Reform in the Balance

Reform in the BalancePresents the intellectual milieu of mid Tang China, particularly the conservative defense of literary pursuits and cultural tradition in the face of political and social uncertainty. Anthony DeBlasi offers a remapping of China's intellectual landscape during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Recreating a world of intense philosophical debate, influenced by political uncertainty and social disorder, he reveals the logic behind the period's

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This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies

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and Blanchot’s passionate meditation on literature and language

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Historians and literary scholars explore the rise of parliament in the historical imagination of Tudor and early Stuart England

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