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University of Notre Dame Press Miserere Mei
Book SynopsisIn Miserere Mei, Clare Costley King''oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. During this period, the Penitential Psalms inspired an enormous amount of creative and intellectual work: in addition to being copied and illustrated in Books of Hours and other prayer books, they were expounded in commentaries, imitated in vernacular translations and paraphrases, rendered into lyric poetry, and even modified for singing. Miserere Mei explores these numerous transformations in materiality and genre. Combining the resources of close literary analysis with those of the history of the book, it reveals not only that the Penitential Psalms lay at the heart of Reformation-age debates over the nature of repentance, but also, and more significantly, that they constituted a site of theological, political, artistic, and poetic engagement across the many polarities that are ofTrade Review“King’oo provides a careful and multi-disciplinary history of this group of psalms during the years before and following the English Reformation. . . . Using tools from the scholarship of history, art, literature, and theology, King’oo has written a fascinating study. With its superb scholarship and carefully reasoned arguments, this book is recommended for academic libraries supporting graduate programs.” —Catholic Library World“The discovery of continuities amidst the upheaval of the Reformation has been a major area of scholarship in recent years and King’oo ably demonstrates that the Penitential psalms form yet another example of the way in which ‘the religious literature of the pre-Reformed past was not cast aside but rather gradually and complexly reshaped in Reformation England.’” —Journal of Ecclesiastical History“The interdisciplinary approach used by Costley King’oo is one of the book’s great strengths: we study manuscripts, early printed works and illustrations; Bible commentary, paraphrase and translation; lyric poetry, political parody and devotional song. . . . [This book] will have a broad appeal to scholars of the Bible (and the psalms in particular), scholars of art history and religious history, literary scholars and those interested in early modern sexuality.” —The History of Women Religious“King’oo lays out a concentrated argument for the centrality of the Penitential Psalms and what she calls a ‘penitential hermeneutic’ in both late medieval and early modern culture. . . . The monograph makes a solid case for the need for further study in this area.” —The Medieval Review“A fascinating and impressively composed monograph. . . . King’oo’s study is at its finest and most compelling in her analysis of individual adaptations of the Penitential Psalms, where close reading merges richly with attention to historical context and textual details.” —Comitatus“King’oo is especially perceptive in her attention to textual and literary detail, and she offers many valuable insights into the dynamic life of old traditions carried through time. Read as a whole or as selected essays, this book gives helpful case studies for those looking for a highly nuanced understanding of the continuities and discontinuities between the late medieval and early modern uses of biblical texts.” —Religious Studies Review“King’oo’s study distinguishes itself among other excellent scholarly works on the Psalter for its carefully considered focus on the unique textual tradition of the Seven Penitential Psalms. . . . Given King’oo’s training as a literary scholar, her attention to the Penitential Psalms’ form, genre, language, and even the material texts in which they were available yields exciting interpretations of their nuanced revisions and their implied audiences.” —Church History“Her writing is clear and engaging and stylistically sophisticated. This is a thoroughly enjoyable and well-researched book whose focus, although seemingly narrow, sheds much light on the some of the central controversies of the early modern period.” —Speculum“Miserere Mei convincingly and originally answers a number of the questions raised by the use and persistence of these Psalms, and offers new ones that we didn’t know enough to ask previously. . . . The greatest strengths of the book may be the ostensible narrowness and concreteness of its focus. By limiting her attention to the penitential Psalms, King’oo has written a monograph that is unusually coherent and organic, given the span of time and range of genres covered.” —Renaissance Quarterly“The book offers itself both as a valuable cultural history of the penitential psalms and as a model for rethinking outdated yet still dominant modes of historical periodization.” —Modern Language Review
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HarperCollins Publishers Courtesans and Fishcakes The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
Book SynopsisA brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians’ consuming passions for food, wine and sex.Trade Review‘Davidson is the best thing to happen to ancient history writing for decades’Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday ‘There are pleasures and authors who lie dormant for a century or more until a new kind of vividness, a super-freshness descends on them. James Davidson has that skill.’Spectator ‘If little boys are still being made to learn dead languages, and expected to enjoy them, I hope their Greek master reads Davidson’s fascinating and witty book, and tells them the best stories from it. This certainly ought to wake them up at the back of the class.’Sunday Times
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Penguin Putnam Inc Crete 1941 The Battle and the Resistance
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Penguin Putnam Inc To Hell and Back
Book SynopsisChilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking…. Kershaw documents each and every ‘ism’ of his analysis with extraordinary detail and passionate humanism.—The New York Times Book ReviewThe Penguin History of Europe series reaches the twentieth century with acclaimed scholar Ian Kershaw’s long-anticipated analysis of the pivotal years of World War I and World War II. The European catastrophe, the long continuous period from 1914 to 1949, was unprecedented in human history—an extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly fascinating period of upheaval and transformation. This new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series offers comprehensive coverage of this tumultuous era. Beginning with the outbreak of World War I through the rise of Hitler and the aftermath of
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd In the Steps of the Black Prince: The Road to
