Biography

The condemnation of Modernism by Pope Pius X in 1907 shook Roman Catholic theology to...

This book deals with Johannes Scottus Eriugena, an Irish scholar at the Court of Charles...

This is the first full-length, serious biography of Frederick Temple, an eminent, nineteenth-century figure and...

This book, by a leading Reformation scholar, is the only comprehensive introduction to Zwingli's thought...

Alexander Forbes, Bishop of Brechin from 1847 to 1875, was the first member of the...

This is the first detailed study of the life and thought of Shaykh Mahmud Shalt=ut...

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings...

What happens when novelists write about their own lives directly, in memoirs and autobiographies, rather...

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings...

Edith Penrose was a remarkable woman and distinguished scholar who lived through, and witnessed at...

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a...

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent...

October 2017 marks five hundred years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the...

This volume presents a many-faceted view of the Oxford philosopher R. G. Collingwood. At its...

'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event...

Using forty years of evidence-based research as its core, Family Engagement with Schools: Strategies for...

Jean Bodin was a figure of great importance in European intellectual history, known as a...

'The glories of the Age of Anne' -- the union of England and Scotland to...

Deirdre David traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time...

Reading George Eliot's work was described by one Victorian critic as 'the feeling of entering...

From her childhood in Whitby to her long old age in Cambridge, the life of...

At the heart of Death and the Author is a dramatic account of D. H....

William Empson was the foremost English literary critic of the twentieth century. He was a...

This volume, the latest in Oxford's edititon of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins,...

Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still to others, few authors defy any single...

Judge Richard Posner is one of the great legal minds of our age, on par...

This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure...

Frances Burney (1752-1840), author Evelina and other novels, was an active diarist and correspondent with...

In the Common Law system, it is the doctrine of "precedent" which courts depend upon,...

The Rise of the Memoir traces the growth and extraordinarily wide appeal of the memoir....

The high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating...

'I am Josephus...I myself fought against the Romans' In August of AD 70 the city...

Adrian likely flourished in the early fifth century. His sole-surviving work is the Introduction to...

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, known as the Hyde Edition, is the most complete scholarly...

This is the first scholarly edition of Johnson's letters to appear for forty years. It...

The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and...

This is the first critical biography of Xavier Marmier. The celebrity of Marmier was such...