in Caucasian Languages / Gašper Beguš
• Word Stress in Languages of the Caucasus / Lena Borise
• North Caucasus: Regions and their Demography / Konstantin Kazenin
• Correlatives in Languages of the Caucasus / Ömer Demirok, Balkız Öztürk
• The Nominal Domain in Languages of the Caucasus / Balkız Öztürk, Ömer Eren
• Agreement in Languages of the Caucasus / Steven Foley
• Ergativity in the Caucasus / Dmitry Ganenkov
• Ellipsis in Languages of the Caucasus / David Erschler
• Binding and indexicality in the Caucasus / Dmitry Ganenkov, Natalia Bogomolova
• Information Structure in Languages of the Caucasus / Diana Forker
• The Northwest Caucasian Languages / Peter Arkadiev, Yury Lander
• Languages and Sociolinguistics of the Caucasus / Nina Dobrushina, Michael Daniel, Yuri Koryakov
• Tone and Intonation in Languages of the Caucasus / Lena Borise
• Nakh-Dagestanian Languages / Dmitry Ganenkov, Timur Maisak
• Kartvelian (South Caucasian) Languages / Yakov G. Testelets
• Indo-European Languages of the Caucasus / Oleg Belyaev
• Megrelian / Alexander Rostovtsev-Popiel

The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus is an introduction to and overview of the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Though the languages of the Caucasus have often been mischaracterized or exoticized, many of them have cross-linguistically rare features found in few or no other languages. This handbook presents facts and descriptions of the languages written by experts. The first half of the book is an introduction to the languages, with the linguistic profiles enriched by demographic research about their speakers. It features overviews of the main language families as well as detailed grammatical descriptions of several individual languages. The second half of the book delves more deeply into theoretical analyses of features, such as agreement, ellipsis, and discourse properties, which are found in some languages of the Caucasus. Promising areas for future research are highlighted throughout the handbook, which will be of interest to linguists of all subfields.
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• Advertising Millie-Christine, or the making of the Two-Headed Nightingale / Remi Chiu, Dana Gorzelany-Mostak
• "Have You Played Atari Today?"Music and audience in an early video game advertising campaign / William Gibbons -- / Jay Beck
• Popular music, advertising, and “selling out” / Bethany Klein -- / Joanna Love
• Taking the Gift Out and Putting It Back In: From Cultural Goods to Commodities / Timothy D. Taylor
• The persistence of memory: Structural functions of music in commercial jingles / Ron Rodman
• The Sounds of Coca-Cola—On “cola-nization” of sound and music / Nicolai Jørgensgaard Graakjær
• From the subliminal to the ridiculing: How U.S. campaign ads use music to evoke four basic and two compound emotions basic and two compound emotions / Paul Christiansen
• Exploiting the Frontier: Advertising and Western Music / Mariana Whitmer
• Medievalism goes commercial: The epic as register in contemporary media / David Clem
• Toward a utilitarian theory of consumer response to advertising music / Lincoln G. Craton
• Music as advertisement: Capturing and sustaining attention in the attention economy era / Hubert Léveillé Gauvin
• Hearing, remembering, and branding: Setting strategic directions for sonic branding research / Vijaykumar Krishnan, James J. Kellaris
• Sensory marketing in advertising and service environments / Bertil Hultén
• Sound in the context of (multi)sensory marketing / Klemens Knoeferle, Charles Spence
• Commercial Sound: A Review of the Effects of Popular Music in Advertising / David Allan
• Designing Identities: Sound and Music in Automotive and Appliance Branding / Ken McLeod
• Music with the message in mind: Cognitive responses to background music in advertising / Cynthia Fraser
• Audiovisual advertising: Effects of music on psychological transportation and narrative persuasion / Madelijn Strick
• Musical congruity in advertising: Established and emerging research themes / Steve Oakes, Morteza Abolhasani
• Methods for testing the emotional effects of music in advertising and brand communication / Daniel Müllensiefen -- / Reba A. Wissner
• As heard on...: The changing musical language of Presidential campaign ads / Justin Patch -- / Kate Galloway
• Music and Sound Design as Propaganda in <i>Hell-Bent for Election</i> / Lisa Scoggin
• Advertising the English glee to women, 1750-1800 / Bethany Blake
• Blank music: Marketing virtual instruments / James Buhler
• Music supervision and branding in an era of “convergent advertising” / Tim J. Anderson
• Fitting tunes: Selecting music for television commercials / Peter Kupfer
• Music and institutional advertising: Consolidated Edison and Echoes of New York / Rika Asai