Book SynopsisThe author has retraced on foot the routes taken by the Black Prince during the French campaigns of 1355-1356, enabling him to provide an entirely new dimension to the events. In 1355 the Black Prince took an army to Bordeaux and embarked on two chevauchées (mounted military expeditions, generally characterised by the devastation of the surrounding towns and countryside), which culminated in hisdecisive victory over King Jean II of France at Poitiers the following year. Using the recorded itineraries as his starting point, the author of this book walked more than 1,300 miles across France, retracing the routes of the armies in search of a greater understanding of the Black Prince's expedition. He followed the 1355 chevauchée from Bordeaux to the Mediterranean and back, and that for 1356 from Aquitaine to the Loire, to the battlefield at Poitiers, and back again to Bordeaux. Drawing on his findings on the ground, a wide range of documentary sources, and the work of local historians, many of whom the author met on his travels, the book provides a unique perspective on the Black Prince's chevauchées of 1355 and 1356 and the battle of Poitiers, one of the greatest English triumphs of the Hundred Years War, demonstrating in particular the impact of the landscape on the campaigns. Peter Hoskins is a former Royal Air Force pilot, now living in France. He combines his interest in exploration of his adopted country with his research into the Hundred Years War.Trade ReviewHoskins's attention to detail brings the fourteenth-century chevauchées to life, allowing tantalising glimpses into the social and physical aspects at play among the men. This is an enjoyable and informative work. * PARERGON *An interesting contribution to our understanding of this crucial battle. * HISTORYOFWAR.ORG *An ideal stand-alone source, built around an excellent historical narrative, useful on the spot and, critically, good maps! * DESPATCHES *The real value of this book.is in the wealth of details woven into Haskins's narrative. The constantly unfolding and changing landscape is skilfully depicted, informing the narrative analysis of strategic decisions taken. * HOBILAR *A fascinating study which enhances our understanding of the way chevauchées unfolded as well as impressing us even further with the qualities of the Black Prince and the resilience of his men. [...] It stands as a new and imaginative approach to the subject. * H-FRANCE REVIEW *This impressive study is based on Hoskins' personal knowledge of the landscape and local history, combined with the use of the chronicles and modern historical viewpoints. The author points out the difficult terrain and issues with logistical matters that impacted the expeditions. The work includes numerous photographs and maps indicating the path of the chevauchées. It is a fine addition to the literature on the Edwardian War. * INTERNATIONAL HISTORY *Well written and gives a lot of information. [...] All the essential information is there and the reader will gain insight into how the battle [of Poitiers] took place. * MEDIEVAL WARFARE *Hoskins' book is a valuable and insightful contribution to our knowledge of the road to Poitiers and the strategy of the medieval English chevauchée. His firsthand experience of the terrain, his understanding of tactics and strategy, and his careful use of the extant sources inform every page of the book, making In the Steps of the Black Prince a must for an historian of the Hundred Years War. * DE RE MILITARI *Another first-rate Boydell title. [...] I can think of few accounts of medieval warfare which read as well as this one. * LONE WARRIOR *Hoskins' book is the product of a fascinating exercise and the author's approach can be of considerable value when dealing with differences between sources. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Aided by fine maps this is a solid reconstruction of medieval warfare. * CONNEXION *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Medieval Clothing and Textiles 1
Book SynopsisFirst volume in new series dedicated to medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction and re-enactment. The study of medieval clothing and textiles has aroused great attention in recent years, as part of the growing concern in material culture as a whole; apart from its own intrinsic interest, it has much to reveal about life at thetime. This exciting new series aims to offer all those interested in the subject the fruits of the best research in the area. Interdisciplinary in approach, it will feature work from the fields of social and economic history, history of techniques and technology, art history, archaeology, literary and non-literary texts, and language, while experimental reconstruction of medieval techniques or artifacts will also form a particular focus. The contents of each volume are selected to cover a broad geographical scope, as well as a range of periods from early medieval to the late Middle Ages. The journal also publishes short reviews of new books. Topics in this first volume include Anglo-Saxon embroidery; textiles and textile imagery in the Exeter Book; the tippet; the regulation of clerical dress; and evidence for dress and textiles in late medieval English wills. ROBIN NETHERTON is a costumehistorian. Her research focuses on Western European clothing between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture, University of Manchester. She has a special interest in dress throughout the medieval period - she advises on dress entries to the Toronto Old English Dictionary and has consulted for many museums and television companies.Table of ContentsStitches in Time: Establishing a History of Anglo-Saxon Embroidery - Elizabeth Coatsworth Textiles and Textile Imagery in the Exeter Book - Maren Clegg Hyer Pomp, Piety, and Keeping the Woman in her Place: The Dress of Cnut and Ælfgifu-Emma - Gale R. Owen-Crocker Wrapped in a Blue Mantle: Fashions for Icelandic Slayers? - Sandra Ballif Straubhaar The Orientation of Strikers in Medieval Fulling Mills: The Role of the `French' Gualchiera - John Muendel Bad Habits: Clothing and Textile References in the Register of Eudes Rigaud, Archbishop of Rouen - Susan Carroll-Clark Forbidden Colors in the Regulation of Clerical Dress from the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) to the time of Nicholas of Cusa (d. 1464)(d. 1464) - Thomas M. Izbicki The Tippet: Accessory after the Fact? - Robin Netherton Threads Bared: Dress and Textiles in Late Medieval English Wills - Kristen M. Burkholder Giovanna Cenami's Veil: A Neglected Detail - Carla Tilghman
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Little, Brown Book Group Beating Napoleon
Book Synopsis''If it had not been for you English, I should have been Emperor of the East; but wherever there is water to float a ship, we are sure to find you in our way.'' Emperor NapoleonBut just thirty-five years earlier, Britain lacked any major continental allies, and was wracked by crises and corruption. Many thought that she would follow France into revolution. The British elite had no such troubling illusions: defeat was not a possibility. Since not all shared that certainty, the resumption of the conflict and its pursuit through years of Napoleonic dominance is a remarkable story of aristocratic confidence and assertion of national superiority. Winning these wars meant ruthless imperialist expansion, spiteful political combat, working under a mad king and forging the most united national effort since the days of the Armada. And it meant setting the foundations for the greatest empire the world has ever known.Trade ReviewA vivid picture of how the British Empire not only had to defeat Napoleon but also some of its own people * Herald *
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The University of Chicago Press Rethinking France
Book SynopsisAssembled by Pierre Nora during the Mitterand years, the multi-volume series Les Lieux ds Memoire covers the history and culture of the French nation. This first volume in the translation brings together works addressing the omnipresent role of the state in French life.
