“…Divided into thematic sections (the printed book trade; the book as artefact; patrons, purchasers and producers; and the cultural capital of print), it considers the social, historical, and cultural context of the rise of print; the printers of the period; the significant Latin trade and its effect on the English market; paper, types, bindings, and woodcuts and other decorative features which create the packaged book; and the main sponsors and consumers of the printed book: merchants, the lay clientele, secular and religious clergy, and the two Universities, as well as secular colleges and chantries…”

“…But historians have focused on their political accomplishments to the exclusion of their religious life, going so far as to call them "purely secular contrivances." When religion is considered, the subjects are usually saints, heretics, theologians, and religious leaders, thereby ignoring the vast majority of those who lived in the communes. …”
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“…Daniel Schwartz shows that in fashioning Spinoza into 'the first modern Jew,' generations of Jewish intellectuals - German liberals, East European maskilim, secular Zionists, and Yiddishists - have projected their own dilemmas of identity onto him, reshaping the Amsterdam thinker in their own image. …”

“…This book presents a theologically grounded understanding of academic freedom that builds on, extends, and completes the prevailing secular understanding for Catholic higher education…”
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“…Castration is a lively history of the meaning, function, and act of castration from its place in the early church to its secular reinvention in the Renaissance as a spiritualized form of masculinity in its 20th century position at the core of psychoanalysis…”

“…In this journey, the tensions that modern philosophy in the West describes in the rationalization and secularization processes of modernity are interpreted and incorporated into the sociological and educational analysis for Physical Education. …”

“…Important sub-themes include nationalism and religion, the secularization and institutionalization of traditional values, multiple Protestant ethics, and long continuities in history. …”