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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Financial Times Best Summer Book""A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- History""The origins of the modern European state are conventionally traced to the era between 1500 and 1800. Grzymała-Busse makes a convincing case that we should go several centuries back and look at the way that rivalries between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire and other trends framed the emergence of European states."---Tony Barber, Financial Times"Carefully crafted." * Choice *"Grzymała-Busse . . . foregrounds the medieval church as the primary actor in the state-building process. Her arguments rest on a masterly synthesis of pertinent secondary literature coupled with innovative statistical representations." * Choice *"[Sacred Foundations] offers a fresh and innovative perspective on the process of state formation in Europe. Even more notably, it places a significant emphasis on the pivotal role of religion in forming the very institutions that continue to shape our world today."---Farah Adeed, Reading Religion"One of my favorite books . . . Grzymala-Busse [sic] provides a clear argument with details that make the reader want to know more. This is all the more impressive considering the topic is largely unfamiliar to most audiences. It’s a great book for anyone interested in the history behind modern representative democracy."---Justin Kempf, Democracy Paradox

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Financial Times Best Summer Book""A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- History""The origins of the modern European state are conventionally traced to the era between 1500 and 1800. Grzymała-Busse makes a convincing case that we should go several centuries back and look at the way that rivalries between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire and other trends framed the emergence of European states."---Tony Barber, Financial Times"Carefully crafted." * Choice *"Grzymała-Busse . . . foregrounds the medieval church as the primary actor in the state-building process. Her arguments rest on a masterly synthesis of pertinent secondary literature coupled with innovative statistical representations." * Choice *"[Sacred Foundations] offers a fresh and innovative perspective on the process of state formation in Europe. Even more notably, it places a significant emphasis on the pivotal role of religion in forming the very institutions that continue to shape our world today."---Farah Adeed, Reading Religion"One of my favorite books . . . Grzymala-Busse [sic] provides a clear argument with details that make the reader want to know more. This is all the more impressive considering the topic is largely unfamiliar to most audiences. It’s a great book for anyone interested in the history behind modern representative democracy."---Justin Kempf, Democracy Paradox

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Book SynopsisThe first modernized and fully annotated edition of Puttenham's 1589 text.Trade ReviewThe first response to this critical edition of Puttenham's Art of English Poesy ought to be gratitude. Frank Whigham and Wayne A. Rebhorn, both of whom have made substantial scholarly contributions to a rhetorical understanding of early modern literature, have done all students, teachers, and scholars of early modern English literature a great service. This is now the best, most readily available edition of Puttenham’s text. If this new edition means that Puttenham’s Art is taught more often, that will be a good thing. Students will now more likely be examining an art of English poetry and not just a sociology of it in the wonderful prose argument in this historicized, yet aesthetically aware edition of the text. We should exhibit our gratitude by ordering it for our libraries and requiring it for our classes. -- Scott Crider * Sixteenth Century Journal *This fine edition of George Puttenham's Art of English Poesie, by Frank Whigham and Wayne A. Rebhorn, presents a modernized, extensively glossed, and annotated text. The edition also provides a long, full, and often brilliant introduction, which sketches Puttenham’s biography, rehearses the evidence for his authorship of the Art, describes the cultural materials on which the book draws, analyzes its poetics, and discusses it as an embodiment of its author’s ambitions. -- William A. Oram * Modern Philology *Whigham and Rebhorn have undertaken an enormous task in annotating and modernizing such a difficult text, written in frequently complex prose and rife with obscure and sometimes concealed references.... Their readable, fully annotated version of Puttenham's treatise, in consultation with a facsimile of the 1589 text, will be extremely useful to students and seasoned literary critics. -- Stephen B. Dobranski * Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Documentary Life 2. Puttenham's Writings 3. The Authorship of the Art 4. Puttenham’s Archive 5. Poetics in the Art 6. Puttenham’s Ambitions 7. Editorial Conventions Bibliography Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 The "Table" The uncorrected state of sig. Ee2r Emendations Longer Notes Name Glossary Word Glossary Index to First Lines of Illustrative Quotations General Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a vivid account of life in Moscow, the most Russian of Russian cities, in the year 1903, a year before Russia''s disastrous war with Japan and two years before the momentous Revolution of 1905. Though the undercurrents of social change were running swiftly, the surface stability of the Tsarist regime show no indication of the turmoil ahead.The author, who is perhaps best known for his biography Tolstoy, describes Russian life through the eyes of a fictional young Englishman visiting a prosperous Russian merchant family. All facets of Moscow life are covered, from entertainment and night life to family life and the devotions of the Orthodox. We learn about Russia''s factory workers and peasants, its soldiers and lawyers, its priests and its city officials, its Tsar and his entourage: what they do and what they wear, what they think and what they dream. Concluding chapters take our visitor to the famous fair at Nizhny-Novgorod, which was held every year from July 1Table of ContentsCONTENTS II III IV VI VII VIII IX XI XII XIII XIV XV

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Book SynopsisIn this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America.

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Book SynopsisExamines how the French left perceived and used the image of the United States against the backdrop of major historical developments in both countries between the Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871. Along the way, Tom Sancton weaves in the voices of scores of French observers.

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Book SynopsisAn English translation of the Anni mundi 6095-6305 (A.D. 602-813), a primary source for the history of medieval Byzantium, with introduction and notes.

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Book Synopsis"A remarkable analysis of an important medieval text... This work will surely initiate new studies of the precolonial frame of mind and the role of distinct versions of medieval manuscripts in the shaping of medieval understanding."-Sixteenth Century JournalTrade Review"Writing East is a remarkable analysis of an important medieval text. . . . Higgins persuasively argues for the multiplicity of medieval European understandings of the East that had important consequences for several centuries. This work will surely initiate new studies of the precolonial frame of mind and the role of distinct versions of medieval manuscripts in the shaping of medieval understanding." * Sixteenth Century Journal *

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Book SynopsisProviding a narrative and relating the central events that have shaped the country, this work discusses the various aspects of Ireland's history, including political, economic, cultural, social and foreign affairs. It offers coverage including: Pagan Ireland; The arrival of Christianity; Viking and Norman invasions; and, Protestant power.