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The University of Chicago Press Hitlers Geographies
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The University of Chicago Press The Marriage Exchange
Book SynopsisMedieval Douai left an enormous archive of documents. This text reveals how these documents were produced in an effort to regulate property and gender relations. At the centre was a shift to a property regime based on contract. The book explores why the law changed and assesses its effects.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Witchcraze
Book SynopsisIn the sixteenth century, a rise in sexual violence in European society was exacerbated by pressure from church and state to change basic sexual customs...As the centuries since have shown escalating levels both of violence, general and sexual, and of state control, the witchcraze can be considered a portent, even a model, of some aspects of what modern Europe would be like. Over three centuries, approximately one hundred thousand persons, most of whom were women, were put to death under the guise of witch hunts, particularly in Reformation Europe. The shocking annihilation of women from all walks of life is explored in this brilliant, authoritative feminist history Anne Llwellyn Barstow. Barstow exposes an unrecognized holocaust -- the ethnic cleansing of independent women in Reformation Europe -- and examines the residual attitudes that continue to influence our culture. Barstow argues that it is only with eyes sensitive to gender issues that we can dis
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University of California Press Laughter in Ancient Rome
Book SynopsisTrade Review"'Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up,' which has just been published, is an engaging exploration of what made the Romans laugh-bad breath, among other things-but it also explores dimensions of Roman sensibility that have become elusive to us." -- Rebecca Mead New Yorker "Few things are more tiresome than seeing a joke analyzed... Beard's book avoids pedantry but also its opposite, the archness that preens itself on 'not taking humor too seriously' and signals inane wordplays with 'pun intended!' More importantly, her treatment makes one look with new eyes ... even at works she does not herself discuss ... [a] stimulating book." -- Gregory Hays New York Review of Books "[Beard] makes the Romans come alive and through them, gets readers to ponder that most fundamental and uniquely human facility-laughter. The phenomenal Ms. Beard has written another cracking book, one of her best, I think." -- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown The Independent "Expect to be engaged by an enthralling book." -- Harry Mount The Spectator "[Beard's] central question is simple: what made the Romans laugh? Her answers are pleasingly complex... Beard is always enlightening, and writes with a perfect balance of forensic detail and wide-ranging intellect." The Scotsman "Superbly acute and unashamedly complex... To our vision of the solemn grandeur that was Rome, she restores a raucous, ghostly laughter." -- Iona McLaren The Telegraph "Written in Beard's trademark combination of erudition and effortless prose, Laughter in Ancient Rome is a fascinating combination of history, psychology, linguistic exploration and humor. This is scholarly writing at its best." -- Pamela Toler Shelf Awareness for Readers "You can read hundreds of books on Roman emperors and conquests; this represents a valiant attempt to bring a little understanding of a smaller, but no less important, part of what made Rome run." -- Rob Hardy Columbus Commercial Dispatch "Rich and provocative." -- Roy Gibson TLS "Like a great piece of archaeology, 'Laughter in Ancient Rome' allows us to glimpse ourselves in the cracked mirror of a distant culture." -- John Domini Washington Post "What made the Romans laugh? It's an incredible, almost childlike thought to have. But in this characteristically brilliant book by Mary Beard, this simple thought becomes a mental projection that conjures up the world of Rome as well or better than any book in recent memory." -- Jonathon Sturgeon Flavorwire "This is a very sensible, readable, and useful volume... A valuable contribution to scholarship on a difficult topic." -- Kristina Milnor Bryn Mawr "A fun read ... accessible yet academic." -- Sarah Norfolk Bookworm "Beard has posed excellent questions about Roman laughter ... Her engaging style of writing draws the reader into the discussion... A must read." -- John R. Clarke American Historical Review Beard's ability to draw together a wide array of ancient and modern references in her discussions is impressive... Laughter in Ancient Rome succeeds in leading sympathetic readers on a stimulating journey through Roman "laughterhood". PhoenixTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introducing Roman Laughter: Dio's "Giggle" and Gnatho's Two Laughs PART ONE 2. Questions of Laughter, Ancient and Modern 3. The History of Laughter 4. Roman Laughter in Latin and Greek PART TWO 5. The Orator 6. From Emperor to Jester 7. Between Human and Animal--Especially Monkeys and Asses 8. The Laughter Lover Afterword Acknowledgments Texts and Abbreviations Notes References List of Illustrations and Credits Index
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University of California Press Ghosts of Home
Book SynopsisIn modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the 'Vienna of the East' under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II. This memoir chronicles the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory.Trade Review"[This] monumental book ... is a stunning marriage of intellectual curiosity and personal search. [It] reads with the poignancy of memoir, yet in a collective voice... The overarching authorial voice is nuanced and reflective but also informed. " Pri's The World "Hirsch and Spitzer expose the complex layers that inform our understanding of the past." Jewish Book World "Unique ... Ghosts of Home collects the fragments of one place and provides us with an artifact that is as close as we will ever come to 'perfect rest.'" Tikkun Magazine "An interesting volume." German Studies Review "Eminently readable... Hirsch's depiction of prewar Jewish life is masterful." -- Norman Ravvin Canadian Jewish News "The ability to observe, evaluate, and contextualize habits and specific objects is one of the greatest strengths of this book." Austrian History YearbookTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Part One "We would not have come without you," 1998 1 / "Where are you from?" 2 / Vienna of the East 3 / Strolling the Herrengasse 4 / The Idea of Czernowitz 5 / "Are we really in the Soviet Union?" 6 / The Crossroads Part Two The Darker Side, 2000 7 / Maps to Nowhere 8 / The Spot on the Lapel 9 / "There was never a camp here!" 10 / "This was once my home" Part Three Ghosts of Home, 2006 11 / The Persistence of Czernowitz 12 / The Tile Stove Epilogue, 2008 Chernivtsi at Six Hundred Notes Selected Readings Index
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University of California Press Beyond Anne Frank
Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews with seventy Jewish men and women who, as children, were placed in non-Jewish families during the Nazi occupation of Holland, this book paints a portrait of Holocaust survivors whose experiences were often diametrically opposed to the experiences of those who suffered in concentration camps.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The History and Memory of Hidden Children 2. Before and During the War: The Netherlands and the Jews 3. After the War: The Jews and the Netherlands 4. "My Mother Screamed and Screamed": Memories of Occupation, War, and Hiding 5. "I Came Home, but I Was Homesick": When Both Parents Returned 6. "They Were Out of Their Minds": When One Parent Returned 7. "Who Am I?": Orphans Living with Families 8. "There Was Never a Kind Word": Life in Jewish Orphanages 9. Creating Postwar Lives, Creating Collective Memory: From the Personal to the Political Conclusion Notes Glossary References Index
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University of California Press Charlemagne
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Barbero's lively and entertaining study provides a superb overview of the latest scholarship on the Carolingian age and constructs a compelling argument for Charlemagne's pivotal role as the father of Europe. We gain a sense of the look and feel of peasant villages, the dynamic interplay of monastic economies and long-distance trade, and the manipulation of justice by local notables. This is histoire totale at its best." - Sharon Farmer, author of Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris; "This up-to-date account focuses on the man and his times while clearly and judiciously dealing with key historiographical issues. Barbero explores and explodes the myths that have grown up around the emperor." - Barbara H. Rosenwein, Loyola University"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Paderborn, Summer of 799 1. The Frankish Tradition 2. The War against the Lombards 3. Wars against the Pagans 4. The Rebirth of Empire 5. Charlemagne and Europe 6. The Man and His Family 7. Government of the Empire: The Institutions 8. Government of the Empire: The Resources 9. Government of the Empire: The Justice System 10. An Intellectual Project 11. The Frankish Military Machine 12. A New Economy 13. Patronage and Servitude 14. Old Age and Death Notes Bibliography Index
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Cambridge University Press The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History
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Cambridge University Press The Ancient City Key Themes in Ancient History
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Taylor & Francis The European WitchHunt
