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Book SynopsisThis second edition of Historical Dictionary of Estonia covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, glossary, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.Trade ReviewThe second edition, updating the first after a decade, continues in the publisher's ‘Historical Dictionaries of Europe’ series. These ubiquitous dictionaries all follow the same arrangement, providing a few maps, a chronology, and an introductory essay followed by the dictionary section, political appendixes, a glossary, and a bibliography. As the editor points out, the revised dictionary section offers more ‘persons, places, and events’ than the 2004 edition. Miljan describes himself as a native of Estonia who returned to his home country, and his introduction brings events up to March 2015. The entries, necessarily brief, cover a galaxy of information. For example, one learns that Neeme Järvi (Detroit Symphony Orchestra emeritus music director) is Estonian and largely responsible for introducing the music world to the work of Estonian musicians. Entries shed light on Estonian exiles, WW II, the German occupation, displaced persons, Finno-Ugric peoples, and many historical topics pertaining to the USSR. . . .The bibliography…provides a convenient way to verify the spelling of names. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic audiences and general readers. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsEditor’s Foreword, Jon Woronoff Preface Reader’s Note Acronyms and Abbreviations Maps Chronology Introduction THE DICTIONARY Appendixes Heads of Government Foreign Ministers Estonian Participation in Elections Glossary Bibliography About the Author

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Book SynopsisIn July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. By the time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French colleagues dubbed him 'le plus parisien des Américains' --the most Parisian American. Now, Karnow returns to the France of his youth, perceptively and wittily illuminating a time and place like none other. Karnow came to France at a time when the French were striving to return to the life they had enjoyed before the devastation of World War II. Yet even during food shortages, political upheavals, and the struggle to come to terms with a world in which France was no longer the mighty power it had been, Paris remained a city of style, passion, and romance. Paris in the Fifties tran

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Book SynopsisThroughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark Mazower sheds light on what has been called the tinderbox of Europe, whose troubles have ignited wider wars for hundreds of years. Focusing on events from the emergence of the nation-state onward, The Balkans reveals with piercing clarity the historical roots of current conflicts and gives a landmark reassessment of the region’s history, from the world wars and the Cold War to the collapse of communism, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the continuing search for stability in southeastern Europe.

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Book SynopsisCornelius Tacitus brilliantly chronicles the moral decline and rampant civil unrest in the Roman Empire in a period when the earliest foundations of modern Europe were being laid. The Annals commence in a.d. 14, at the death of Augustus, recounting the reigns of Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius, and Nero, and conclude in a.d. 68, the year of Nero’s suicide. The Histories document the tumultuous year a.d. 69, when Emperors Galba, Otho, and Vitellius all perished in quick succession, ushering in Vespasian’s ten-year reign. According to historian Will Durant, “[We must] rank Tacitus among the greatest. . . . The portraits he draws stand out more clearly, stride the stage more livingly than any others in historical literature.” This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes newly commissioned endnotes.

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Book SynopsisWho were these intermarried Germans? Why did Hitler and Goebbels give in to the protesters and release two thousand Jews? Resistance of the Heart is a powerful response to these questions. Using interviews with survivors and thousands of Nazi records never before examined in detail, Nathan Stoltzfus has reconstructed an inspiring story...Trade Review"Stoltzfus has written a powerful, exhaustively researched report on that rare episode of open, successful resistance ... Interwoven here are the poignant, compelling histories of couples from mixed marriages who opposed the Nazis – and survived the regime." * Publishers Weekly *"Gripping. . . Stoltzfus persuasively argues that the Rosenstrasse protest contradicts the standard German claim that they could do nothing to stop their government, and indeed most of the German Jews who married non-Jewish Germans survived." * New York Times *"Here is human interest interwoven with scholarship." * New Statesman, book of the year 1997 *"Stoltzfus is a careful and subtle historian and the result of his labours is no less sensational and thoughtprovoking." * The Sunday Telegraph *"Stoltzfus has created a cogent account, made all the more compelling by the often gripping personal stories of the participants. He pays glowing tribute to their superhuman tenacity ... moreover, he builds a convincing argument." * Jerusalem Post *"An event buried in the past is resurrected here to shed light on the nature and character of the Nazi regime, the Holocaust, and the German people themselves ... An important work that refracts larger political issues and ethical questions through the prism of a unique event." * Kirkus Reviews *"Stoltzfus is the first to investigate the events leading to the protest systematically and in depth, not only on the basis of archival material but, more importantly perhaps, on the basis of interviews with surviving participants and eyewitnesses ... and it is to Dr. Stoltzfus's great credit that he has saved from oblivion some of these unsung heroes ... Their memory, not least owing to Dr. Stoltzfus's study, will live on ... Fascinating and moving." * Walter Laqueur, from the foreword *Table of ContentsI. Hitler's theory of power II. Stories of Jewish-German courtship III. The politics of race, sex, and marriage IV. Courage and intermarriage V. Mischlinge: "A particularly unpleasant occurrence" VI. Society versus law: German-Jewish families and social restraints on Hitler VII. Society and law: German-Jewish families and German collaboration with Hitler VIII. Kristallnacht: Intermarriages and the lessons of Pogrom IX. At war and at home: Mischlinge in Hitler's army X. Racial hygiene, Catholic protest, and noncompliance, 1939-41 XI. The Star of David decree: The official story and the intermarried experience XII. The price of compliance and the destruction of Jews XIII. Plans to clear the Reich of Jews, and the obstacles of women and "total war" XIV. Courageous women of Rosenstrasse XV. Protest, rescue, and resistance