• "All those homes beyond the microphone": Advertising, domesticity, and early country music variety programs in the 1930s / David VanderHamm
• About a b(r)and: Geffen Records, Universal, and the (posthumous) packaging of Nirvana / Laurel Westrup
• Loathsome Deutschtum? Wagner and advertising as propaganda in American industrial films of the 1930s and 1940s / Julie Hubbert
• Introduction: Music and advertising: Production, text, and reception / Siu-Lan Tan, Ron Rodman, James Deaville
• Contextual marketing: Analyzing networks of musical context in the Digital Age / Willem Strank
• Music and the formal structures of contemporary action film trailers / Catrin Watts
• Creating big-screen audiences through small-screen appeals: Film marketing on television through music and sound / James Deaville
• Selling “David Bowie”: Commercial appearances and the developing Bowie star image / Katherine Reed
• The ad creation process: From production to reception / Lawrence Harte
• Organized labor and commercial advertising: Music unions and J. Walter Thompson / Jessica Getman
• Jazz works: Music, advertising, and labor in Toronto, 1955-1980 / Mark Laver
• The Conquest of Kool: Jazz, Tobacco, and the Rise of Market Segmentation / Dale Chapman

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising is an essential guide to the crucial role that music plays in relation to the audio or audiovisual advertising message, from the perspectives of its creation, interpretation, and reception. The book's unique three-part organization reflects this life cycle of an advertisement, from industry inception to mass-mediated text to consumer behaviour. Experts well versed in the practice, analysis, and empirical studies of the commercial message have contributed to the collection's forty-two chapters, which collectively represent the most ambitious and comprehensive attempt to date to address the important intersections of music and advertising. Handbook chapters are self-contained yet share borders with other contributions within a given section and across the major sections of the book, so readers can either study one topic of particular interest or read through to gain an understanding of the broader issues at stake. Within the book's Introduction, each editor has provided an overview of the unifying themes for the section for which they were responsible, with brief summaries of individual contributions at the beginnings of the sections. The lists of recommended readings at the end of chapters are intended to assist readers in finding further literature about the topic. An overview of industry practices by a music insider is provided in the Appendix, giving context for the three parts of the book.
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• The Politics of the Constitution / David Brian Robertson
• The Role of Money in Politics / Robert E. Mutch
• Religion and American Politics / Daniel K. Williams
• Ethnic Politics in American History / James Connolly
• The Three Regimes of American Transportation Policy / Gregory L. Schneider
• Social Welfare Policy / Joel Blau
• Federal Educational Policy / Wayne J. Urban
• Civil Rights Policy / Mark Rush
• Colonial Politics / Stephen Conway
• The Early Republic / John L. Brooke
• Democrats and Whigs: The Second American Party System / Harry L. Watson
• Party Politics and National Policy, Post-World War II / Daniel DiSalvo
• Political Advertising and the Media / Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Eunji Kim
• Tax and Fiscal Regimes in the United States: The Long Swings / Elliot Brownlee
• Communications and Technology Policy / Heidi Tworek
• Environmental and Energy Policy / Brian Black
• Immigration Policy: Restrictive and Expansive Traditions / Daniel J. Tichenor, Kathryn Miller
• The Long Shadow of Prohibition: U.S. Drug and Alcohol Policy in the 20th Century / Scott Martin
• Defense and Foreign Policy / Timothy J. Lynch
• The Politics of Slavery and the Coming Civil War / John Ashworth
• Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction / Erik B. Alexander
• Third Parties / Bob McMath
• Gender and Political Citizenship / Eileen McDonagh, Danielle M. Thomsen
• Health Policy / Christy Ford Chapin
• Gilded Age and Progressive Era / Paula Baker
• Politics of Depression and War / Jason Scott Smith
• The Rules of the Game / Jack Reynolds
• Voting Rights / Morgan Kousser