Book SynopsisThe European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North America. Combining perspectives from history, sociology, psychology and other disciplines, this book provides a comprehensive account of witch-hunting in early modern Europe. Julian Goodare sets out an original interpretation of witch-hunting as an episode of ideologically-driven persecution by the godly state' in the era of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Full weight is also given to the context of village social relationships, and there is a detailed analysis of gender issues. Witch-hunting was a legal operation, and the courts' rationale for interrogation under torture is explained. Panicking local elites, rather than central governments, were at the forefront of witch-hunting. Further chapters explore folk beliTrade Review"This is a wonderful work, with real pace, clarity and sparkle which combines excellent scholarship with a full recognition of the emotive quality of the material. It will exactly suit the intelligent, enquiring and thoughtful among students and general readers, and be of real interest and value to scholars."Ronald E. Hutton, University of Bristol, UK "This book excellently presents the different layers of meaning of witchcraft and witch trials all over Europe. Julian Goodare combines a sublime understanding of the topic with a personal interpretation in writing about one of the greatest enigmas in history: What was a witch and why were witches persecuted by their neighbors as well as by the state? The book provides a most fruitful resource for students and scholars in presenting new research and new perspectives on the history of witchcraft."Rita Voltmer, University of Trier, Germany"Julian Goodare's The European Witch-Hunt is a valuable addition to the study of early modern witchcraft and witch-hunting. Goodare devotes extra attention to explaining the mentalities, both illiterate and erudite, that converged to create the stereotype of the witch. His explanations of recurrent themes in ideas about witchcraft will be particularly helpful to students and prepares them for a better understanding of primary texts and more specialized secondary studies." Walter Stephens, John Hopkins University, USA“In this illuminating book, Goodare (Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland) explores the subjects of witches and witch-hunts in early modern Europe, 1400–1750, maintaining that these years rather than the Middle Ages were the "witch years." He makes it clear that "although everyone feared witches, they did not all fear them in the same way" and offers readers a linked, fourfold concept of witchcraft to support this view … An excellent bibliography, a map, charts, and a helpful appendix accompany the book, which complements studies by Brian Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (CH, Sep'87; 4th ed. 2016); Robin Briggs, Witches & Neighbors (1996); and Lyndal Roper, Witch Craze (CH, Nov'05, 43-1819)."L. B. Gimelli, Eastern Michigan University"This is a wonderful work, with real pace, clarity and sparkle which combines excellent scholarship with a full recognition of the emotive quality of the material. It will exactly suit the intelligent, enquiring and thoughtful among students and general readers, and be of real interest and value to scholars."Ronald E. Hutton, University of Bristol, UK "This book excellently presents the different layers of meaning of witchcraft and witch trials all over Europe. Julian Goodare combines a sublime understanding of the topic with a personal interpretation in writing about one of the greatest enigmas in history: What was a witch and why were witches persecuted by their neighbors as well as by the state? The book provides a most fruitful resource for students and scholars in presenting new research and new perspectives on the history of witchcraft."Rita Voltmer, University of Trier, GermanyTable of ContentsIntroduction: THE WITCH-HUNT AND YOU Chapter 1: WITCHCRAFT! Chapter 2: TOWARDS WITCH-HUNTING Chapter 3: WITCHCRAFT AND THE INTELLECTUALS Chapter 4: WITCHES IN THE COMMUNITY Chapter 5: WITCHCRAFT AND FOLK BELIEFChapter 6: WITCHES AND THE GODLY STATE Chapter 7: WITCHES IN COURT Chapter 8: THE DYNAMICS OF WITCH-HUNTING Chapter 9: WOMEN, MEN AND WITCHCRAFT Chapter 10: THE END OF WITCH-HUNTINGChapter 11: PERSPECTIVES ON THE WITCH-HUNT FURTHER READING APPENDIX: INTENSITY OF WITCH-HUNTING IN EUROPE INDEX
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Imperial Russia 18011905
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Peloponnesian War 431404 BC Essential Histories
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Cambridge University Press Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic 18701920
Book SynopsisKaren Offen offers a magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the debates around relations between women and men, how they are constructed, and how they should be organized, that raged in France and its French-speaking neighbors from 1870 to 1920. The ''woman question'' encompassed subjects from maternity and childbirth, and the upbringing and education of girls to marriage practices and property law, the organization of households, the distribution of work inside and outside the household, intimate sexual relations, religious beliefs and moral concerns, government-sanctioned prostitution, economic and political citizenship, and the politics of population growth. The book shows how the expansion of economic opportunities for women and the drop in the birth rate further exacerbated the debates over their status, roles, and possibilities. With the onset of the First World War, these debates were temporarily placed on hold, but they would be revived by 1916 and gain momentum during France''s post-war recovery.Trade Review'No one has done more over the past forty years to establish women's history in the scholarship of the French Third Republic than Karen Offen. Now, in Debating the Woman Question, we have her chef d'oeuvre. It was worth the wait: a deeply thought-out analysis of many sides of the 'woman question' from maternity through education to religion and economics. It is a must-read for anyone interested in modern France.' Steven C. Hause, Professor Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis and University of Missouri, St. Louis'This is a brilliant reconstruction and analysis of eight decades of heated quarrels in which feminists, female as well as male, talked back to anti-feminists, contesting male authority, in France as well as in other francophone and neighboring countries. A fascinating wealth of sources, many of them unknown heretofore, inform and contextualize the analysis which leads up to Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and will certainly arouse important scholarly debates.' Gisela Bock, Freie Universität Berlin'The work of a celebrated pioneer in the history of women, Karen Offen's much anticipated history of the woman question in France, is a deeply researched, erudite study of the multifaceted debates that engaged women and men across the political spectrum during the first fifty years of the Third Republic. A variety of topics emerged: the intelligence, nature, duties, rights, and other characteristics of women that qualified them for or disqualified them from full citizenship and public responsibility. The rich debate plus the engaging cast of characters should finally discredit the cliche that French women thinkers and activists were less evolved than feminist activists elsewhere. Given the widening interest in feminism today, Offen's incomparable scholarship is a foundational resource.' Bonnie G. Smith, Rutgers University, New Jersey'It is difficult to convey how impressive Offen's two books are, and this summary cannot do justice to them. There is no historian better versed in the intricacies of the women question in France and the breadth of the scholarship on display is breathtaking. Offen also writes beautifully. The prose is clear and lucid, and every chapter demonstrates the depth of her knowledge.' Christine Adams, H-France'One finishes reading Offen's books in deep gratitude for the monumental labor that she invested in writing them. Thanks to the author's sustained, forthright pursuit of this new narrative in French history, many more topics now deserve further study … what elements of France's specificity in the contested woman question contributed to the country's slow, troubled modernization? What role, if any, did the debate have in France's overseas territories where race and ethnicity were also at play, especially in the interwar period? Such queries naturally arise from Offen's magisterial work, its shrewd insights and compelling detail …' James Smith Allen, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsGeneral introduction: 'what do women want?' and quotations; Part I. Familiarization: Romance with the Republic, 1870s–1889: 1. Relaunching the Republican campaign for women's rights: 2. Educators, medical and social scientists, and population experts debate the woman question, 1870–1889; 3: The politics of the family, women's work, and public morality, 1870–1890; 4. The revolutionary centennial: promoting women and women's rights at the 1889 International Exposition in Paris; Part II. Encounter: the Third Republic Faces Feminist Claims, 1890–1900: Quotations and introductory remarks; 5. The birth and 'take-off' of feminism in republican France; 6: Rights or protection for working women?; 7. Must maternity be women's form of patriotism? 8. The new century greets the woman question, 1900; Part III. Climax: Mainstreaming the Woman Question, 1901–1914: Quotations and introductory remarks; 9. Building a force to reckon with the Republic: The Conseil National des Femmes Françaises and its allies, 1900–1914; 10. Defining, historicizing, contesting, and defending feminism: early 20th century developments; 11. Refocusing the state: depopulation, maternity, and the quest for a woman-friendly state; 12. Emerging labor issues: equal pay for equal work, travail à domicile, and women's right to work; 13. 'The alpha and omega of our demands' – the women's suffrage campaigns heat up, 1906–1914; Part IV. Anti-Climax: the Great War and its Aftermath: Quotations and introductory remarks; 14. The Great War and the woman question; 15. 'Half the human race': epilogue and conclusion; Afterword; Appendix: important dates for the woman question debates; Index.