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Book Synopsis2024 Catholic Media Association Book Award Winner in History The Jewish community of Rome is the oldest Jewish community in Europe. It is also the Jewish community with the longest continuous history, having avoided interruptions, expulsions, and annihilations since 139 BCE. For most of that time, Jewish Romans have lived in close contact with the largest continuously functioning international organization: the Roman Catholic Church. Given the church’s origins in Judaism, Jews and Catholics have spent two thousand years negotiating a necessary and paradoxical relationship. With engaging stories that illuminate the history of Jews and Jewish-Catholic relations in Rome, Intimate Strangers investigates the unusual relationship between Jews and Catholics as it has developed from the first century CE to the present in the Eternal City. Fredric Brandfon innovatively frames these relations through an anthropological lens: how the idea and language of familTrade Review"A fascinating and readable history that's essential for those interested in Jewish or Italian history."—Library Journal“[During] two millennia, the Jews of Rome both thrived and endured extreme hardship, their fate alternately buffeted by persecution and acceptance. . . . Frederic Brandfon skillfully tackles these stark contradictions. . . . [His book is] rich in detail.”—Jewish Book Council"This is a scholarly work that any enthusiast of Jewish history will enjoy. Recommended for academic libraries as well as Jewish high school, community, and synagogue libraries."—Association of Jewish Libraries“A fascinating story of the Jews’ unique resilience and strength living in Rome without interruption for twenty-two centuries.”—Riccardo Shemuel Di Segni, chief rabbi of Rome“An absolutely new approach. Investigating an unusual relationship—the one between Jews and Catholics that in Rome could develop uninterruptedly over almost two thousand years—Intimate Strangers frames it anthropologically while revealing notable knowledge about the life of Jews in Rome and their mutual relationships with the Catholic world. This is a well-written, well-documented, and well-argued book.”—Gabriela Yael Franzone, coordinator of the Department of Heritage and Culture of the Jewish Community of Rome“An engaging and sometimes surprising exploration of the intriguing history of Rome.”—Mark Kurlansky, author of thirty-five books, including Cod, Salt, and The Importance of Not Being Ernest“Most involving. There is always fascinating new material on the next page.”—Judith Roumani, author of Jews in Southern Tuscany during the Holocaust: Ambiguous RefugeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Giannina’s Glance 1. An Inconvenient Liaison: The Triumph of Titus and His Affair with Berenice 2. “Who Is a Jew?”: Jews, Pagans, Proselytes, and God-Fearers in the Roman Catacombs 3. A Torah for the Pope: Jewish Participation in Papal Processions 4. Houseguests and Humanists: Philosophers, Poets, Prostitutes, and Pilgrims in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome 5. Divorce, Roman Style: The Ghetto 6. Love, Death, and Money: Daily Life in Sixteenth-Century Rome 7. “Till the Conversion of the Jews”: Church Attempts at Forced Baptism 8. Trading Places: Papal Exiles and Jewish Emancipations during the Nineteenth Century 9. Backyard Exiles: The Jews in Fascist Rome 10. The Other Knock on the Door: Jews and Catholics during the Nazi Occupation of Rome 11. The Arch of Titus Redux: Israel and Vatican II in Postwar Rome Conclusion: A Walk through the Ghetto Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA detailed investigation of the place of women in thirteenth-century society, using individual case studies to reappraise orthodox opinion.This book offers the first regional study of women in thirteenth-century England, making pioneering use of charters, chronicles, government records and some of the earliest manorial court rolls to examine the interaction of gender, status and life-cycle in shaping women's experiences in Lincolnshire. The author investigates the lives of noblewomen, gentlewomen, townswomen, peasant women, criminal women and women religious from a variety of angles. Not onlydoes she consider how far women were partners alongside men, especially within the family, but she also explores whether they might have been both at once constrained and yet, to an extent, empowered by religious and biological ideas about gender difference which found expression in inheritance practices and the common law. Valuable light on the avenues for political influence open to elite women is shed through case studies of Nicholaa de la Haye (d. 1230), sheriff of Lincoln, Hawise de Quency (d. 1243), countess of Lincoln, and Margaret de Lacy (d. 1266), countess of Lincoln. The book also addresses women's roles within the rural and urban labour markets before the Black Death. LOUISE J. WILKINSON is Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln.Trade ReviewContribute[s] significantly to the study of medieval Englishwoman of all estates below the royal family. * SPECULUM *Offers a readable and informative survey, which considers women in context, and firmly in relation to men; it is not just a 'women's history' volume. It makes a real contribution to Lincolnshire historiography, and to broader understanding of thirteenth-century English society. Prof. -- R.N. SWANSON * LINCOLNSHIRE HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY *Providing a fascinating glimpse into the lives of medieval women, those researching the society of medieval Lincolnshire, as well as those exploring women's history, will find this study valuable. * THE LOCAL HISTORIAN *[A]n accessible and valuable addition to the growing corpus of studies on medieval Englishwomen. Indeed, this wide-ranging volume cries out for similar, comparative works on other counties of thirteenth-century England; I wonder whether a series ought to be founded on Wilkinson's model. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES, vol. 47, no. 3, July 2008 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Noblewomen Gentlewomen Townswomen Peasant women Criminal women Women religious Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA prince in one of Russia''s most exalted noble families, Grigorii N. Trubetskoi was a unique and contradictory figure during World War I. A lifelong civil servant and publicist, he began his diplomatic career in Constantinople, where he served as first secretary of the embassy there for several years. He became one of the leaders of an important political orientation among the liberals that began to express opposition to the tsar, not only on questions of political freedom and domestic political reform, but also by criticizing the tsar''s foreign policy on nationalistic grounds. Trubetskoi possessed significant influence over Russian foreign policy and was instrumental in pushing the regime toward an aggressive annexationist stand in the Balkans. When the Russian ambassador to Serbia died suddenly in June of 1914, Trubetskoi was appointed as his replacementsituating him at the center of Russian diplomacy during the decisive period of Russia''s entry into the war. His account of thiTrade ReviewA very important memoir. Very few others had the intimate view of Russian foreign policy and its leadership that Trubetskoi had. -- Ronald P. Bobroff, Oglethorpe University