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Book SynopsisMany historians focus on the growing anti-Semitism of the period 1848 to 1933, culminating in the Nazi Party's rise to power and its programme of genocide, but Peter Pulzer emphasizes the evolution of the ethnic identity, social roles and political activities of German Jews.

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Book SynopsisBy the spring of 1947, less than two years after Nazi Germany's defeat, some 250,000 Jewish refugees remained in the displaced persons camps of Germany, Italy, and Austria. This title collects research on displaced persons (DPs) in Europe in the period after World War II and before the establishment of Israel.

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the different ethnic and religious groups that inhabit Bosnia, and looks at the political and cultural upheaval that have been a continuing part of the region's history.Trade Review"An acute, readable introduction to why and how racial history has been the bane of the Balkans and why it need not be." -Village Voice Literary Supplement "Quite simply one of the best books of historical scholarship written for a general audience in the last decade." -New York Newsday "By far the best available guide to the fatal steps to catastrophe ... Thoughtful, lucid, and deeply informed." -New York Review of Books "An extraordinary book--the best available in English on the background of the Bosnian war." -Warren Zimmermann,former U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia, in the National Interest "This book is essential for anyone to understand the present conflict ...a splendid work of synthesis on a very complex subject, written with insight and sympathy: the best, indeed the only informed book on a history that has become both topical and tragic." -Sunday Telegraph

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Table of ContentsChronology Introduction: Reading Hölderlin in the Age of Difference: Eric L. Santner HYPERION, OR THE HERMITT IN GREECE Translated by Willard R. Trask Adapted by David Schwarz POEMS Da ich ein Knabe war.../When I was a boy... (C. Middleton) Empedokles/Empedocles (M. Hamburger) Sophokles/Sophocles (M. Hamburger) Wurzel alles Übels/The Root of All Evil (M. Hamburger) Mein Eigentum/My Possessions (M. Hamburger) Heidelberg/Heidelberg (C. Middleton) Lebenslauf/The Course of Life (M. Hamburger) Der Abschied (Zweite Fassung)/The Farewell (Second Version) (M. Hamburger) Natur und Kunst oder Saturn und Jupiter/Nature and Art or Saturn and Jupiter (M. Hamburger) Dichterberuf/The Poet's Vocation (C. Middleton) Stimme des Volks (Zweite Fassung)/Voice of the People (Second Version) (M. Hamburger) Chiron/Chiron (M. Hamburger) Blödigkeit/Timidness (M. Hamburger) Ganymed/Ganymede (C. Middleton) Menons Klagen um Diotima/Menon's Lament for Diotima (M. Hamburger) Brod und Wein/Bread and Wine (M. Hamburger) Hälfte des Lebens/Half of Life (R. Sieburth) Der Winkel von Hahrdt/The Shelter at Hahrdt (R. Sieburth) Lebensalter/Ages of Life (R. Sieburth) Wie wenn am Feiertage.../As on a holiday... (M. Hamburger) Am Quell der Donau/At the Source of the Danube (M. Hamburger) Die Wanderung/The Migration (R. Sieburth) Germanien/Germania (M. Hamburger) Der Rhein/The Rhine (C. Middleton) Friedensfeier/Celebration of Peace (M. Hamburger) Der Einzige (Erste Fassung)/The Only One (First Version) (R. Sieburth) Patmos (Dem Landgrafen von Homburg)/Patmos (For the Landgrave of Homburg) (M. Hamburger) Patmos (Bruchstücke der späteren Fassung)/Patmos (Fragments of the Later Version) (M. Hamburger) Andenken/Remembrance (R. Sieburth) Der Ister/The Ister (M. Hamburger) Mnemosyne/Mnemosyne (R. Sieburth) Reif sind.../The fruits are ripe... (R. Sieburth) Wenn nemlich der Rebe Saft/When the sap... (R. Sieburth) Meinest du es solle gehen.../Do you think... (R. Sieburth) Vom Abgrund nemlich.../We set out from the abyss... (R. Sieburth) Griechenland (Dritte Fassung)/Greece (Third Version) (M. Hamburger) Der Frühling/Spring (M. Hamburger) Endnotes Bibliography