American political and policy history has revived since the turn of the twenty-first century. After social and cultural history emerged as dominant forces to reveal the importance of class, race, and gender within the United States, the application of this line of work to American politics and policy followed. In addition, social movements, particularly the civil rights and feminism, helped rekindle political and policy history. As a result, a new generation of historians turned their attention to American politics. Their new approach still covers traditional subjects, but more often it combines an interest in the state, politics, and policy with other specialties (urban, labor, social, and race, among others) within the history and social science disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of American Political History incorporates and reflects this renaissance of American political history. It not only provides a chronological framework but also illustrates fundamental political themes and debates about public policy, including party systems, women in politics, political advertising, religion, and more. Chapters on economy, defense, agriculture, immigration, transportation, communication, environment, social welfare, health care, drugs and alcohol, education, and civil rights trace the development and shifts in American policy history. This collection of essays by 29 distinguished scholars offers a comprehensive overview of American politics and policy.
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• Introduction: "Placing the Past" / Suzanne Conklin Akbari
• Boccaccio's Early Romances / Warren Ginsberg
• Chaucer's Petrarch: 'enlumnyed ben they' / Ronald L. Martinez
• Dante and the Medieval City: How the Dead Live / David L. Pike
• The Romance of the Rose : Allegory and Lyric Voice / David F. Hult
• Challenging the Patronage Paradigm: Late-Medieval Francophone Writers and the Poet-Prince Relationship / Deborah McGrady
• Ovid: Artistic Identity and Intertextuality / Jamie C. Fumo
• Chaucer and the Textualities of Troy / Marilynn Desmond
• Historiography: Nicholas Trevet's Transnational History / Suzanne Conklin Akbari
• Grammar and Rhetoric, c. 1100-c. 1400 / Rita Copeland
• Philosophy, Logic and Nominalism / Fabienne Michelet, Martin Pickavé
• 'Gaufred, deere maister soverain': Chaucer and Rhetoric / James Simpson
• The Poetics of Trespass and Duress: Chaucer and the Fifth Inn of Court / Eleanor Johnson
• Medicine and Science in Chaucer's Day / E. Ruth Harvey
• Logic and Mathematics: The Oxford Calculators / Edith Dudley Sylla
• Wycliffism and its After-Effects / Stephen E. Lahey
• "Anticlericalism, " Inter-clerical Polemic and Theological Vernaculars / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Melissa Mayus, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis
• Chaucer as Image-Maker / Denise Despres
• Chaucer's Travels for the Court / Peter Brown
• 'O Hebraic People!' English Jews and the Twelfth-Century Literary Scene / Ruth Nisse
• Anti-Judaism / Anti-Semitism and the Structures of Chaucerian Thought / Steven F. Kruger
• The Hazards of Narration: Frame-Tale Technologies and the 'Oriental Tale' / Karla Mallette
• Fictions of Espionage: Performing Pilgrim and Crusader Identities in the Age of Chaucer / Suzanne M. Yeager
• Geographesis, or the Afterlife of Britain in Chaucer / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
• Vernacular Authorship and Public Poetry: John Gower / T. Matthew N. McCabe
• Lydgate's Chaucer / Anthony Bale
• Chaucer and Contemporary Courts of Law and Politics: House, Law, Game / Matthew Giancarlo
• Dialogism in Hoccleve / Jonathan M. Newman
• Old Books and New Beginnings North of Chaucer: Revisionary Reframings in the Kingis Quair and the Testament of Cresseid / Iain Macleod Higgins
• At Home in the 'Countour-Hous': Inhabiting Space on Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings / Jonathan Hsy
• Labour and Time / Kellie Robertson
• Books and Booklessness in Chaucer's England / Alexandra Gillespie
• The Role of the Scribe: Genius of the Book / Martha Rust
• Dante and the Author of the Decameron : Love, Literature, and Authority in Boccaccio / Martin Eisner

As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry intersects with contemporary ways of seeing the world, and the place of the subject who lives in it. This Handbook comprises a series of essays by established scholars and emerging voices that address Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean Studies, comparative literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion. The volume paints the field in broad strokes and sections include Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life; Chaucer in the European Frame; Philosophy and Science in the Universities; Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy; and the Chaucerian Afterlife. Taken as a whole, The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer offers a snapshot of the current state of the field, and a bold suggestion of the trajectories along which Chaucer studies are likely to develop in the future.