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Book Synopsis112 tax lists for Devon for the period from 1500 to 1650.Tax lists are a key means of understanding parish life in the 1500s and early 1600s. This collection of 112 records for towns and villages such as Crediton and Dartmouth is published here for the first time. It reveals those individuals who were the bedrock of their societies and helps us in understanding how local society worked in this period. It is through the study of these documents that we can unravel how differently each parish was organised in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and see how people took part in parish life. The name lists also provide rich material for family and local historians.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction - Local parish administration and variations - Three urban areas - Editorial Conventions The Lists Churchstow, Military Rate, c1592; Church Rate, 1616 Churston Ferrers, Poor Rates, 1599, 1602 & 1607; Church Rates, 1612 & 1613; Poor Rates, 1629, 1633, 1639, 1645 & 1650 Clayhanger, Easter Books, c1573-82; Church Rate, 1603 Clayhidon, Church Rates, c1613 & 1615 (3) Clovelly, Eight Men Rate, 1613 Coldridge, Church Rates, early 1600s & 1613; Poor Rate, 1619; Church Rate, 1621; Poor Rate, 1632; Ship Money Rate, 1639 Colebrooke, Church Rates, 1623 & 1625 Colyton, Church Rates, 1579 & 1618; Poor Rate, 1639 Combe Martin, Church Rates, 1583 (2) Combe Raleigh, Church Rate, 1596 Combe-in-Teignhead, Church Rate, 1600 Cookbury, Church Rates, 1613 & early 1600s Cornwood, Church Rate, 1628 Cornworthy, Military Rate, c1592 Coryton, Militia Rates (2), 1643 Crediton, some including Sandford, Church Rate, 1549; Easter Books, 1574, 1582 & 1594; Church Rate, 1619; Tithe Accounts, 1630, 1636 & 1644 Cruwys Morchard, Church Rate, 1604 Dartington, Military Rate, c1592; Church Rate, 1593; Churchwardens & Overseers of the Poor Rate, 1642 Dartmouth, St Petrox (Southtown), Poor Rates, 1604, 1609, 1611, 1613 & 1619; Hospital Rates, 1627 (2); Poor Rate, 1649; Poor Rate Account, 1649 Dartmouth, St Saviour (Northtown), Poor Rates, 1601, 1603, 1605, 1609, 1615, 1618, 1619, 1622, 1624, 1625, 1632, 1638 & 1649 (2) Dartmouth, Townstal, Military Rate, c1592; Poor Rates, 1610, 1611, 1617, 1620 & 1649 (2) Dartmouth, Militia Rate, 1601 Dean Prior, Sidemen Rate, 1580; Highway Rate, 1586; Poor & Church Rate, 1590; Military Rate, c1592; Highway & Sidemen Rates, 1598; Highway Rate, 1602; Poor Rates, 1616, 1629, 1631, 1634, 1640, 1644 & 1649 Diptford, Military Rate, c1592 Dittisham, Military Rate, c1592 Dodbrooke, Poor Rate, 1613 Doddiscombsleigh, Church Rate, 1612 Dolton, Church Rate, 1613; Churchyard Rate, 1623 Dunkeswell, Church Rate, 1610 Appendices Appendix 1. Letter regarding financing church repairs at Colyton, 1 June 1606 Appendix 2. Letter from to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of St Saviour, Dartmouth, 6 March 1610 Appendix 3. Dartmouth electors, 1626 Appendix 4. Account of the head wardens of Dean Prior, 1580 Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis important text will be of interest to a wide range of historians-of science, of scholarly practices and the book, and of early-modern intellectual and cultural history.Trade ReviewThis work provides an interesting historical examination of Galileo’s original text. Recommended—ChoiceRaphael’s book is an uncommon and very welcome contribution to the ever-growing Galileo scholarship.—Annals of ScienceEye-opening...Raphael's brilliant epilogue has far-reaching implications for narratives of change. Her critique of the prevailing historiography of the Scientific Revolution highlights deep flaws in its warfare model of change, in which traditionalists fight innovators and noncombatants are irrelevant. Leading by example, she suggests that researchers learn to appreciate that most readers neither embrace nor reject novelty in toto. The pick-and-choose eclecticism that Raphael has found among readers of Two New Sciences makes for less triumphalist melodrama, but much more convincing history.—Michael H. Shank, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Renaissance QuarterlyRenée Raphael's Reading Galileo: Scribal Technologies and the "Two New Sciences" gives a telling account of the reception of a seminal work of the Scientific Revolution, which has wider implications for the history of reading and of the nature of intellectual traditions at the time more generally.—Michael Hunter, Birkbeck, University of London, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 An anonymous annotator, Baliani, and the "ideal" readerChapter 2 Editing, Commenting, and Learning Math from GalileoChapter 3 Modifying authoritative reading to new purposesChapter 4 An annotated book of many usesChapter 5 The University of Pisa and a Dialogue between Old and NewChapter 6 Jesuit bookish practices applied to the Two New SciencesEpilogue NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHow the Irish Revolution was shaped by international actors and events The Irish War of Independence is often understood as the culmination of centuries of political unrest between Ireland and the English. However, the conflict also has a vitally important yet vastly understudied international dimension. The Irish Revolution: A Global History reassesses the conflict as an inherently transnational event, examining how circumstances and individuals abroad shaped the course Ireland's struggle for independence.Bringing together leading international scholars of modern Ireland, its diaspora, and the British Empire, this volume discusses the Irish revolution in a truly global sense. The text situates the conflict in the wider context of the international flourishing of anti-colonial movements following World War I. Despite the differences between these movements, their proponents communicated extensively with each other, learning from and engaging with other revoTrade ReviewFeaturing impressive new scholarship on the global dimensions of the Irish Revolution, Mannion and McGarry provide much needed coherence to this emergent but still diffuse and underdeveloped aspect of the historiography, resulting in a cutting-edge reader on a critical theme that currently lacks a single dedicated volume. Most impressively, The Irish Revolution features many neglected or virtually unknown international influences and comparative case studies, including Algerian, Egyptian, Korean, Panamanian, and African-American contexts, making it a novel contribution to our understanding of the international dimensions of anti-colonial (and colonial) discourses, networks, and responses to Irish events. -- Gavin Foster, author of The Irish Civil War and Society: Politics, Class and ConflictA truly groundbreaking volume whose international contributions force a great reimagining of the Irish Revolution. A must-read for anyone interested in Irish history. -- Timothy McMahon, Marquette UniversityA brilliant collection of essays, written by some of the leading authorities on the subject. The book takes us from Dublin to Delhi, from Algeria to Australia, and many other places in-between, and greatly enriches our understanding of the global repercussions and entanglements of what happened in Ireland between 1916 and 1922. Essential reading for anyone who is interested in the global interconnectedness of revolutionary struggle during this period. -- Robert Gerwarth, Professor of Modern History at University College Dublin

