John Reeves

Defeated on the battlefield, Robert E. Lee soon faced the wrath of vengeful northerners, including indictment for treason just weeks after the Civil War ended. This book tells the forgotten story of Lee's indictment and the slow process by which his memory was transformed from traitor to American icon.

The Forgotten Case Against an American Icon

The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee

William Francis Finlason

With Numerous Notes, and an Introductory Dissertation on the Nature and Use of Legal History, the Rise and Progress of Our Laws, and the Influence of the Roman Law in the Formation of Our Own

Reeves' History of the English Law, from the Time of the Romans to the End of the Reign of Elizabeth [1603]

Annette Yoshiko Reed

Across the ancient and medieval literature of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, one finds references to the antediluvian sage Enoch. Both the Book of the Watchers and the Astronomical Book were long known from their Ethiopic versions, which are preserved as part of Mashafa Henok Nabiy ('Book of Enoch the Prophet')—an Enochic compendium known in the West as 1 Enoch. Since the discovery of Aramaic fragments among the Dead Sea Scrolls, these books have attracted renewed attention as important sources for ancient Judaism. Among the results has been the recognition of the surprisingly long and varied tradition surrounding Enoch. Within 1 Enoch alone, for instance, we find evidence for intensive literary creativity. This volume provides a comprehensive set of core references for easy and accessible consultation. It shows that the rich afterlives of Enochic texts and traditions can be studied more thoroughly by scholars of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity as well as by scholars of late antique and medieval religions. Specialists in the Second Temple period-the era in which Enochic literature first appears-will be able to trace (or discount) the survival of Enochic motifs and mythemes within Jewish literary circles from late antiquity into the Middle Ages, thereby shedding light on the trajectories of Jewish apocalypticism and its possible intersections with Jewish mysticism. Students of Near Eastern esotericism and Hellenistic philosophies will have further data for exploring the origins of 'gnosticism' and its possible impact upon sectarian currents in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Those interested in the intellectual symbiosis among Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Middle Ages-and especially in the transmission of the ancient sciences associated with Hermeticism (e.g., astrology, theurgy, divinatory techniques, alchemy, angelology, demonology)-will be able to view a chain of tradition reconstructed in its entirety for the first time in textual form. In the process, we hope to provide historians of religion with a new tool for assessing the intertextual relationships between different religious corpora and for understanding the intertwined histories of the major religious communities of the ancient and medieval Near East.

Sources From Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Enoch from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Volume I

Vol. 2: From the reign of Edward 1. to the reign of Edward 4

Reeves' History of the English Law

With numerous notes, and an introductory dissertation ... by W. F. Finlason

John Reeves's History of the English Law, from the Time of the Romans to the End of the Reign of Elizabeth

Vol. 1: From the time of the Romans to the end of the reign of Henry 3

From the time of the Romans to the end of the reign of Henry III

A History of the Law of Shipping and Navigation

From the Time of the Romans to the End of the Reign of Elizabeth

Reeves' History of the English Law: From the time of the Romans to the end of the reign of Henry III

Reeves' History of the English Law: From the reign of Edward I to the reign of Edward IV

From the reign of Edward I. to the reign of Edward IV

From the reign of Henry III. to the reign of Edward II

In the spring of 1864, President Lincoln feared that he might not be able to save the Union. The Army of the Potomac had performed poorly over the previous two years, and many Northerners were understandably critical of the war effort. Lincoln assumed he'd lose the November election, and he firmly believed a Democratic successor would seek peace immediately, spelling an end to the Union. A Fire in the Wilderness tells the story of that perilous time when the future of the United States depended on the Union Army's success in a desolate forest roughly sixty-five miles from the nation's capital.

The First Battle Between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

A Fire in the Wilderness

From the Time of the Saxons, to the End of the Reign of Philip and Mary [1558]

History of the English Law

This study is an important contribution to the scholarly reassessment of the roles played by Second Temple Judaism, Jewish Christian sectarianism, and classical gnosis in the formulation and development of Syro-Mesopotamian religious currents.

Syro-Mesopotamian Gnosis and Jewish Traditions

Heralds of That Good Realm

From the reign of Edward IV. to the reign of Edward VI

John Reeves

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