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The University of Chicago Press A Very Queer Family Indeed Sex Religion and the
Book SynopsisWe can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind. So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen Victoria's reign, while his wife, Mary, was renowned for her wit and charm the prime minister once wondered whether she was the cleverest woman in England or in Europe. The couple's six precocious children included E. F. Benson, celebrated creator of the Mapp and Lucia novels, and Margaret Benson, the first published female Egyptologist. What interests Simon Goldhill most, however, is what went on behind the scenes, which was even more unusual than anyone could imagine. Inveterate writers, the Benson family spun out novels, essays, and thousands of letters that open stunning new perspectives including what it might mean for an adult to kiss and propose marriage to a twelve-year-old girl,
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Epicurean Tradition
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Harvard University Press The Malmedy Massacre
Book SynopsisDuring the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American prisoners near Malmedy, Belgiumthe deadliest mass execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. Drawing on newly declassified documents, Steven Remy revisits the massacre and the most infamously controversial war crimes trial in American history, to set the record straight.Trade ReviewA first-rate book. Remy’s superb analysis shows how virtually every element of the standard narrative on the Malmedy trials is wrong. -- Devin O. Pendas, author of The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963–1965Steven Remy’s The Malmedy Massacre is an important read for anyone interested in the politics of international justice. Using a broad array of investigative and intelligence records, he reconstructs and then dispels the enduring myth that upright German soldiers were tortured into false confessions—a fiction born of lingering antisemitism, Cold War politics, and an international effort to rewrite the Nazi past. -- Norman J. W. Goda, author of Tales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold WarAn impressive and important book. Remy demolishes a lot of the mythmaking surrounding the Malmedy massacre and tells a story that makes the early years of the Cold War in Germany and America look very different and often very surprising. This highly readable and engaging account should fascinate anyone interested in World War II and its aftermath. -- Benjamin Carter Hett, author of Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery[The] definitive new study of the Malmedy trials…The Malmedy Massacre does an especially sensitive job at picking apart the psychological factors involved…Remy lays out those facts with eloquent clarity and displays a commendable impatience throughout his book at the persistence of the alternate narrative itself…This is as much a story about the battle for history as it is about one set of atrocity trials. The names Remy stitches together in his account will be unfamiliar to readers, but the account itself is one for the permanent collection. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *The story of how a massacre of U.S. soldiers came to be remembered as an instance of American abuse of defenseless Nazis is the subject of Steven Remy’s rigorously researched new book, The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy. Remy is hardly the first historian to write about the Malmedy affair. But whereas previous histories have largely accepted the myth of U.S. malfeasance, The Malmedy Massacre convincingly corrects the record. In so doing, Remy offers a timely study of the process of historical mythmaking—how false and distorted accounts come to constitute their own durable reality…The Malmedy Massacre is a solid account of history that current events have contrived to make exceptionally relevant. Remy could not have researched and written The Malmedy Massacre in anticipation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s politics of misinformation, yet he has delivered a sustained exploration into the creation, circulation, and ultimate acceptance of ‘alternative facts.’ What makes this story particularly poignant is that Remy is not really telling us anything new. As he makes clear, the record had already been corrected by the Baldwin committee report nearly 70 years ago. What he documents, then, is the tenacity and durability of fake history. To those who subscribe to the pleasing shibboleth that the truth will always come out, Remy has delivered a disturbing counterexample. -- Lawrence Douglas * Foreign Affairs *[Remy] writes in a vivid, engaging and sometimes darkly (yet never inappropriately) humorous manner, and conveys the ongoing importance of the broader issues effectively. This is a significant, scholarly and highly recommended contribution to understanding a war crimes trial whose resonance remains palpable seventy years on. -- Ben H. Shepherd * German History Review *Remy has written an absorbing and authoritative analysis of the Malmedy controversy. -- Christopher Dillon * American Historical Review *
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Harvard University Press The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence
Book SynopsisBrown demonstrates how Florentine thinkers used Lucretius—earlier and more widely than has been supposed—to provide a radical critique of prevailing orthodoxies. She enhances our understanding of the “revolution” in sixteenth-century political thinking and our definition of the Renaissance within newly discovered worlds and new social networks.Trade ReviewBrown has reconstructed, with rare skill and a discerning eye for textual detail and literary allusion, a crucial chapter in the intellectual history of the Renaissance. She uncovers not only the depth of Lucretius's influence on leading Florentine humanists and political thinkers, including Machiavelli, but also the links among them that make this a tightly knit, unified story. This original and important book is a major contribution that will challenge current orthodoxies about Renaissance philosophy and religious thought and their relation to humanism and political ideas. -- John M. Najemy, Cornell UniversityBrown unearths the roots of modern religious skepticism, atomism, and theories of the universe in the rediscovery of Epicurus and his Roman avatar Lucretius in fifteenth-century Florence. She charts the influence of his De rerum natura in the writings of Leonardo Bruni, Lorenzo Valla, Leon Battista Alberti, Marsilio Ficino, Niccolò Machiavelli, and others in a city increasingly torn by civil strife. This book is a must-read for all concerned not only with the humanist revolution in Renaissance Italy but also the origins of Enlightenment thought in Europe. -- Diana Robin, University of New MexicoAlison Brown has made an important contribution to a crucial chapter in the history of modern thought. Tracking manuscript circulation and following a complex trail of hints and buried allusions, Brown explores the ways in which an ancient poem dangerously at odds with Christian orthodoxy subtly penetrated key intellectual networks. -- Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard UniversityThe rediscovery of Lucretius during the Renaissance invited readers to wonder whether God intervened in human affairs, even as they marveled at the understated, hauntingly beautiful Latin. Lucretius and his brand of Epicureanism were important to the period in all its manifestations, and now Brown offers a groundbreaking, clearly written study that every scholar concerned with the Italian Renaissance will want to read carefully. -- Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University
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Harvard University Press The Peoples Car
