Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers
and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating�…

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transform itself into the center of a worldwide empire? Lesley B. Cormack argues that the�…

The Arabic influences on early modern occult philosophy The Arabic Influences on Early
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In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank
Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval�…

" Disknowledge": knowing something isn't true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge:
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Machiavelli in the British Isles reassesses the impact of Machiavelli's The Prince in sixteenth-
century England and Scotland through the analysis of early English translations produced�…

1. I should like here to record my debt to a number of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-
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or palace, northern manuscripts reflect social and religious changes and regional social�…

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