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• The Early Mendicants / Frances Andrews
• Observant Reform in the Late Middle Ages / Kathryne Beebe
• Monastic Interreligious Dialogue / Fabrice Blée
• Monastic Art, Sacred Space, and the Mediation of Religious Experience / Thomas E. A. Dale
• Archaeological Evidence for the Study of Early Monasticism / Stephen J. Davis
• Asceticism before Monasticism: What the First Monks Owed to the Early Christian Churches / Richard Finn OP
• Monasticism in the Byzantine Empire / Peter Hatlie
• Russia (988 to 1917) / Scott M. Kenworthy
• The Eastern Traditions Today: Russian and Romanian Orthodox / Scott M. Kenworthy
• Landscape, Land Use, and the Environment / Richard Oram
• Prayer / Rachel Fulton Brown
• Monasteries, Society, Economy, and the State in the Byzantine Empire / Kostis Smyrlis
• Monasticism in the Oriental Orthodox Churches / Samuel Rubenson
• Holy Men and Women of the Desert / David Brakke
• The Archaeology of Monastic Households / Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom
• Monasticism in Early Ireland / Westley Follett
• Friendship, Family, and Community / Julian P. Haseldine
• Sickness and Healing / Peregrine Horden
• Spirituality and Prayer in the Eastern Traditions / Andrew Louth
• The United States / Margaret M. McGuinness
• Monastic Narrative Practices / Katherine Allen Smith
• The Benedictines / Scott G. Bruce
• The Literature of Early Western Monasticism / Columba Stewart OSB
• The Anglican Tradition / Adam D. McCoy OHC
• The Literature of Early Eastern Monasticism / Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony
• The Eastern Traditions Today: Greek Orthodox / Chrysostom Koutloumousianos
• The Dissolution of the Monasteries: England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales / James G. Clark
• The Architecture of the Ascetic Body / Lynda L. Coon
• Latin America / Bonar L. Hernández
• Asia / Matteo Nicolini-Zani
• Religious Women: Secular Canonesses and Beguines / Sigrid Hirbodian
• Early Modern France / Daniel-Odon Hurel
• The Military Orders: Templars and Hospitallers / Jochen Burgtorf
• Early Modern Germany / Edeltraud Klueting
• The Protestant Tradition / Inge Mager
• The Early Atlantic World / Dominique Deslandres
• Africa South of the Sahara / Catherine Higgs
• Early Modern Italy and Spain / Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
• Introduction. Towards a New Monastic History / Bernice M. Kaczynski
• Contemporary Monasticism: Challenges and Opportunities / Michael Casey OCSO
• The 'New Monasticism' / Douglas E. Christie, Bernadette Flanagan
• The Cistercians / Anne E. Lester
• Lectio Divina: Opening to God's Word / Gregory J. Polan OSB
• Musical and Liturgical Practice / James Grier

The Handbook takes as its subject the complex phenomenon of Christian monasticism. It addresses, for the first time in one volume, the multiple strands of Christian monastic practice. Forty-four essays consider historical and thematic aspects of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and Anglican traditions, as well as contemporary 'new monasticism'. The essays in the book span a period of nearly two thousand years-from late ancient times, through the medieval and early modern eras, on to the present day. Taken together, they offer, not a narrative survey, but rather a map of the vast terrain. The intention of the Handbook is to provide a balance of some essential historical coverage with a representative sample of current thinking on monasticism. It presents the work of both academic and monastic authors, and the essays are best understood as a series of loosely-linked episodes, forming a long chain of enquiry, and allowing for various points of view. The authors are a diverse and international group, who bring a wide range of critical perspectives to bear on pertinent themes and issues. They indicate developing trends in their areas of specialisation. The individual contributions, and the volume as a whole, set out an agenda for the future direction of monastic studies. In today's world, where there is increasing interest in all world monasticisms, where scholars are adopting more capacious, global approaches to their investigations, and where monks and nuns are casting a fresh eye on their ancient traditions, this publication is especially timely.