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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ernst Behler Notes on the Texts PREFACE TO THE SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY Translated by A.V. Miller ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES IN OUTLINE Translated by Steven A. Taubeneck Preface Introduction (A) The Science of Logic Preliminary Concepts 1. The Doctrine of Being (A) Quality (a) Being (b) Determinate Being (c) Being for Itself (B) Quantity (a) Pure Quantity (b) Quantum (c) Degree (C) Measure II. The Doctrine of Essence (A) The Pure Categories of Reflection (a) Identity (b) Difference (c) Ground (B) Appearance (a) Existence (b) Appearance (c) Relation (C) Reality (a) Substance (b) Causality (c) Reciprocal Interaction III. The Doctrine of the Concept (A) The Subjective Concept (a) The Concept as Such (b) Judgment (c) Syllogism (B) The Object (a) Mechanism (b) Chemism (c) Teleology (C) The Idea (a) Life (b) Cognition (c) The Absolute Idea (B) The Philosophy of Nature Preliminary Concepts I. Mathematics II. Inorganic Physics (A) Mechanics (B) Elementary Physics

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Book SynopsisThomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. This is a collection of his shorter works. "Death in Venice", is a poetic meditation on art and beauty, where the dying composer Aschenbach (modelled on Gustav Mahler) becomes fixated by the young boy Tadzio.Table of ContentsForeword: Harold Bloom Introduction: Frederick A. Lubich NOVELLAS Tonio Kroger Translated by David Luke Tristan Translated by David Luke Death in Venice Translated by David Luke The Blood of the Walsungs Translated by Helen Tracey Lowe-Porter Mario and the Magician Translated by Helen Tracey Lowe-Porter The Tables of the Law Translated by Helen Tracey Lowe-Porter ESSAYS Freud and the Future Translated by Helen Tracey Lowe-Porter A Brother Germany and the Germans

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Book SynopsisA collection of the work of Uwe Johnson. It includes "Speculations about Jakob", a Faulknerian novel; selections from "Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl"; Anniversaries II: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl"; and the writer's essay on the "Anniversaries".Table of ContentsIntroduction: Alexander Stephan Translated by Jan van Heurck Speculations about Jakob Translated by Ursule Molinaro Trip into the Blue, 1960 Translated by John Cumming How Anniversaries Came to Be Written Translated by Jan van Heurck From Anniversaries Translated by Leila Vennewitz From Anniversaries II Translated by Leila Vennewitz and Walter Arndt

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Book SynopsisLindsey Hughes was Professor in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, UK.Trade Review"'More than a testimony to Hughes' remarkable spirit, this is the best book in English on the subject, illuminated by a deep knowledge of Russia's imperial past, wide in scope yet admirable in its concision, and infused with a subtlety of interpretation free of the overheated, romantic treatment that has clouded most previous accounts.' The Times Literary Supplement"Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations, dates, spellings and transliteration; List of Illustrations; Family Trees; Introduction; 1. Romanov Roots, 1613-45: Michael; 2. The Pious Tsars, 1645-96: Alexis, Fedor and Ivan V; 3. Transformation, 1682-1725: Peter the Great; 4. The Age of Empresses and Palace Revolutions, 1725-62: Catherine I, Peter II, Anna, Ivan VI, Elizabeth, Peter III; 5. Philosopher on the Throne, 1762-96: Catherine II; 6. The Napoleonic Era, 1796-1825: Paul and Alexander I; 7. Consistent Autocracy, 1825-55: Nicholas I; 8. Reform and Reaction, 1855-94: Alexander II and Alexander III; 9. The Last Romanov: Nicholas II (i) 1894-1913; 10. From Celebration to Annihilation: Nicholas II (ii) 1913-1918; 11. Postscript, 1918-2007; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe main theme of this text is the importance of gender to mainstream history and, specifically, to the major themes of 19th century European history, such as nationalism, liberalism and socialism.

