...Rowan Williams; Jeffrey M. Perl Wortley John , The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers: A Select Edition and Complete English Translation ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 ), 652 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

... for teaching him smart writing and thinking well. Mitchell Cohen learned his lesson. Peter Burke doi 10.1215/0961754X-7899796 John Watkins, After Lavinia: A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017), 274 pp. On the one hand, interdynastic marriage...

...Francis X. Clooney, SJ Gray John , Seven Types of Atheism ( New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2018 ), 176 pp. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 0 6 John Gray, Seven Types of Atheism (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), 176...

...Glenn S. Holland Barton John , A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book ( New York : Viking , 2019 ), 640 pp. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 11 6 using everything from handwritten notes to cut and pastes...

... scholarship on the concept of the via media in Donne's sermons can be found in Shami, John Donne and Conformity , and “Squint-Eyed, Left-Handed, Half-Deaf” ; Miller-Blaise, “Vehement Poetry” ; Gimelli-Martin, “Experimental Predestination in Donne's Holy Sonnets” ; and Grierson, “John Donne...

... no contentions or arguments. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Aemelia Lanyer John Milton gender hermeneutics contextualism Like the second installment of this study, published in the April 2021 issue of Common Knowledge , 1 this third part treats a case of religious poets...

...James Trilling Harris Alexandra , Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists, and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper ( New York : Thames and Hudson , 2010 ), 320 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...G. Thomas Tanselle Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman, John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century , 2 vols. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), 1536 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008...

...Yaakov Mascetti Targoff Ramie , John Donne, Body and Soul ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2008 ), 213 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Robin Fox, The Tribal Imagination...

...Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy Duke University Press 2002 THE FUTURE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS In Light of the Visit of Pope John Paul II to the Holy Land Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy The celebration of the Jubilee Year...

... itself not through the authority of Revelation alone, but also through recourse to the “very Facts of Scripture.” —William Kolbrener Deborah E. Harkness, John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Cambridge...

...Natalie Zemon Davis Jason Scott-Warren, Sir John Harington and the Book as Gift (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 286 pp. Duke University Press 2007 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Reviel Netz, Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan...

...Helen Cooper Karen A. Winstead, John Capgrave's Fifteenth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), 233 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Peter Malkin, ed., Basil Bunting on Poetry (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins...

...W. Caleb McDaniel In common usage, quietism is often conflated with passivity, and pacifism is often equated with quietism. As a result, pacifism has often been confused with passivity. In the antebellum United States, John Brown and other militant abolitionists who endorsed the use of violent...

...J. H. Elliott; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Lynch John , New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2012 ), 384 pp. ...

...Michael Braddick Abstract This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics” explores the place of legal agency in the political thought and activities of John Lilburne, one of the leading English Levellers of the seventeenth century. Protection of his rights as a freeborn...

...?” At least our language is being enriched by neologisms en route to wisdom. —John Boardman Jacques Derrida and Maurizio Ferraris, A Taste for the Secret, trans. Giacomo Donis (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2001), 168 pp. Derrida’s recent religious turn might have been predicted...

... realized, although it is easy to imbue the painters with profound motives that, I think, they would never have recognized or even approved. “How does iconicity work?” At least our language is being enriched by neologisms en route to wisdom. —John Boardman Jacques Derrida and Maurizio Ferraris...