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How the west was won : essays on the literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian middle ages for Burcht Pranger
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How the west was won : essays on the literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian middle ages for Burcht Pranger

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"Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco..." : notes on a sonnet of Petrarch / Peter Cramer
Moments of indecision, sovereign possibilities : notes on the tableau vivant / Frans-Willem Korsten
History and the vertical canon : Calvin's Institutes and Beckett / Ernst van den Hemel
Christ's case and John Donne, "seeing through his words" : the stigma of martyrdom transfigured / Anselm Haverkamp
Playing with history : the satirical portrayal of the medieval papacy on an eighteenth-century deck of playing cards / Joke Spaans
From east to west : Jansenists, Orientalists, and the eucharistic controversy / Alastair Hamilton
Labouring in reason's vineyard : Voltaire and the allegory of enlightenment / Madeleine Kasten
The search for the canon and the problem of body and soul / Piet de Roy
Music at the limits : Edward Said's musical elaborations / Rokus de Groot
The canonisation of the medieval past : England and the continent compared / Peter Raedts
Scholarship of literature and life : Leopold Zunz and the invention of Jewish culture / Irene Zwiep
Censorship and canon : a note on some medieval works and authors / Leen Spruit
Does the canon need converting? A meditation on Augustine's Soliloquies, Eriugena's Periphyseon, and the dialogue with the religious past / Willemien Otten
Between pedagogy and democracy : on canons and aversion to conformity in ordinary language philosophy / Asja Szafraniec
On the significance of disagreement : Stanley Cavell and ordinary language philosophy / Paola Marrati
Fast forward, or : the theologico-political event in quick motion (miracles, media, and multitudes in St. Augustine) / Hent de Vries
Tangere autem corde, hoc est credere : Augustine on 'touching' the numinous / Giselle de Nie
The fame of fake, Dionysius the Areopagite : fabrication, falsification, and the 'cloud of unknowing' / Bram Kempers
Two female apostolic mystics : Catherine of Siena and Madame Jeanne Guyon / Bernard McGinn
De obitu Valentiniani : Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the canonization of Ambrose of Milan on baptism by desire / Marcia L. Colish
The 'whole Abelard' and the availability of language / Babette Hellemans
Tempus longum...locus asper... : chiaroscuro in Hugh of Saint Victor / Ineke van 't Spijker
Obedience simple and true : Anselm of Canterbury on how to defeat the devil / Arjo Vanderjagt
The monastic challenge : remarks / Helmut Kohlenberger.

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