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Book SynopsisThe Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.

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Book SynopsisThe ideas of these writers are seen not only as words on the page but as key elements in the social fabric, concepts like paternalism and authoritarianism old and new are examined as they affected the writers and their responses to the revolution in France.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"... a very detailed life-story of this extraordinary woman ... Cathy Porter has written a sad, serious, and very readable book." Tamara Deutscher, Marxism Today (on the first edition).

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Book Synopsis1956 was a year of political drama. It saw the Anglo-French seizure of the Suez Canal, Nikita Khruschev's Secret Speech, denouncing Stalin, unrest across Eastern Europe and the Russian invasion of Hungary. This book discusses the convulsions which enveloped the Communist Party of Great Britain in the aftermath of Khruschev's revelations. It reprints the text of The Reasoner for the first time in 60 years. It tells the story of this journal and its editors: John Saville and E.P. Thompson.Table of Contents1. Foreword; 2. John McIlroy, Introduction; 3. Documents; Harry Pollitt, The Twentieth Congress of the CPSU and the Role of Stalin; The Lessons of the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU; Rajani Palme Dutt, The Great Debate; John Saville, Problems of the Communist Party; Rajani Palme Dutt, New Times, New Measures; EP Thompson, Winter Wheat in Omsk; George Matthews, A Caricature of Our Party; Khrushchev's Report; Derek Kartun, Ideas and Methods of Work; 4. The Reasoner, no 1; Editorial Comments; Why We Are Publishing; Taking Stock; Ken Alexander, Democratic Centralism; EP Thompson, Reply To George Matthews; Correspondence; AL, What Is Socialism?; John McLeish, An Open Letter From a 'Premature Anti-Stalinist'; K Hughes, Where Do We Stand Now?; R Cocker, Needed: A Party of a New Type; Documents; Letter from Steve Nelson, Daily Worker (New York); Statement by the Editorial Board, Jewish Life; Andrzej Braun, A Polish Self-Examination, Nova Kultura; 5. The Reasoner, no 2; Editorial; The Case For Socialism; Ronald L Meek, What Should We Do About The Reasoner?; Doris Lessing, A Letter To the Editors; Hyman Levy, The Place of Unorthodoxy in Marxism; Bertolt Brecht, To Posterity; John Saville, World Socialism Restated: A Comment; Readers' Round-Up; Correspondence; J Lyons, Democratic Centralism; P Jordan, Discussion and Democracy; Lawrence Daly, 'The Long Road Back'; Rodney Hilton, Labour-Communist Relations; Jim Johnson, Beware of Attempts to Stifle the Discussion; E Sleight, Marxism: Science and Dogma; P Shelley, A Lesson from History; Documents; Helena Eilstein, Problems of Free Discussion in Poland; An American Assessment of the Stalin Era; 6. Documents; Communist Party Executive Committee Statement on The Reasoner; The Reasoner: Statement by the Communist Party Executive Committee; Statement by the Executive Committee of the Communist Party on The Reasoner; 7. The Reasoner, no 3; Editorial; EP Thompson, Through the Smoke of Budapest; Sheila Lynd, Leslie Sewell, Ursula Cox, Three Letters on The Reasoner; Derek Kartun, Seeing the Trees for the Wood; Democratic Centralism; GDH Cole, Reflections; An American View, Democracy and Dissent; PH, On Democratic Centralism; 'De-Stalinisation'; Ronald L Meek, Notes From a Polish Diary; K Simonov, On Fadeyev; Ursula Wassermann, Hungary and Socialist Democracy; John Saville, An Open Letter to R Page Arnot; Bob Davies, Some Notes on the 1937-38 Purges; Correspondence, J Young, E Martin, Stella Jull, MD, Doris Lessing, and Others; EP Thompson and John Saville, Statement by the Editors; 8. Ronald Meek, The Marxist-Leninist's Song; 9. John McIlroy, John Saville and Stalinism: An Incomplete Emancipation?; 10. Paul Flewers, EP Thompson and the Soviet Experience; 11. Chronology; 12. Index.

