Modern English
Creed Royal Water CREED ROYAL WATER by Creed Edt Spray
Fragrance for MenContinuing his family's long tradition and English roots, Master Perfumer Olivier Creed created Royal Water in honor of Princess Diana.
Swearing in English
Swearing is an everyday part of the language of most speakers of modern English. This corpus informed account of swearing describes swearing and its social function, with a particular focus on the relationship between swearing and abuse.
Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Opening up an area overlooked by Renaissance scholarship, this collection of essays historicizes and theorizes 'forgetting' in English literary texts.
Knowledge and Practice in English Medicine, 1550-1680
This is a major synthesis of the knowledge and practice of early modern English medicine set in its social and cultural contexts. The book vividly maps out some central areas such as remedies (and how they were made credible) and how and why surgeons worked upon the body.
Commentary on Aristotle's Politics
Offering the first complete translation into modern English of Aquinas’ unfinished commentary on Aristotle’s Politics, this translation follows the definitive Leonine text of Aquinas and reproduces in English those passages of William of Moerbeke’s exacting yet elliptical transla
Beowulf
Dick Ringler's deceptively simple translation captures the rhythm, movement, and power of the original Old English poem while employing a fluid modern English style and a relatively spare vocabulary.