Book SynopsisBernhard Rieger reveals how a car commissioned by Hitler and designed by Ferdinand Porsche became a global commodity on a par with Coca-Cola. The Beetle’s success hinged on its uncanny ability to capture the imaginations of executives, engineers, advertisers, car collectors, suburbanites, hippies, and everyday drivers across nations and cultures.Trade Review[An] illuminating and elegantly written history… Rieger is particularly good on the gendered nature of Beetle ownership. At a time when fewer than 20 percent of driving licenses in West Germany were held by women, the Beetle became a vehicle for what he calls ‘automotive misogyny.’ …He is very good…on its appeal in the United States, where it became a popular second car for many families in the expanding suburbs of the 1950s and 1960s… It even became an icon of the counterculture. -- Richard J. Evans * London Review of Books *Bernhard Rieger’s The People’s Car conveys how inextricably 20th-century politics, culture and economics are linked… The story of ‘the people’s car’ is, of course, interesting in its own right—its commission, design, post-war production and worldwide success. But what is most intriguing is how a consumer commodity became an icon that, over decades, represented something different for a variety of countries and generations. Rieger shows this to informative and illuminating effect. -- Ulrike Zitzlsperger * Times Higher Education *The People’s Car by Bernhard Rieger chronicles the life of the iconic Volkswagen Beetle, from its 1930s origin as a propaganda tool for Germany’s Third Reich through to the modern day, a run of popularity spanning a remarkable nine decades. Rieger’s research details the car maker’s obsessive pursuit for high-quality, low-maintenance and utterly dependable motoring, which were the treasured hallmarks of the Beetle through the middle part of the 20th century… While the meteoric postwar rise of the Beetle presents a chance to marvel at the model’s simple appeal and outstanding longevity, the years before its manufacture began present the most fascinating reading… The People’s Car is an exhaustive…and fascinating glimpse at a car that stood the test of time and of changing consumer tastes. -- Steve Colquhoun * Sydney Morning Herald *Bernhard Rieger tells the story of the Beetle and he does so with wit and ease… A German chronicle that always keeps an eye on international entanglements. [Rieger’s] cultural history with a transnational reach is…the intelligent alternative to traditional national historiography. -- Hedwig Richter * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *An engaging history of how a failed Nazi prestige project became a national icon in three different countries… A provocative look at one product’s unlikely journey through authoritarianism and globalization. -- Joshua Keating * Foreign Policy online *From its original design by Ferdinand Porsche, commissioned by Hitler in the 1930s, to its role as a symbol of a new, post–World War II Germany, the Beetle became second only to Ford’s Model T as a car for the masses and, eventually, a feature of the emergence of the middle class… This overview of the car’s journey from its Third Reich conception to lovable international representation of a renewed Germany is sure to interest die-hard Beetle lovers as well as automobile history buffs. -- Maria Bagshaw * Library Journal (starred review) *The Beetle had a stupendous run, which…Bernhard Rieger traces in his absorbing account… Rieger has written a fascinating book that will inevitably find resonance among those who were themselves touched by the magic of an object made of steel, glass, and plastic that was designed in the heart of Hitler’s Reich. -- Paul Hockenos * The National *The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle is a thorough and compelling new chronicle of the distinctive Bug. -- Jessica Grose * Fast Company online *The story of the Volkswagen Beetle is complex, interesting, international, unlikely, and utterly fascinating. Rieger does an excellent job of bringing together the history, events, and people that produced an iconic automobile that beat all the odds. -- C. J. Myers * Choice *Rieger has succeeded in presenting the first comprehensive account of the truly amazing story of the Volkswagen Beetle. Starting with Hitler’s plans to provide a mass-produced people’s car for his projected ‘Aryan’ society, he shows how this ‘ugly duckling’ became an icon of postwar mass motorization around the world. A compelling read. -- V. R. Berghahn, Columbia UniversityRieger extracts from the history of the Volkswagen not just the story of a product—iconic though it was—but also its significance for Germany’s national image since the 1930s. Deeply researched, this history makes a cracking good read. -- Jane Caplan, coeditor of Concentration Camps in Germany: The New HistoriesWith great richness and imagination, Rieger joins economics and social desire, advertising and politics, technology and culture, to track a distinctive German history through a truly transnational arena. -- Geoff Eley, author of Nazism as Fascism: Violence, Ideology, and the Ground of Consent in Germany, 1930–1945A fascinating book! Rieger takes readers on the Volkswagen Beetle’s global journey, showing the many meanings of this iconic product in different times and places. His history illuminates the worldwide allure of commodity culture, the spread of socioeconomic inequalities, and the protean meanings of purchased goods. -- Emily S. Rosenberg, editor of A World Connecting: 1870–1945
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Renaissance Europe 14801520 Second Edition
Book SynopsisThe new edition of this classic history examines the political, economic, social, religious and cultural life of Europe at the height of the Renaissance. J.R. Hale not only records the events of 1480-1520, but also suggests what it was like to have lived in this period. He provides readers with an understanding of the quality of lives of people living at this time and includes processes and personalities not often covered by other books. For the second edition Professor Michael Mallet provides an updated bibliography and an extended introduction explaining the book''s place in the historiography of the subject. The book is arranged thematically, each chapter designed to provide information about a specific field of inquiry and also give an insight into the people of this era. J. R. Hale investigates how these people felt about their environment and the passage of time; their relationships with government and other institutions, from the Church to the family; their economic frTrade Review"Hale's picture of the years around 1500 is generally precise and not out-dated. He anticipated several areas of later writing, for example his emphasis on the history of the lower classes, on the impact of wars, on women's role in society, on social mobility among 'classes'. It is a book for the general public who already has some knowledge of the Renaissance." Gabor Almasi, Central European University Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Time and Space. 2. Political Europe. 3. Individual and Community. 4. Economic Europe. 5. Class. 6. Religion. 7. The Arts and their Audience. 8. Secular Learning. Appendix: Europe c. 1500: A Political Gazeteer. Maps. Bibliography. Index.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in Historical
