To call something 'monstrueux' in the mid-sixteenth century is, more often than not, to wonder at its enormous size: it is to call to mind something like a whale. By the late seventeenth 'monstrueux'
Rights were once thought to derive from the God-given nature of man. But today, human rights and religion are sometimes in conflict. The universal claims made for rights can put them at odds with the
Rights were once thought to derive from the God-given nature of man. But today, human rights and religion are sometimes in conflict. The universal claims made for rights can put them at odds with the
Lulu is a walking, talking object of sexual desire. Each of the first four acts of the play sees her married to a different man, each of whom dies at the end. In the fifth act, Lulu has become a prost
This volume tracks a Montaigne ‘in transit' all the way from the genesis and production of his Essais and travel journal in the 1570s-1590s to their diffusion and reception from the 1580s up till the
This study explains how the current U.S. missile defense system works, as well as current and potential plans to modernize the system, and the authors offer recommendations for future evolution of the