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe collection's concluding essays address methodological questions, frameworks, and terminology, offering many possibilities for approaching trans-centered analysis in medieval and early modern scholarship. Overall, the collection is an important contribution to the premodern era, and the diversity of sources, methodologies, and approaches will appeal to a wide variety of students and scholars. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Benefits of Being Trans Historical, by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna M. Klosowska Part I: Archives: Revisiting Law and Medicine 1. Mapping the Borders of Sex, by Leah DeVun 2. Elenx de Céspedes: Indeterminate Genders in the Spanish Inquisition, by Igor H. de Souza 3. The Case of Marin le Marcis, by Kathleen Perry Long 4. The Transgender Turn: Eleanor Rykener Speaks Back, by M.W. Bychowski 5. Wojciech of Pozna and the Trans Archive, Poland, 1550–1561, by Anna M. Klosowska Part II: Frameworks: Representing Early Trans Lives 6. Recognizing Wilgefortis, by Robert Mills 7. Performing and Desiring Gender Variance in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, by Abdulhamit Arvas 8. Without Magic or Miracle: The Romance of Silence and the Prehistory of Genderqueerness, by Masha Raskolnikov 9. Transgender Translation, Humanism, and Periodization: Vasco da Lucena's Deeds of Alexander the Great, by Zrinka Stahuljak Part III: Interventions: Critical Trans Methodologies 10. Visualizing the Trans-Animal Body: The Hyena in Medieval Bestiaries, by Emma Campbell 11. Maimed Limbs and Biosalvation: Rehabilitation Politics in Piers Plowman, by Micah James Goodrich 12. Where Are All the Trans Women in Byzantium?, by Roland Betancourt 13. Performing Reparative Transgender Identities from Stage Beauty to The King and the Clown, by Alexa Alice Joubin 14. Laid Open: Examining Genders in Early America, by Scott Larson 15. Epilogue: Against Consensus, by Greta LaFleur

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Book SynopsisHeaven's Wrath explores the religious thought and religious rites of the early Dutch Atlantic world. D. L. Noorlander argues that the Reformed Church and the West India Company forged and maintained a close union, with considerable consequences across the seventeenth century. Noorlander questions the core assumptions about why the Dutch failed to establish a durable empire in America. He downplays the usual commercial explanations and places the focus instead on the tremendous expenses incurred in the Calvinist-backed war and the Reformed Church's meticulous, worried management of colonial affairs. By pinpointing the issues that hampered the size and import of the Dutch Atlantic world, Noorlander revises core notions about the organization and aims of the Dutch empire, the culture of the West India Company, and the very shape of Dutch society. Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.Trade ReviewHeaven's Wrath is a well-written and enjoyable monograph based on thorough research in an enormous collection of primary sources by an author who demonstrates joy in writing. Noorlander has written a book that is a boon for everyone interested in any religious element of the Dutch Atlantic. It will prove to be a welcome reference (in both the text itself and its footnotes) for everyone working on this general topic. * New West Indian Guide *For me, as a Dutch scholar of New Netherland, Heaven's Wrath is a nail in the coffin of the antiquated idea that New Amsterdam was founded solely 'to make a buck,'. Heaven's Wrath is a deeply impressive, even-handed, and nuanced treatment of the relationship between faith, worship, and the emerging capitalist economy of the Dutch Republic, as epitomized in the West India Company. It is an important contribution to the scholarship of the Atlantic World. * The New England Quarterly *Heaven's Wrath adds an important perspective to the growing scholarship that shows that the company's objectives were not exclusively or even largely commercial. * William & Mary Quarterly *In Heaven's Wrath, the American historian Danny Noorlander successfully disproves some of the 'most persistent claims' made in Anglo-American scholarship about the role of religion in early modern Dutch expansion. * Low Countries Historical Review *Writing with clarity, sardonic humor, and a vibrant selection of quotes from diligently mined materials, D. L. Noorlander gives a fresh account of the often-separate institutional histories of the seventeenth-century Dutch Reformed Church and the Dutch West India Company (WIC). He provides plentiful evidence that spiritual zeal drove Dutch colonization in the Atlantic, and that it was religious rigor among the WIC's administrators and their colonial directors and ministers, not laxity, that prevented the widespread conversion of conquered or neighboring populations. * Early American Literature *Noorlander, fluent in Dutch, exploits both English and Dutch sources to good effect. He shines a bright light on how churchmen forged a moral edge to the commercial ambitions of the West India Company. With "God and Mammon" cast as "partners" in the era of Dutch Atlantic expansion—and near equal partners at that—Noorlander presents a significant correction to the popular view that only New England Puritans can claim the mantle of sublime religious motivation for their colonial conquests. * Journal of British Studies *Heaven's Wrath is a groundbreaking work that will become the standard for those seeking to understand the role of the DRC [Dutch Reformed Church] and WIC [West India Company] in the early modern Atlantic world. * Church History *In Heaven's Wrath, Noorlander provides a new focused study of the Netherlands' Atlantic Empire that dismisses one old idea and breathes new life into another as part of his analysis of Calvinist influence in the West India Company (WIC). He effectively challenges prevailing truisms regarding the Dutch Empire in West Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and New Netherland. * Pennsylvania History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Role of Reformed Christianity in the Commercial and Colonial Endeavors of the Dutch Golden Age 1. The Dutch Reformed Church and the World: The International Concerns of the Calvinist Ministry 2. Faith and Worship in a Merchant Community: The Directors of the Dutch West India Company 3. Baptized by Water and Fire: The Religious Rites of the Company's Early Fleets and Conquests 4. Planting the Lord's Vineyard in Foreign Soil: Public Worship in Early Dutch Forts and Settlements 5. Reformers in the Land of the Holy Cross: The Calvinist Mission in Brazil before the Portuguese Revolt 6. Turmoil in the Garden of Eden: Dissent and Reform in New Netherland and the Dutch Caribbean 7. The Harvest Was Great, the Laborers Few: Missionary Work among Africans and Native Americans 8. God and Mammon in the Dutch Atlantic World: Conflict over Religious Resources and Power Conclusion: The Dutch Joint- Stock Companies and the Catholic Powers in Comparative Perspective

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Book SynopsisQueen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of Loreto shrine in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Bianca M. Lopez argues that in central Italy, as elsewhere, the cult of the Virgin Mary gained new prominence at this time of unprecedented mortality. Individuals gave to Santa Maria di Loreto, which houses the structure in which Mary is believed to have lived, as an expression of their grief in the hope of strengthening family lineages beyond death and to care for loved ones believed to be languishing in purgatory.Lopez establishes statistical correlations between different social groups and their donations to Loreto over time, uncovering informative new historical patterns such as the prominence of widow and migrant donors in the notarial