Book SynopsisWomen's role in crusades and crusading examined through a close investigation of the narratives in which they appear. Narratives of crusading have often been overlooked as a source for the history of women because of their focus on martial events, and perceptions about women inhibiting the recruitment and progress of crusading armies. Yet women consistently appeared in the histories of crusade and settlement, performing a variety of roles. While some were vilified as "useless mouths" or prostitutes, others undertook menial tasks for the army, went on crusade with retinuesof their own knights, and rose to political prominence in the Levant and and the West. This book compares perceptions of women from a wide range of historical narratives including those eyewitness accounts, lay histories andmonastic chronicles that pertained to major crusade expeditions and the settler society in the Holy Land. It addresses how authors used events involving women and stereotypes based on gender, family role, and social status in writing their histories: how they blended historia and fabula, speculated on women's motivations, and occasionally granted them a literary voice in order to connect with their audience, impart moral advice, and justify the crusade ideal. NATASHA HODGSON is Lecturer in Medieval History at Nottingham Trent University..Trade ReviewThis is a learned book and a fine testimony to its author's firm grasp on her subject. [...] This book makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning studies of women and the crusades, and is recommended for its careful methodological approach and its thorough scholarship. * CRUSADES *A thoroughly researched, scholarly survey of the role and depiction of royal and noble women in the crusades to the Middle East and the so-called 'crusader states'. Provides a good general introduction to medieval women's history and the modern historiography of medieval women, which will recommend it to students and their lecturers. This is a valuable contribution to scholarship, which will be useful not only to students but also to any scholar studying medieval women or the crusades and the crusader states. * EHR *Hodgson's work makes a worthwhile addition to a typically male-dominated area of research. * STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEACHING *Table of ContentsIntroduction Literary Context Authorship Women in the History of Crusading and the Latin East Daughters Wives Mothers Widows Conclusion Bibliography Index
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University of California Press An Uncommon Friendship
Book SynopsisIn 1944, 13-year-old Fritz Tubach was almost old enough to join the Hitler Youth in his German village of Kleinheubach. That same year in Tab, Hungary, 12-year-old Bernie Rosner was loaded onto a train with the rest of the village's Jewish inhabitants and taken to Auschwitz, where his whole family was murdered.Trade Review"[A] remarkable book." Jewish Journal Of S.florida
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Harvard University Press Reviving the Eternal City
Book SynopsisIn the first half of the fifteenth century, Rome and the papal court were caught between conflicting realities--between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, conciliarism and papalism, an image of a restored republic and a dream of a papal capital. Elizabeth McCahill explores the transformation of Rome's ancient legacy into a potent cultural myth.Trade ReviewIn this masterful, original, and fluidly-written study of the intellectual and cultural milieu of the early Roman Renaissance, Elizabeth McCahill provides a rich and nuanced context for some of the most important humanist and artistic projects of the age. Readers of this book cannot help but come away with a richer and deeper appreciation of this foundational but surprisingly neglected era in early modern history. -- Brian Curran, Pennsylvania State UniversityMeticulous and riveting, Reviving the Eternal City offers a multifaceted history of the Roman Curia under Martin V and Eugenius IV. Through incisive readings of sources as diverse as a vintner's diary, the letters of established (and struggling) humanists, papal bulls and Filarete's bronze doors, McCahill proves that Rome's renewal began long before the first 'Renaissance' pope donned the tiara. -- Sarah Ross, Boston CollegeUsing unknown and little-studied sources, Elizabeth McCahill argues that Rome in the first half of the fifteenth century represented a site of intense study, contemporary cultural fascination, and, above all, interpretation. She offers readers access to worlds often hidden, from backstairs intrigue at the papal court to the desks of solitary scholars. This book is a fine example of socially-informed intellectual history, written with exemplary clarity and incisive intelligence. -- Christopher Celenza, Johns Hopkins University
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Harvard University Press The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes
Book SynopsisProgymnasmata, exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through Byzantine times. The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes, translated here into English for the first time, illuminate teaching and literary culture in one of the most important epochs of the Byzantine Empire.Trade Review[This translation] brilliantly captures Basilakes’s individual style as well as the intricacies of his rhetorical skills…The volume’s presentation is meticulous. -- Sophia Xenophontos * Speculum *
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Princeton University Press The House of Government
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mammoth and profusely researched... A work begging to be debated; Slezkine aggregates mountains of detail for an enthralling account of the rise and fall of the revolutionary generation."--Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Bear Went Over the Mountain Soviet Combat
Book SynopsisThis collection of vignettes was written by Soviet junior officers describing their experiences fighting the Mujahideen guerillas. It is not a history of the Soviet-Afghan war, but snapshots of combat as seen by young platoon leaders, company commanders, battalion commanders and military advisers.Table of ContentsThis volume puts a human face on the Soviet Afghan experience and begins to add flesh and blood to our previously skeletal appreciation of the war ... The book provides a revealing portrait of war in general, tactics in particular, and, coincidentally, the soldiers "human condition"." David M GlantzMilitary History Illustrated-"This is an interesting and unusual book from Cass, composed of several reports written by Soviet junior officers describing their experiences fighting the Mujahideen in Afghanistan"Army Quarterly and Defense Journal- "...making the work valuable for all those likely to be involved in similar future conflicts.."RTR PUBLICATIONS LTD- "I doubt if any of the "superpowers" will try again, but if they do, then this series of books should be invaluable, although many of the lessons they teach, can be equally well applied to other areas in inhospitable terrain and implacable foes."Engineer - "The Bear Went Over the Mountains provides an outstanding look at and commentary on Soviet tactics against the mujahideen fighters from 1979 to 1989...The Bear Went Over the Mountain is a valuable learning tool, especially for leaders at the battalion level and below."TANK -"I doubt if the "superpowers"will try again, but if they do, then this series of books should be invaluable, although many of the lessons they teach, can be equally well applied to other areas in inhospitable terrain and implacable foes."Armor-"This book offers valuable professional insight into the Russian military"s tactics and operational art, and their ability and willingness to innovate. Intelligence and operations officers might find the vignettes an excellent source as they design wargame and training scenarios in preparing units for deployment" Marine Corps Gazette- " The volume provides plenty of material to motivate serious thinking. This book is worth yout time. The individual reader can stimulate his thinking with the variety of situations. The instructor can draw on this volume to illustrate his points, pose tactical decision problems, and motivate an appreciation for minor tactics"European Security, Vol 8, No 1, Spring 99 - reviewed by Major James C. Larsen, Center for Army Tactics, Fort Leavenworth"This collection of vignettes on the Soviet experience in Afghanistan is essential reading for the soldier and military historian ... For the young platoon leader of compant commander who may face a guerilla threat, the book may help him understand how to win - or how to lose. For the historian who may be well acquainted with the war, many of Grau"s insights are truly original thought and will provide an entirely new perspective on the conflict."Parameters, Spring 2000"Grau translated, edited and added to the book, providing US perspectives and an analysis of the Frunze comments as well as vivid insights into Soviet troop practice."War in History"an excellent source for those wanting to understand how the Soviet army operated in Afghanistan