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• The New Testament / Markus Bockmuehl, Evangeline Kozitza
• Roman Catholicism / Anne McGowan
• Eastern Orthodoxy / Mary B. Cunningham
• Lutheranism / Kirsi Stjerna
• Anglicanism / Martyn Percy
• Reformed and Dissenting Protestants / Andrew R. Holmes
• The Holy Family / Holly Taylor Coolman
• Gabriel and the Angels / David Lyle Jeffrey
• Bethlehem and the Census / Leroy A. Huizenga
• The Magi and the Star / D. H. Williams
• The Inn, the Manger, the Swaddling Clothes, the Shepherds, and the Animals / Jody Vaccaro Lewis
• The Dating of Christmas: The Early Church / Paul F. Bradshaw
• The Winter Solstice and other Celebrations of the Season / Daniel Gifford
• St Nicholas to Santa Claus / Adam C. English
• Trees and Decorations / David Bertaina
• Gifts and Charity / Ellen M. Litwicki
• Children and Childhood / Marcia J. Bunge
• Food and Drink / Paul Freedman
• Carols and Music to 1900 / Tova Leigh-Choate
• Carols and Music since 1900 / Todd Decker
• Paintings / Barbara von Barghahn
• The Middle Ages / Kati Ihnat
• Plays / Frances Clemson
• Poetry / Emma Mason
• Fiction / Natalie McKnight
• Film and Television / Mark Connelly
• Bethlehem and the Middle East / Elizabeth Monier
• Catholic Europe / Nadine Cretin
• Germany and Scandinavia / Joe Perry
• Russia / Francesca Silano
• The United Kingdom / Martin Johnes
• The United States / Daniel Vaca
• The Reformation and Early Modern Periods / Katrina Jennie-Lou Wheeler
• Africa / Joel Cabrita
• Asia / Joseph Tse-Hei Lee
• Latin America and the Caribbean / David Thomas Orique O.P.
• Public Holidays and the Law / Richard W. Garnett, Jackson C. Blais
• Commercialism and Consumerism / John Schmalzbauer
• Secularity / David Nash
• Culture Wars / Gerry Bowler
• The Nineteenth Century / Timothy Larsen
• The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries / Christopher Ferguson
• The Old Testament / John Barton
• Jesus Christ and the Incarnation / Katherine Sonderegger
• The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Virgin Birth / Katherine G. Schmidt

The Oxford Handbook of Christmas provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of all aspects of Christmas across the globe, from the specifically religious to the purely cultural. The contributions are drawn from a distinguished group of international experts from across numerous disciplines, including literary scholars, theologians, historians, biblical scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, art historians, and legal experts. The volume provides authoritative treatments of a range of topics, from the origins of Christmas to the present; decorating trees to eating plum pudding; from the Bible to contemporary worship; from carols to cinema; from the Nativity Story to Santa Claus; from Bethlehem to Japan; from Catholics to Baptists; from secularism to consumerism. Christmas is the biggest celebration on the planet. Every year, a significant percentage of the world's population is draw to this holiday-from Cape Cod to Cape Town, from South America to South Korea, and on and on across the globe. The Christmas season takes up a significant part of the entire year. For many countries, the holiday is a major force in their national economy. Moreover, Christmas is not just a modern holiday, but has been an important feast for most Christians since the fourth century and a dominant event in many cultures and countries for over a millennium. The Oxford Handbook of Christmas provides an invaluable reference point for anyone interested in this global phenomenon.