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Book SynopsisIt was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages. After the move of the Empire's capital to Constantinople in the fourth century and the Gothic Wars in the sixth century, Rome was gradually depleted physically, economically, and politically. How then, asks Maya Maskarinec, did this exhausted city, with limited Christian presence, transform over the course of the sixth through ninth centuries into a seemingly inexhaustible reservoir of sanctity? Conventional narratives explain the rise of Christian Rome as resulting from an increasingly powerful papacy. In City of Saints, Maskarinec looks outward, to examine how Rome interacted with the wider Mediterranean world in the Byzantine period. During the early Middle Ages, the city imported dozens of saints and their legends, naturalized them, and physically layered their cults onto the city's imperial and sacred topography. Maskarinec documents Rome's spectacular physical transformation, drawing on church architecture, frescoes, mosaics, inscriptions, Greek and Latin hagiographical texts, and less-studied documents that attest to the commemoration of these foreign saints. These sources reveal a vibrant plurality of voices—Byzantine administrators, refugees, aristocrats, monks, pilgrims, and others—who shaped a distinctly Roman version of Christianity. City of Saints extends its analysis to the end of the ninth century, when the city's ties to the Byzantine world weakened. Rome's political and economic orbits moved toward the Carolingian world, where the saints' cults circulated, valorizing Rome's burgeoning claims as a microcosm of the "universal" Christian church.Trade Review"Considerable strengths undergird this study. The author's expertise on the topography and legends of the city of Rome are evident throughout; her reading is broad and current . . . Excellent maps and plates (often photographed by the author herself ) are liberally spread throughout the volume,and they complement the story she tells. The reader comes away with a visceral sense of what it meant to live in medieval Rome and how the veneration of saints was woven into the urban fabric." * The Journal of Religion *"Maskarinec's evocative reading of the diverse array of saints is grounded in the author's extensive knowledge of the complex physical history of early medieval Rome. City of Saints charts new territory in attending to audiences' perceptions of saints and the monuments dedicated to them and thereby uncovers how sanctity redeemed buildings surviving from Rome's classical past, since narratives about saints shaped both responses to antiquity and the growth of the city's early medieval built fabric." * Speculum *"City of Saints is an exceptional piece of scholarship, readable, even inviting. It might be the most important analysis of popular Christianity for the city of Rome in the early Middle Ages." * George Demacopoulos, Fordham University *"Maya Maskarinec has done more than any author before her to explain why (and how) saints came to be inserted into and associated with particular places in Rome. It is rare to see a scholar with such a solid command of both the hagiographical literature and the most current scholarship on Roman archaeology, topography, and social history." * Hendrik Dey, Hunter College *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. A City of Saints Chapter 2. Imperial Saints Triumphant in the Forum Romanum Chapter 3. St. Caesarius on the Palatine: Enriching Rome by Imperial Orders Chapter 4. Miraculous Charity Along the Tiber's Banks Chapter 5. Fashioning Saints for the Affluent on the Aventine Hill Chapter 6. Collectivities of Sanctity in Early Medieval Rome Chapter 7. Carolingian Romes Outside of Rome Chapter 8. A Universalizing Rome Through the Lens of Ado of Vienne Epilogue Appendices 1. Saints from Abroad Venerated in Rome, ca. 500-900 2. Theodotus and S. Angelo in Pescheria 3. The Translatio of St. Caesarius from Terracina to Rome 4. The Spread of St. George's Cult 5. An Early Medieval Diaconia Dedicated to St. Nicholas? 6. The Passio of St. Boniface of Tarsus Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChallenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly aware of their own otherness, especially when faced with the far-flung peoples and cultures they meant to describe. These authors—William of Rubruck among the Mongols, "John Mandeville" cataloguing the world's diverse wonders, Geraldus Cambrensis describing the manners of the twelfth-century Welsh, and Jean de Joinville in his account of the various Saracens encountered on the Seventh Crusade—display an uncanny ability to see and understand from the perspective of the very strangers who are their subjects. Khanmohamadi elaborates on a distinctive late medieval ethnographic poetics marked by both a profound openness to alternative perspectives and voices and a sense of the formidable threat of such openness to Europe's governing religious and cultural orthodoxies. That we can hear the voices of medieval Europe's others in these narratives in spite of such orthodoxies allows us to take full measure of the productive forces of disorientation and destabilization at work on these early ethnographic writers. Poised at the intersection of medieval studies, anthropology, and visual culture, In Light of Another's Word is an innovative departure from each, extending existing studies of medieval travel writing into the realm of poetics, of ethnographic form into the premodern realm, and of early visual culture into the realm of ethnographic encounter.Trade Review"Khanmohamadi has rendered a valuable service to scholars and students of medieval travel writing, human geography, and cultural contact. She presents a clear-sighted and well-articulated vision here of the distinctive generic and discursive characteristics of medieval empirical ethnography." * Marianne O'Doherty, American Historical Review *"Extremely well written, lucidly exposed, Shirin Khanmohamadi's argument is carried by a graceful narrative and powerful close readings spanning three centuries and ranging from one edge of the known world, twelfth-century insular Britain and Wales, to the other extreme, thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Mongolia and Cathay. . . . A required point of reference in medieval studies and an indispensable classroom text." * The Medieval Review *"In prose regularly both fresh and elegant, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi transforms our understanding of the formal features of medieval ethnography, and offers an exciting account of the diverse ways ethnography can work." * Patricia Clare Ingham, Indiana University *"Shirin Khanmohamadi persuasively demonstrates the distinctiveness of medieval (versus antique and early modern) representations of non-European others. Shaped by a scrupulous attention to relative chronology and historical context, her analyses combine a sure-handed command of critical and theoretical discourses with nuanced close readings. In lucid prose, she makes a strong case for the variety and flexibility of Latin Europe's encounter with various non-Christian others across three languages and over three centuries. In Light of Another's Word is destined to become an indispensable entry in the bibliography of 'postcolonial' medievalism." * Sharon Kinoshita, University of California, Santa Cruz *