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Book SynopsisLetters, reports, campaign diaries and the chronicles of Geoffrey le Baker and Chandos Herald document the life and dazzling exploits of the legendary Black Prince.Edward of Woodstock, eldest son of Edward III, known as the Black Prince, is one of those heroes of history books so impressive as to seem slightly unreal. At sixteen he played a leading part in the fighting at Crécy; at twenty-six he captured the king of France at Poitiers; and eleven years later he restored Pedro of Castile to histhrone at the battle of Najera. His exploits were chronicled by Jean Froissart, but Froissart was writing three or four decades after the events he describes. There are other sources much closer to events, and it is on these that the present volume draws. Most immediate are the reports sent home by the prince's companions-in-arms and his own letters, which graphically convey the hardships and difficulties of campaigning, its dangers and sheer fatigue. These are followed by campaign diaries and the story of Crécy and other exploits of the prince's from Geoffrey le Baker's chronicle (c.1358-60), itself drawing on similar letters and diaries. Finally there is the chronicle of Chandos Herald, which shows the prince as he appeared to an English writer in the 1380s. Each of the sources is discussed in detail in the introductions to the extracts. RICHARD BARBER's books on the age of chivalry include The Knight and Chivalry, Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, King Arthur: Hero and Legend and Arthurian Legends. He has also written the Companion Guide to Gascony and the Dordogne, the background to so many of the Black Prince's exploits, and the Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe.Trade ReviewAn invaluable collection of contemporary source material- we see events through the eyes of the men who made them. * TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT *

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Book SynopsisAn interwoven study in many ways refreshing and original... A good book, the first major product of one of the more vital debates in recent early medieval scholarship. HISTORY A major re-statement of the nature of Anglo-Norman warfare, with special emphasis on the role of the familia regis, the King's military household.This study of the battles waged between 1066 and 1135 by the Anglo-Norman kings of England - William the Conqueror, William Rufus and Henry I -is a major restatement of the nature of medieval warfare in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Bringing together the two major trends in recent medieval military history, the study of military organisations and the study of campaigns, Stephen Morillo illuminates the interrelationship of military organisation and social and political structures and brings many new perceptions to bear, such as the central role of the familia regis, the King's military household. The roles of armies and castles and the normal activities of warfare are examined to show why sieges were far more common than pitched battles. Siege and battle tactics are analysed in the context of social and political influences, administrative structures and campaign patterns, and a connection is proposed in most pre-modern warfare between government strength and infantry quality.Dr STEPHEN MORILLOteaches at Wabash College, Indiana. He has published numerous articles on Anglo-Norman warfare.Trade ReviewFill[s] a gap in scholarship by offering a coherent and readable study of Anglo-Norman warfare... something of a milestone in the academic study of medieval warfare in providing a comprehensive account of the whole violent business. He does not study castles, weaponry, tactics or strategy in isolation, but offers an interwoven study which is in many ways refreshing and original... A good book, which will be of great use not just to academics but also to undergraduates, who will find it full of sense and insight. The book is the first major product of one of the more vital debates in recent early medieval scholarship. HISTORY With its coverage of ravaging, logistics and money, [this book] will convey to the reader a genuine understanding of the nature of medieval warfare. HISTORY TODAY Take[s] the study of medieval English warfare considerably forward. * ARCHIVES *Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction. Part 2 Contexts - the world of Anglo-Norman warfare: the institutional context - the miltary system as a branch of government; the social context - feudal society and a warrior aristocracy; the political context - warfare as a tool of policy; the geographical context - the strategic map. Part 3 The Anglo-Norman miltary system: manpower - leadership pools, manpower pools, the composition of armies, the size of armies, ships and sailors; administration - the "familia regis", the fyrd and the feudal hosts, castle ward, supply, engineering, training; demobilization. Part 4 Warfare I - patterns and campaigns: the role of castles; the role of field forces; field forces on campaign - movement, maintenance. Part 5 Warfare II - sieges and battles: seige warfare; battle - general characteristics, individual battles; naval combat; prisoners. Part 6 Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisAncient monuments, legends and folklore interpreted to illuminate the realities of prehistoric Irish belief.The myths and legends of prehistoric Ireland have inspired writers through the ages, down to W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney in our own century, but what do we know of the realities of ancient Irish belief? Daithi O hOgain's book approaches the question by studying archaeological remains such as tumuli, stone henges and circular enclosures and analysing the rich materials that have been handed down both in the great cycles of Irish heroic tales and the humblebut significant survivals of modern folklore, for instance the traditions associated with wells and springs. Drawing evidence from these varied sources, he arrives at a balanced picture of a society and its beliefs which have alltoo often been the subject of conjecture and fancy. CONTENTS Pre-Celtic Cultures . Basic Tenets in the Iron Age . The Druids and their Practices . The Teachings of the Druids . The Society of the Gods . The Rites of Sovereignty . The Triumph of Christianity. DAITHI O HOGAIN was Professor of Folklore at University College Dublin.Trade ReviewAn excellent book... a highly accessible and lively assessment of c ontinuity and change in belief and religion from pre-Celtic times through to the arrival of St Patrick. ...A fine book and to be recommended to a wide readership, especially to all those who think that Irish history started in 1601. * IRISH STUDIES REVIEW *The focus of this book is the evidence for pagan cult systems in ancient Ireland, particularly the period 500BC to AD600...on the whole a thoroughly researched and rigorously referenced study... a useful reference work. * ZEITSCHRFT FUR CELTISCHE PHILOLOGIE *Table of ContentsPre-Celtic cultures; basic tenets in the Iron Age; the Druids and their practices; the teachings of the Druids; the society of the gods; the rites of sovereignty; the triumph of Christianity.