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• Why a Book on Danish Politics? / Peter Munk Christiansen, Jørgen Elklit, Peter Nedergaard
• Municipalities and Regions: Approaching the Limit of Decentralization? / Kurt Houlberg, Niels Ejersbo
• Corruption and Bureaucratic Reform: 'Getting to Denmark'? / Mette Frisk Jensen, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
• Corporatism: Exaggerated Death Rumours? / Peter Munk Christiansen
• Governments in Action: Consensual Politics and Minority Governments / Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Asbjørn Skjæveland
• Classes and Politics: A Changing Relationship / Gitte Sommer Harrits, Rune Stubager
• Gender and Politics: The Limits of Equality Politics / Christina Fiig, Birte Siim
• Dynamic Stability: The Anchors of Voting Behaviour / Kasper M. Hansen, Rune Stubager
• Local Elections: Localized Voting Within a Nationalized Party System / Ulrik Kjær
• The Constitution / Jens Peter Christensen
• Referendums in Denmark: Influence on Politics / Derek Beach
• Interest Groups: A Democratic Necessity and a Necessary Evil / Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz
• The Social Democratic Party: From Exponent of Societal Change to Pragmatic Conservatism / Rasmus Mariager, Niels Wium Olesen
• The Liberal Party: From Agrarian and Liberal to Centre-Right Catch-All / Flemming Juul Christiansen
• The Danish People's Party: Centre Oriented Populists? / Karina Kosiara-Pedersen
• The Red-Green Alliance: Is it Red or Green? / Henrik Bech Seeberg, Ann-Kristin Kölln
• In War and Peace: Security and Defence Policy in a Small State / Anders Wivel
• Foreign Policy: New Directions in a Changing World Order? / Henrik Larsen
• Coordination for the European Union: A Strong and Stable Institution / Mads Dagnis Jensen, Peter Nedergaard
• Economic Policy: From Disequilibrium to Flexicurity / Torben M. Andersen
• Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and Denmark: Unity or Community? / Ulrik Pram Gad
• Welfare State Policies: From the Beginning towards an End? / Klaus Petersen
• The Danish Labour Market Model: Is the Bumblebee Still Flying? / Laust Høgedahl
• Agricultural and Fisheries Policy: Towards Market Liberalism / Carsten Daugbjerg, Peder Andersen, Henning Otte Hansen, Brian H. Jacobsen
• Immigration and Immigrant Integration Policy: Public Opinion or Party Politics? / Kristina Bakkær Simonsen
• Development Policy: From Consensus to Contention? / Anne Mette Kjær
• Education Policy: Power, Conflict, and Cooperation / Susanne Wiborg
• Environmental, Energy, and Climate Policy: From Energy Supply to Climate Gasses / Peter Birch Sørensen
• Health Policy: The Submerged Politics of Free and Equal Access / Lars Thorup Larsen
• Polity, Politics, and Policies: A Reconsideration / Peter Munk Christiansen, Jørgen Elklit, Peter Nedergaard
• The Monarch: Head of State and National Symbol / Jes Fabricius Møller
• Research Policy: The Strength of Transformation / Kaare Aagaard, Niels Mejlgaard
• The Party System: Open yet Stable / Christoffer Green-Pedersen, Karina Kosiara-Pedersen
• Danish Public Opinion: Stability, Change and Polarization / Peter Thisted Dinesen, Rune Slothuus, Rune Stubager
• Media and Politics: The Danish Media System in Transformation? / Thomas Olesen
• Danish European Union Policies: Sailing Between Economic Benefits and Political Sovereignty / Mads Dagnis Jensen, Peter Nedergaard
• The Electoral System: Fair and Well-Functioning / Jørgen Elklit
• Electoral Turnouts: Strong Social Norms of Voting / Kasper M. Hansen
• The Parliament (Folketinget): Powerful, Professional, and Trusted? / Helene Helboe Pedersen
• The Government and the Prime Minister: More than Primus Inter Pares? / Martin Ejnar Hansen
• Organizing Central Government: A Pragmatic Meritocracy? / Caroline Howard Grøn, Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen

The Oxford Handbook of Danish Politics provides the most comprehensive and thorough English language book on Danish politics ever written. It features chapters by 50 leading experts who have contributed extensively to the field they write about. Why is Denmark an interesting topic for a Handbook? In some respects, Danish political institutions and political life are very similar to that of other small, North European countries such as the other Scandinavian countries and Netherland. However, in other respects, Danish politics is interesting in its own right. For instance, Denmark has a world record in minority governments. According to standard scholarly knowledge, this should result in unstable governments and a bad economy. This is not the case, however, since Denmark has a rather stable political system and a strong and robust economy among the strongest in Europe. How? The Danes have continued reservations towards the EU despite close to 50 years of EC/EU membership, and the Danes rejected the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Still, the EU issue is handled in ways that do not call for large political battles. How? A third example is that Denmark used to be known as a tolerant and liberal society; its Jews were almost all saved during German occupation during WWII, Denmark was the first country to free pornography, and the first country to formally register same-sex couples. Yet recent Danish politics has also been associated with xenophobia and anti-Muslim sentiments. Why?
