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Why did people talk so much about avarice in late Renaissance France, nearly a century before Moliere's famous comedy, L'Avare? As wars and economic crises ravaged France on the threshold of modernity, avarice was said to be flourishing as never before. Yet by the late sixteenth century, a number of French writers would argue that in some contexts, avaricious behaviour was not straightforwardly sinful or harmful. Considerations of social rank, gender, object pursued, time, and circumstance led some to question age-old beliefs. Traditionally reviled groups (rapacious usurers, greedy lawyers,...

Self-taught Georgia artist Eddie Owens Martin (1908-86), known as St. EOM, created a visionary art site called Pasaquan in the mid-1950s in Marion County, Georgia. Covering seven acres, this evocative and fanciful site has captured the imaginations of thousands of visitors.

University of Pennsylvania East Asian History Professor Francis Hilary Conroy (1919-2015) sought to diminish conflict and foster reconciliation in his academic research, publication, teaching, service to the historical profession, and personal conduct. This anthology by his students and colleagues reflects his values and goes beyond the extensive memorializations already tendered to Professor Conroy by his professional organization, the Association for Asian Studies. This book is intended as an enduring tribute in a scholarly medium he would have appreciated.