Lybeaus Desconus

Lybeaus DesconusMid 14th century Middle English version of the classic narrative of the handsome and mysterious young outsider who comes to the court of King Arthur to prove himself worthy of joining Arthur's knights. The young knight is tested in a variety of ways, and learns both chivalric codes of conduct and the truth of his parentage.

the book explores Chinese foreign policies in international organizations

they cast themselves as agents of knowledge and progress

the country offering a place of freedom and possibility beyond Victorian Britain

Blum explains how our current understanding of health care posits it as a sort of state of permanent emergency

Hierarchies and exclusion in humanitarianism analyses – through diverse disciplinary perspectives and methods - how hierarchies

imagining futures ranging from an end-of-the-world deluge to violent revolution to feminist utopia

its cast has been catapulted to celebrity and references to it proliferate throughout popular culture

This book is the definitive study of how skin was debated

original oral history interviews

The book of Job was among the most popular books of study for Jewish scholars in the Middle Ages

Using oral history it explores the interaction between cultural representations of men and women in the war

This book proposes concrete solutions to confront the populist wave and the rise of “illiberal democracy