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Book SynopsisAfter the murder of Edmund Ironside in 1016, Canute the Dane seized the crown of Wessex, banishing Edmund's small sons, Edmund and Edward, to Sweden with a `letter of death'.However, their lives were spared and the continental wanderings of the Anglo-Saxon princes began. Gabriel Ronay fills in the years of their exile concluding with Edward's death forty years later, just forty-eight hours after his triumphant return to England.When Edward Ironside was murdered in 1016, Canute the Dane seized the crown of Wessex. The following year, conscious of the threat posed to his rule by Edmund's small sons, Edmund and Edward Ætheling, he banished them to Sweden, with a `letter of death'. The Swedish king, however, spared their lives, and the Continental wanderings of the Anglo-Saxon princes began; their uncertain fate greatly exercised the minds of contemporary English chroniclers. Forty years later the ageing, childless Edward the Confessor learned that his nephew Edward was living in Hungary; he invited him to return home, casting him in a crucial role in the struggle to avert a Norman takeover, but forty-eight hours after his triumphant homecoming he was dead, and the events that were to lead to the Norman conquest of 1066 were set in motion. Drawing on sources from as far afield as Iceland and Kievan Russia, this account of the extraordinary years of the princes' exile is a story stranger than fiction, unravelled by Gabriel Ronay with all the excitement of a modern-day crime study. GABRIEL RONAY wrote for The Times for many years. He was born in Transylvania, and studied at the universities of Budapest and Edinburgh. He came to Britain after the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.Trade ReviewPopularly written but scholarly book. * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *Table of ContentsThe agony of a kingdom; the road into exile; counters in a European power game; home from home in Southeastern Europe; heeding England's call - a tragic homecoming; the "lost king" of England. Appendices: Florence of Worcester - "Chronicor ex Chronicis ab initio Mundi ad Annum Domini 1118"; "Leges Edovardi Confessori"; William of Poitier's account of the Norman Conquest - "Gesta Guillelmi Ducis Normamorum et Regis Angloicem".