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Book SynopsisIn 1341 in Aragon, a Jewish convert to Christianity was sentenced to death, only to be pulled from the burning stake and into a formal religious interrogation. His confession was as astonishing to his inquisitors as his brush with mortality is to us: the condemned man described a Jewish conspiracy to persuade recent converts to denounce their newfound Christian faith. His claims were corroborated by witnesses and became the catalyst for a series of trials that unfolded over the course of the next twenty months. Between Christian and Jew closely analyzes these events, which Paola Tartakoff considers paradigmatic of inquisitorial proceedings against Jews in the period. The trials also serve as the backbone of her nuanced consideration of Jewish conversion to Christianity—and the unwelcoming Christian response to Jewish conversions—during a period that is usually celebrated as a time of relative interfaith harmony. The book lays bare the intensity of the mutual hostility between Christians and Jews in medieval Spain. Tartakoff's research reveals that the majority of Jewish converts of the period turned to baptism in order to escape personal difficulties, such as poverty, conflict with other Jews, or unhappy marriages. They often met with a chilly reception from their new Christian brethren, making it difficult to integrate into Christian society. Tartakoff explores Jewish antagonism toward Christians and Christianity by examining the aims and techniques of Jews who sought to re-Judaize apostates as well as the Jewish responses to inquisitorial prosecution during an actual investigation. Prosecutions such as the 1341 trial were understood by papal inquisitors to be in defense of Christianity against perceived Jewish attacks, although Tartakoff shows that Christian fears about Jewish hostility were often exaggerated. Drawing together the accounts of Jews, Jewish converts, and inquisitors, this cultural history offers a broad study of interfaith relations in medieval Iberia.Trade Review"Tartakoff's facility with the diverse and abundant source base makes her book an important new contribution to scholarship on medieval conversion." * American Historical Review *"A shining example of microhistory. . . . Between Christian and Jew is a careful and well-written study which through its clear focus raises important questions about medieval Jewish apostasy-for Jews and Christians of the time and for the apostates themselves." * Jewish Book World *"Between Christian and Jew represents a rare combination of a highly original study that makes major historiographical contributions and engages in sophisticated source analysis and in a moving story that resurrects historical subjects in a way that promotes the reader's curiosity and empathy. It not only offers a constructive new way of viewing the role Jewish converts played in Jewish-Christian coexistence that will inspire innovative future research but also stands as a model of readable history writing that other scholars should aspire to emulate." * Comitatus *"An outstanding book and a compelling read, this is the first thorough account of a trial of Jews by the papal inquisition, under whose jurisdiction Jews did not normally fall. This is also the first work to attempt an overview of the phenomenon of Jewish conversion to Christianity in medieval Spain prior to the watershed of 1391, and Tartakoff's conclusions regarding the motives for conversion are very important." * Mark Meyerson, University of Toronto *

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Book SynopsisA timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a play set with a colorful ship, bearded Noah, pairs of animals, and an uncomplicated vision of survival. Noah’s ark, however, will forever be haunted by what it leaves to the rising waters so that the world can begin again.In Noah’s Arkive, Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates examine the long history of imagining endurance against climate catastrophe—as well as alternative ways of creating refuge. They trace how the elements of the flood narrative were elaborated in medieval and early modern art, text, and music, and now shape writing and thinking during the current age of anthropogenic climate change. Arguing that the biblical ark may well be the worst possible exemplar of human behavior, the chapters draw on a range of sources, from the Epic of Gilgamesh and Ovid’s tale of Deucalion and Pyrrah, to speculative fiction, climate fiction, and stories and art dwelling with environmental catastrophe. Noah’s Arkive uncovers the startling afterlife of the Genesis narrative written from the perspective of Noah’s wife and family, the animals on the ark, and those excluded and so left behind to die. This book of recovered stories speaks eloquently to the ethical and political burdens of living through the Anthropocene.Following a climate change narrative across the millennia, Noah’s Arkive surveys the long history of dwelling with the consequences of choosing only a few to survive in order to start the world over. It is an intriguing meditation on how the story of the ark can frame how we think about environmental catastrophe and refuge, conservation and exclusion, offering hope for a better future by heeding what we know from the past.Trade Review "Noah’s Arkive is an indispensable book—one that takes on a central charismatic narrative equipped to address the shuddering socio-ecological transition within which we (a vastly differentiated “we”) find ourselves. Magisterial yet wisely irreverent, it touches upon urgent challenges, including ecofascism, decolonialization, and racial justice, while also delivering a learned, meticulously researched exhibit of historical ark narratives."—Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon "Aboard Noah’s Arkive you’ll experience the Flood from the perspectives of its human and animal passengers and the multitude of creatures drowning shipside, accompanied by the sanctimonious dove and the raucous raven. This beautiful, deep, funny, ardent, rageful book will float the boat of anyone interested in ecocriticism, material culture, science studies, and design."—Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine

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Book SynopsisSubstantially revised and expanded edition that sheds new light on Stanford's career as composer, conductor and teacher, as well as promoter of opera in English and arranger of Irish folk music.

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of this war helps us understand how each country to defend the frontier, and the political issues which drove the Anglo-Scottish wars of the 1520s. The Anglo-Scottish War of 1522-1524 saw the mobilisation of tens of thousands of men and vast amounts of resources in both England and Scotland. Beyond its British context, the war had a European significance: it formed an element in the wider Valois-Habsburg struggles over Italy, with the complex systems of alliances spreading the repercussions of this struggle far across the continent and to the borders of England and Scotland. Recent years have seen the emergence of a renewed debate around the status of the Anglo-Scottish frontier and the wider political and social conditions which predominated in the borderlands of each kingdom. Although there has been a move to present the Anglo-Scottish border as a porous frontier where the populations on either side were closely connected, these neighbourly links imploded rapidly in wartime when frontier populations were co-opted into a national struggle. It is significant that borderers were responsible for inflicting the heaviest violence on each other during the war. Drawing on an unprecedented access to English and Sottish sources of the conflict, this book offers an important new contribution to both Scottish and English history as well as the wider military history of late medieval and early modern Europe. Aspects of military mobilisation, logistics, the defence of frontiers, the use of violence against civilians and wartime espionage feature prominently.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Albany's Return to Scotland to the Sack of Jedburgh (November 1521-September 1523) Chapter 2: Albany's March on Wark to the Treaty of Berwick (September 1523-January 1526) Chapter 3: Military Mobilisation in Scotland Chapter 4: The Supply of Scottish Armies Chapter 5: The Destruction of the Scottish Borders Chapter 6: The Defence of the English Frontier Chapter 7: Spies and Informers Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAnglo-Norman aristocratic patronage of Anglo-Saxon monasteries in post-Conquest England examined. Although the Norman Conquest of 1066 swept away most of the secular and ecclesiastical leaders of pre-Conquest England, it held some positive aspects for English society, such as its effects on Anglo-Saxon monastic foundations, which this study explores. The first part deals in depth with five individual case studies (Abingdon, Gloucester, Bury St Edmunds, St Albans and St Augustine's, Canterbury) as well as Fenland and other houses, showing how despite mixed fortunes the major houses survived to become the richest in England. The second part places the experiences of the houses in the context of structural changes in religious patronage as well as within the social and political nexus of the Anglo-Norman realm. Dr Cownie analyses the pattern of gifts to religious houses on both sides of the Channel, looking at the reasons why they were made. EMMA COWNIE gained her Ph.D. from the University of Wales at Cardiff.Trade ReviewA nuanced but complex picture of the relationship between the victorious incomers and the religious world on which they at first violently intruded, but subsequently often took to their hearts. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *An important addition to the recent corpus of scholarship on Anglo-Norman English society... sheds valuable new light on the problem of multiple self-identities of the new Norman elites in England. * SPECULUM *Cownie is to be congratulated on producing a weighty book which will surely attract a wide readership. * ARCHIVES *

