Roman politics during the final decades of the Late Republic was a vicious process of gamesmanship wherein lives of people, their families and friends were at the mercy of the gamesmen. Cicero’s public and political gamesmanship reflects the politics, . . .

Long before written record, men and women have known the healing properties of herbs and medicinal arts have been practiced even before the first civilizations emerged. This ancient tradition of treating infirmity with herbal medicants was especially . . .

Engaged Buddhism is a modern reformist movement. It stirs debate concerning the scriptural and philosophical origins of Buddhist social activism. Some scholars argue there is continuity between traditional Buddhism and a rationale for social activism . . .

This study examines the understanding of death and damnation in late medieval England, as seen in the Holkham Bible, and various examples of medieval imagery. It suggests that lay society was not only aware, but held a heightened sense of urgency for . . .

In Herman Melville's last and arguably most misunderstood novel, The Confidence Man: His Masquerade, the author leaves his readers with a grim and hopeless outlook regarding the future prosperity of America. The once religiously assured Melville criti . . .

The Iconoclast Controversy and especially the life and activities of the last iconoclast Patriarch John VII Grammatikos of Constantinople provide a unique case study in historical narrative. Little is known about John Grammatikos who was one of the mo . . .

How did German-language writer Franz Kafka--living in an era rife with spiritual alienation--express what he referred to as his "spiritual existence?" Further, how did Kafka co-mingle his two ultimate concerns: the expression of his spiritual existenc . . .

A review of the critical literature on Erica Jong's 1973 novel, Fear of Flying, suggests a lack of consideration of Isadora Wing's uses of deception both within, and by way of, the text. The aim of this paper is to make up for that perceived lack, by . . .

This thesis explores the mobility and identity formation of the characters Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea through the lens of human geography and cultural geography, and general space and place studies. This thesis s . . .