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• Epicurus and the Epicurean School / Tiziano Dorandi
• Politics and Society / Geert Roskam
• Plutarch / Michael Erler
• Lucretius / Monica R. Gale
• Philodemus and the Herculaneum Papyri / Mario Capasso
• Diogenes of Oenoanda / Pamela Gordon
• Friendship / Phillip Mitsis
• Poetics / Michael McOsker
• Rhetoric / Clive Chandler
• Horace and Virgil / Gregson Davis
• Seneca and Epicurus / Margaret Graver
• Atomism / David Konstan
• Postmodernism / Eva Marie Noller, W. H. Shearin
• Epicurus and Epicureanism in Rabbinic Literature, Maimonides, and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov / Gabriel Danzig
• Early Christianity / Ilaria Ramelli
• Materialism and Early Modern "Natural History of Man" / Ann Thomson
• Early Modern Epicureanism: Gassendi and Hobbes in Dialogue on Psychology, Ethics, and Politics / Gianni Paganini
• Thomas Jefferson / Carl J. Richard
• Epicureanism and Utilitarianism / A. A. Long
• Epicurus in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche / James I. Porter
• Epistemology / Gisela Striker
• Hedonism / Voula Tsouna
• Epicurus in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Thought: A "Freedom of Pleasures"? / Thomas M. Kavanagh
• Theology / Emidio Spinelli, Francesco Verde
• Humanist Dissemination of Epicureanism / Ada Palmer
• Language / Enrico Piergiacomi
• Cicero / Carlos Lévy
• Psychology / Elizabeth Asmis
• Voluntary Action and Responsibility / Walter Englert
• Cosmology and Meteorology / Daryn Lehoux
• Death / Stephen E. Rosenbaum

The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the soul during many periods of history, has at the same time been a source of inspiration to figures as diverse as Vergil, Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, and Bentham. This volume offers authoritative discussions of all aspects of Epicurus's philosophy and then traces out some of its most important subsequent influences throughout the Western intellectual tradition. Such a detailed and comprehensive study of Epicureanism is especially timely given the tremendous current revival of interest in Epicurus and his rivals, the Stoics. The thirty-one contributions in this volume offer an unmatched resource for all those wishing to deepen their knowledge of Epicurus' powerful arguments about happiness, death, and the nature of the material world and our place in it. At the same time, his arguments are carefully placed in the context of ancient and subsequent disputes, thus offering readers the opportunity of measuring Epicurean arguments against a wide range of opponents-from Platonists, Aristotelians and Stoics, to Hegel and Nietzsche, and finally on to such important contemporary philosophers as Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams. The volume offers separate and detailed discussions of two fascinating and ongoing sources of Epicurean arguments, the Herculaneum papyri and the inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda. Our understanding of Epicureanism is continually being enriched by these new sources of evidence and the contributors to this volume have been able to make use of them in presenting the most current understanding of Epicurus's own views. By the same token, the second half of the volume is devoted to the extraordinary influence of Epicurean doctrines, often either neglected or misunderstood, in literature, political thinking, scientific innovation, personal conceptions of freedom and happiness, and in philosophy generally. Taken together, the contributions in this volume offer the most comprehensive and detailed account of Epicurus and Epicureanism available in English.