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Book SynopsisNumerous aspects of the medieval economy are covered in this new collection of essays, from business fraud and changes in wages to the production of luxury goods. Long dominated by theories of causation involving class conflict and Malthusian crisis, the field of medieval economic history has been transformed in recent years by a better understanding of the process of commercialisation. Inrecognition of the important work in this area by Richard Britnell, this volume of essays brings together studies by historians from both sides of the Atlantic on fundamental aspects of the medieval commercial economy. From examinations of high wages, minimum wages and unemployment, through to innovative studies of consumption and supply, business fraud, economic regulation, small towns, the use of charters, and the role of shipmasters and peasants as entrepreneurs, this collection is essential reading for the student of the medieval economy. Contributors: John Hatcher, John Langdon, Derek Keene, John S. Lee, James Davis, Mark Bailey, Christine M. Newman, Peter L. Larson, Maryanne Kowaleski, Martha Carlin, James Masschaele, Christopher DyerTrade ReviewA real strength of this festschrift is its masterful editing, and those keen enough to read it from cover to cover will benefit from the clear thematic threads linking all the chapters. * HISTORY *These studies are clearly written and analytical in tone. They employ detailed source criticism and local case-studies in order to participate in debates and controversies of wider significance, and open up entirely new subjects for discussion. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Should be required reading for all who study late medieval England. * CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY *Should be required reading for all who study late medieval England. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *A fine collection of often thought-provoking essays. * THE RICARDIAN *This festschrift is more successful than many in presenting a thematically cohesive body of research, most of which will be of interest to the historian of small towns and their rural hinterlands. [...] A useful volume which contains much of interest to the urban historian. * URBAN HISTORY *A more coherent volume than many such collections manage to be. [...] Graduate students would be well advised to regard [the essays] as models of scholarship, not just as sources of information. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *There is much in this volume to broaden understanding of medieval society and the editors are to be congratulated on bringing together essays which so deftly illustrate the range of Richard Britnell's own work. * JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *Table of ContentsRichard Britnell: An Appreciation Unreal Wages: Long-run Living Standards and the 'Golden Age' of the Fifteenth Century - John Hatcher Minimum Wages and Unemployment Rates in Medieval England: The Case of Old Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 1256-1357 - John Langdon Crisis Management in London's Food Supply, 1250-1500 - Derek J Keene Grain Shortages in Late Medieval Towns - John S. Lee Market Regulation in Fifteenth-Century England - James Davis Self-Government in the Small Towns of Late Medieval England - Mark Bailey Marketing and Trading Networks in Medieval Durham - C. M. Newman Peasant Opportunities in Rural Durham: Land, Vills and Mills 1400-1500 - Peter L. Larson The Shipmaster as Entrepreneur in Medieval England - Maryanne Kowaleski Cheating the Boss: Robert Carpenter's Embezzlement Instructions [1261 x 1268], and the Employee Fraud in Medieval England - Martha Carlin The Public Life of the Private Charter in Thirteenth-Century England - James Masschaele Luxury Goods in Medieval England - Christopher Dyer Bibliography of the Writings of Richard Britnell Tabula Gratulatoria

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Book SynopsisThe memoir of Ralph Ottey, covering his childhood in Jamaica, his wartime service in the RAF and his life and career in Lincolnshire

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Originally published in two volumes in 1980, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is now issued in a paperback edition containing both volumes. The work is a full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change. Professor Eisenstein begins by examining the general implications of the shift from script to print, and goes on to examine its part in three of the major movements of early modern times - the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.

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This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on everyday culture, gender, violence and sexuality.

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Book SynopsisThis volume of Medieval European Coinage is the first comprehensive survey of the coinage of north Italy c.9501500, bringing the latest research to an international audience. It provides an authoritative and up-to-date account of the coinages of Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy and the greater Veneto, which have never been studied together in such detail on a broad regional basis. The volume reveals for the first time the wider trends that shaped the coinages of the region and offers new syntheses of the monetary history of the individual cities. It includes detailed appendices, such as a list of coin hoards, indices and a glossary, as well as a fully illustrated catalogue of the north Italian coins, including those of Genoa, Milan and Venice, in the unrivalled collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, largely formed by Professor Philip Grierson (19102006).Trade Review'… MEC 12 is certainly a major resource on northern Italian coinage that will be useful to scholars for decades to come.' Lucia Travaini, SpeculumTable of Contents1. General introduction; 2. Royal and imperial coinages; 3. Piedmont; 4. Liguria; 5. Lombardy; 6. Veneto (including Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige/Sudtirol); Appendices; Bibliography; Sales catalogues; Catalogue; Concordances; Indexes.