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Book SynopsisLatest title, destined to be the Agincourt sourcebook for years to come, in the Warfare in History: Sources and Interpretations series.Accessible collections of primary sources covering the Hundred Years War are still remarkably few and far between, and teachers of the subject will find Curry's volume a valuable addition to their bibliographies and teaching aids.FRENCH HISTORY "Agincourt! Agincourt! Know ye not Agincourt?" So began a ballad of around 1600. Since the event itself [25 October 1415], the great military engagement has occupied a special place in both English andFrench consciousness, respectively as either one of the greatest military successes ever, or as the "accursed day". Much ink has been spilt on the battle but do we really know Agincourt? Not since Harris Nicolas's History of the Battle of Agincourt (1827-33) has there been a full attempt to survey the sources until now: this book brings together, in translation and with commentary, English and French narrative accounts and literary works of the fifteenth century. It also traces the treatment of the battle in sixteenth-century English histories and in the literary representations of, amongst others, Shakespeare and Drayton. After examining how later historians interpreted the battle, it concludes with the first full assessment of the extremely rich administrative records which survive for the armies which fought "upon Saint Crispin's day". ANNE CURRY is Professor of Medieval Historyat the University of Southampton. CONTENTS Twenty-six chronicle sources, English and French Accounts from six sixteenth-century English historians Twenty-one records of contemporary reception of the battle, and the development of the literary tradition, in England and France Summaries of interpretations from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries Excerpts from eighteen administrative records relating to the Englishand French armiesTrade ReviewOutstanding. [...] All the texts are provided with ample and thoughtful introductions, so that students can approach them with some degree of sophistication. [...] This book would be an excellent one to use in a historical methodologies course at undergraduate or graduate level. I heartily recommend it for the collections of all college libraries. * DE RE MILITARI *Will not only meet the needs of medieval warfare scholars but could be used as a great teaching tool for every aspect of medieval history... a remarkable book. JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY * Accessible collections of primary sources covering the Hundred Years War are still remarkably few and far between, and teachers of the subject will find Curry's volume a valuable addition to their bibliographies and teaching aids. FRENCH HISTORY * Curry has performed a valuable service to scholars, teachers and general readers by compiling this comprehensive source-book for Henry 's Agincourt campaign. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW An outstanding addition to Boydell's valuable Warfare in History series.. Provides a masterclass in the handling of chronicles and government records. * WAR IN HISTORY *Table of ContentsPart 1 Fifteenth-century chronicle sources: chronicles written in England - the "Gesta Henrici Quinti" (c. 1417, Latin), Thomas Elmham, "Liber Metricus de Henrico Quinto" (Metrical Life of Henry V), (c. 1418, Latin), Thomas Walsingham, "St Albans Chronicle" (c. 1420-22, Latin), Tito Livio Frulovisi, "Vita Henrici Quinti (c. 1438, Latin, Pseudo Elmham, "Vita et Gesta Henrici Quinti" (c. 1446-53, Latin), John Capgrave, "De Illustribus Henricis (c. 1446-53, Latin), John Hardyng, "Chronicle" (1457, 1464, Middle English and Latin), the Chronicle of Peter Basset (1449, French), the "Brut" (1430, 1436-37, 1460-70, Middle English), the London Chronicles (later 15th century, Middle English; chronicles written in France - The Religieux (Monk) of Saint-Denis, "Histoire de Charles VI" (c. 1415-22, Latin), "Geste de nobles francois" (?late 1420s, French), Pierre Cochon, "Chronique normande" (?early 1430s, French), "Chronique anonyme du reigne de Chales VI (?early 1430s, French), "Memoires de Pierre de Fenin" (?1430s, French), "Chronique de Perceval de Cagny" (late 1430s, French), "Chronique de Ruisseauville" (?1420s-1430s, French), Jean Juvenal des Ursins, "Histoire de Charles VI, roy de France" (1430-1440s, French), Enguerran Monstrelet, Jean Waurin and Jean Le Fevre (1444-1460s), Edmond de Dynter, "Chronique des ducs de Brabant" (?early to mid-1440s, Latin), "Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris" (?1449, French), Le Heraut Berry (the Berry Herald) (?1450s, French, "Chronique d'Arthur de Richemont" (1458-mid-1460s, French), "Chronique de Normandie " (1460s, French), Thomas Basin, "Histoire de Charles VII (1471-72, Latin), "Chronique d'Antonio Morosini" )?1430s, Italian. Part 2 Sixteenth-century historians in England: "The First English Life of Henry the Fifth" (1513, English); Robert Fabyan, "The New Chronicles of England and France" (1516, English); Polydore Vergil, "Anglica Historia" (1513, published 1534, Latin); Edward Hall, "The Union of the Two Illustre families of Lancaster and York" (1542, English); John Stow, "The Chronicles of England" (1592, 1601, English); Raphael Holinshed, "Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland" (1586-87, English). Part 3 The contemporary reception of the battle and development of the literary tradition: England; France. Part 4 Interpretations from the 18th to the 20th century. Part 5 Administartive records: The English army; the French army.(Part contents).

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