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• Biblical Interpretation and Kyriarchal Globalization / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
• Retrieving the History of Women Bible Interpreters / Joy A. Schroeder
• Neoliberal Feminist Scholarship in Biblical Studies / Esther Fuchs
• Neoliberalism and Queer Theory in Biblical Readings / Teresa J. Hornsby
• Biblical Border Slippage and Feminist Postcolonial Criticism / Judith E. McKinlay
• Gender and the Heterarchy Alternative for Re-Modeling Ancient Israel / Carol Meyers
• A Multidimensional Approach in Feminist Ecological Biblical Studies / Anne Elvey
• Sexuality, Stoning, and Supersessionism in Post-World War II Biblical Epic Films / Adele Reinhartz
• Noah Narratives, Gender Issues, and the Hollywood Hermeneutic / Anton Karl Kozlovic
• Gaming with Rahab and the Spies / Charles M. Rix
• Mediating Dinah's Story in Film / Rhonda Burnette-Bletsch
• Ecofeminist Biblical Hermeneutics for Cyborgs and the Story of Jezebel / Arthur W. Walker-Jones
• Exploring Biblical Women in Music / Helen Leneman
• Teaching the Bible and Popular Media as Part of Contemporary Rape Culture / Beatrice J. W. Lawrence
• The Bible, Women, and Video Games / Linda S. Schearing
• Queer Bible Readings in Global Hermeneutical Perspective / Jeremy Punt
• A Queer Critique of Looking for "Male" and "Female" Voices in the Hebrew Bible / Caryn Tamber-Rosenau
• Examining Scripture in Light of Trans Women's Voices / Katy E. Valentine
• Toward an African Feminist Ethics and the Book of Proverbs / Funlọla O. Ọlọjẹde
• Feminist Egalitarian Biblical Interpretation and the Christian Right / Karen Strand Winslow
• Queering Delilah with Critical Theory and Gendered Bible Hermeneutics / Caroline Blyth
• Sarah and Hagar in Art and Interfaith Dialogue / Aaron Rosen
• Animal Studies, Feminism, and Biblical Interpretation / Ken Stone
• Hagar in Nineteenth-Century Southern Women's Novels / Vanessa L. Lovelace
• Norwegian Muslim and Christian Feminists Reading the Hagar Narratives / Anne Hege Grung
• Reading the Bible from Below in the Era of Globalization / Rainer Kessler
• Intertextual Femininity in the Book of Proverbs and the Dao de Jing / David A. Schones
• Justifying (Feminist) Biblical Studies in a Neoliberal Age / John W. Fadden
• Bathsheba in Contemporary Romance Novels / Sara M. Koenig
• Catholic Androcentric Bible Translations as Global Missionary Tools? / Carol J. Dempsey OP
• Lament as Womanist Healing in Times of Global Violence / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
• European Feminist Biblical Scholarship in the Neoliberal Era / Hanna Stenström
• On the Development of a Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics of Migration / Susanne Scholz
• The Bible and Human Rights from a Feminist Perspective / Carole R. Fontaine
• Feminist Bible Translations in African Contexts / Dora R. Mbuwayesango
• Sexual Diversity and Bible in Africa / Sarojini Nadar
• Empire and Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Korea / Yani Yoo

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible brings together thirty-seven essential essays written by leading international scholars, examining crucial points of analysis within the field of feminist Hebrew Bible studies. Organized into four major areas - globalization, neoliberalism, media, and intersectionality, the essays provide vibrant, relevant, and innovative contributions to the field. The topics of analysis focus heavily on gender and queer identity, with essays touching on African, Korean, and European feminist hermeneutics, womanist and interreligious readings, ecofeminist and animal biblical studies, migration biblical studies, the role of gender binary voices in evangelical-egalitarian approaches, oand the examination of scripture in light of trans women's voices