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Book SynopsisThis book is of interest to all those who value and seek to understand the humanities. Beginning in the Italian Renaissance and ending in the European Enlightenment, this book touches on how people in the past changed their reading habits, and how technology changed their perception of truth.Trade Review'An engrossing story about how modernity was born when it learned to read and write the word. The parallels between the Italian Renaissance and our contemporary present are stunning. As before, so now: information glut and a rapidly evolving mediascape are challenges that only a new investment in critical sense-making – 'philology,' broadly understood – can meet. Celenza's call for a reinvigorated culture of the humanities today is both historically rich and prescient. His book is sure to bring a new dimension to the debates about the uses and reach of culture today.' James I. Porter, University of California, Berkeley'A powerful history, cutting through the artificial line too-often drawn between Renaissance and Enlightenment to present one continuity, the quiet revolution underlying all the others: the slow, painstaking advance of the conviction that knowledge-seeking can and should be unending, unlimited, and open to everyone.' Ada Palmer, University of Chicago'Christopher Celenza brilliantly threads the needle to produce a portrait of Italian Renaissance humanism for our time. Deeply attentive to personal experiences and personal ties, he injects agency and emotion into the celebrated practice of classical and biblical philology, astutely examining figures who include Valla, Poliziano, Decembrio, and even Descartes. Celenza's enduring claim is that philology was and remains inextricably connected with philosophy.' Kristine Haugen, California Institute of Technology Table of Contents1. Philology, the Italian renaissance, and authorship; 2. Lorenzo Valla, philology, emotion; 3. Losing your identity: Angelo Decembrio; 4. Trust and authenticity; 5. Pursuing a love of knowledge; 6. Shaping knowledge; 7. Forgetting philology: Rene Descartes; 8. Certainty. Skepticism; 9. Echoes.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first comprehensive and high-quality full length academic study on the subject of twelfth century Anglo-Norman and Angevin royal bastards and explores their lives, relationships and many notable contributions to safeguarding the reigns of their legitimate relatives.

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Book SynopsisThis monograph examines one specific hoard horizon, which is connected to the Mongol invasion of Hungary (1241-42). With this catastrophic event, the historical context is both well-known and much discussed by contemporaries and modern scholars. This opportunity to examine material connected to a sole event, but across a broad spectrum of geographical space and social class, is unique for hoard horizons in Hungary, and, for that matter, in Europe. Though this study focuses on hoards connected to the Mongol invasion, it is also relevant beyond this specific context. The work addresses issues concerning hoard finds and material culture, and examines how finds are related when found in different contexts (a hoard, grave, or settlement feature), thus the questions raised and conclusions reached are important for other medieval hoard finds. By comparing hoards related to a single historical event to a contemporaneous site – containing a village, a church, and a cemetery – assessments can be made regarding how hoards reflect social issues such as stratification, wealth, status, and fashion.Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgements CHAPTER ONE: Jewellery of the High Middle Ages: Problems with research CHAPTER TWO: Typochronology of the Finds CHAPTER THREE: The Material Culture of Hoards: A Socio-Economic Interpretation Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisInformation regarding epigraphy, both early Christian and medieval, in the province of Burgos was scarce and spread around in inaccessible publications. This Corpus contains and analyses all entries between IV and XIII centuries, located in the province of Burgos in various monuments like Quintanilla de las Viñas, San Pedro de Arlanza, Santo Domingo de Silos, The Real Huelgas, Burgos Cathedral, etc. To this end, starting from a review of the bibliography which has been published, a detailed fieldwork was performed resulting in the collection of 326 entries, 45 of which have never been published before, providing new and corrected readings to many of them. Indeed, the description of each item; its edition, both epigraphic and paleographic; its translation; the metric study of the inscriptions; its historical context; the paleographic study of its characters and analysis of the literary texts, All of that gives the ability to specify many dates in history of the creation of the corresponding monuments the inscriptions are part of, and the recognition of numerous analogies among several of these constructions. Therefore, this work stands as a valuable landmark and touchstone for the fields of History, Art and Medieval Studies.Table of ContentsPROLOGOS; A MODO DE PROLOGO; INTRODUCCION; AGRADECIMIENTOS; ESQUEMA DE LAS FICHAS; SIGNOS DIACRITICOS UTILIZADOS; CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM CHRISTIANARUM ET MEDIAEVALIUM PROVINCIAE BURGENSIS (ss. IV-XIII); INTRODUCCION AL ESTUDIO EPIGRAFICO; I- GENESIS DE LAS INSCRIPCIONES; II- CARACTERES EXTERNOS. LA ESCRITURA; III- ABREVIACIONES; IV- OTROS ELEMENTOS GRAFICOS; V - CARACTERES INTERNOS; VI - CARACTERES INTERNOS INSCRIPCIONES LIBRARIAS E INDEFINIDAS; VII - LA TRADICION EPIGRAFICA; VIII - CONSERVACION; CONCLUSIONES; INDICES; CLASIFICACION DIPLOMATICA; CRONOLOGIA DE LAS INSCRIPCIONES; LUGARES DE CONSERVACION; INDICE ONOMASTICO; BIBLIOGRAFIA

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Book SynopsisAmsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city''s colourful thousand year history, Amsterdam will bring the place to life: its sights and smells; its politics and people. Concentrating on two significant periods - the late 1500s to the mid 1600s and then from the Second World War to the present, Russell Shorto''s masterful biography looks at Amsterdam''s central preoccupations. Just as fin-de-siecle Vienna was the birthplace of psychoanalysis, seventeenth century Amsterdam was the wellspring of liberalism, and today it is still a city that takes individual freedom very seriously. A wonderfully evocative book that takes Amsterdam''s dramatic past and present and populates it with a whole host of colourful characters, Amsterdam is the definitive book on this great city.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on vivid Arab chronicles, Amin Maalouf retells the Crusades from the Muslim perspective â an era of fierce resistance, Saladinâs triumph, and a lasting cultural memory that still shapes Arab identity and views of the West today.Trade Review'A useful and important analysis adding much to existing western histories ... worth recommending to George Bush.' London Review of Books 'Well-researched and highly readable.' The Guardian 'A wide readership should enjoy this vivid narrative of stirring events.' The Bookseller 'An inspiring story ... Very readable ... Well translated ... Warmly recommended.' The Times Literary Supplement 'Very well done indeed ... Should be put in the hands of anyone who asks what lies behind the Middle East's present conflicts.' Middle East International

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Book SynopsisA brilliant exploration of Cyprus''s long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed. -- GuardianPoetic...Compelling -- New StatesmanOne of National Geographic''s Summer Reads 2024Think of a place where you can stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Egyptian empires; a place marked by the struggle between fascism and communism and where the capital city is divided in half as a result of bloody conflict; where the ancient olive trees of Homer''s time exist alongside the undersea cables which link up the world''s internet.In Cypria, named after a lost Cypriot epic which was the prequel to The Odyssey, British Cypriot writer Alex Christofi writes a deeply personal, lyrical history of the island of Cyprus, from the era of goddesses and mythical beasts to the present day.This sprawling, evocative and poetic book begins

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