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Princeton University Press In Search of Sacred Time
Book SynopsisIt is impossible to understand the late Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The Golden Legend, the most popular medieval collection of saints' lives. Assembled for clerical use in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a best seller. This title deals with this book.Trade Review"Generally arranged in order of the church year, beginning with Advent, the saints' lives appear chronologically, thus representing liturgical time, calendar time, sanctoral time, and divine time--the latter organizing sacred history into four periods from creation to consummation... This interpretive book by a master will complement the original text for medievalists and their students."--Choice "A testament to Le Goff's deep understanding of and passion for the Middle Ages. He breathes new life into a frequently studied subject... In Search of Sacred Time offers both an innovative look into the past and the work of a historian whose research continues to influence successive generations of scholars. The vitality and spirit of ingenuity with which Le Goff describes the Golden Legend and its author is a reminder of the overall message of his scholarship."--Kristina Markman, Comitatus Praise for the French edition:"We too often forget that Christianity is not merely a belief or value system, but a conception of time sanctified by the coming of Christ... To understand this, there is nothing better than reading this new book by Jacques Le Goff."--Paul Francois Paoli, Le Figaro Litteraire Praise for the French edition:"Astonishing erudition and familiarity... With Jacques Le Goff there is one thing that we are sure not to waste. Our time."--Laurent Lemire, Le Nouvel ObservateurTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv 1. Jacobus de Voragine in His Time 1 2. The Major Inspirations for Jacobus de Voragine 9 3. The Prologue and the Temporale 14 * The Prologue 14 * The Temporale 19 4. The Sanctorale 22 * Saintliness and Christianity 22 * Saints in the Golden Legend 24 * All Saints Day 26 5. The Time of Renewal 33 * Advent 33 * The Saints of Advent 35 * Saint Andrew, Apostle 36 * Saint Nicholas 39 * Saint Lucy, Virgin 45 * Saint Thomas, Apostle 47 6. The Time of Reconciliation and Pilgrimage 51 * The Birth of Our Lord: Jesus According to the Flesh 52 * Saint Anastasia 55 * Saint Stephen 56 * Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist 59 * The Holy Innocents 62 * Saint Thomas of Canterbury 63 * Saint Sylvester 65 * The Circumcision of the Lord and the Epiphany of the Lord 68 * Saint Paul, Hermit, and Saint Anthony 73 * Saint Paul 76 * Saint John the Almsgiver 81 7. The Time of Deviation 84 * From Septuagesima to Quadragesima 86 * The Ember Day Fasts 89 * The Passion of the Lord 90 * The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary 92 * The Annunciation of the Lord 95 * Saint Gregory, Saint Benedict, and Saint Patrick 96 8. The Time of Reconciliation 100 * The Ascension of the Lord 103 * The Holy Spirit 106 * The Finding of the Holy Cross 108 * The Greater and Lesser Litanies 111 * Saint Ambrose 113 * Saint George 115 * Saint Mark, Evangelist 117 * Saint Peter Martyr 118 9. The Time of Pilgrimage 121 * The Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary 122 * The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 126 * The Exaltation of the Holy Cross 128 * The Finding of Saint Stephen, the First Martyr, and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist 130 * Multiple Saints 132 * Saint Maurice and His Companions 133 * Saints Dionysius, Rusticus, and Eleutherius 135 * The Eleven Thousand Virgins 137 * The Four Crowned Martyrs 138 * Saint John the Baptist 139 * Saint Peter, Apostle 141 * Saint Paul, Apostle 142 * Saint Christopher 143 * Saint Dominic 144 * Saint Bernard 145 * Saint Augustine 148 * Saint Michael, Archangel 152 * Saint Jerome 154 * Saint Francis 156 * Saint Martin, Bishop 157 * Saint Elizabeth of Hungary 161 * Saint Catherine 164 * All Saints and the Commemoration of All Souls 165 * Saint Pelagius, Pope: The History of the Lombards 170 * The Dedication of a Church 176 Conclusion 181 Afterword 183 Notes 185 Bibliography 197 *1. Jacobus de Voragine and the Golden Legend 197 *2. Genoa in the Time of Jacobus de Voragine 199 *3. The "Beautiful" Thirteenth Century 200 *4. The Latin Legendaries 200 *5. The Dominicans in the Thirteenth Century 201 *6. Liturgy and Christian Time in the Middle Ages 201 *7. Christian Time in the Middle Ages 202 *8. Saints and Sanctity under Christianity 202 *9. Various Studies on Time 203 *10. Time and History 205 Index 207
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Princeton University Press The Myth of Nations
Book SynopsisOffers an analysis, which contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries - the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear.Trade Review"Geary's lucid and expert examination of the circumstances in which ... stories and identities were created ... offers a satisfying and ... often a subtle approach to some of the most elusive aspects of a complicated period. Its methodology is brilliantly and persuasively vindicated."--R.I. Moore, Times Literary Supplement "In this compelling historical treatise, Geary debunks the myth that modern European national and ethnic groups can be traced to distinct ancient or early medieval peoples... [H]is arguments are important in light of the nationalistic excesses of the 20th century, and his conclusions are sure to provoke controversy among scholars."--Publishers Weekly "An admirable survey of a complicated and important subject."--Kelly McFall, History: Review of Books "Patrick Geary's The Myth of Nations is more timely than he could have anticipated... Since 1989, this period--between the third and eighth centuries--has been persistently misrepresented by Europe's nationalist and racist populations, who claim to find in the Middle Ages some kind of justification for their policies... Demythologizing the early Middle Ages entails first understanding how the myths were created in the 19th century. Geary is blunt ... it is impossible to map linguistic or ethnic identities onto national territories... Ethnicity is 'impervious to mere rational disproof.' This is why Geary's message is so compelling, and why it matters to keep faith with reason: getting Europe's medieval past straight gives a bearing on its future."--J.L. Nelson, London Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: The Crisis of European Identity 1 Chapter One: A Poisoned Landscape: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century 15 Chapter Two: Imagining Peoples in Antiquity 41 Chapter Three: Barbarians and Other Romans 63 Chapter Four: New Barbarians and New Romans 93 Chapter Five: The Last Barbarians? 120 Chapter Six: Toward New European Peoples 151 Notes 175 Suggestion for Further Reading 185 Index 189
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Churchills Trial
Book Synopsis'A masterpiece…The one book on Winston Churchill that every undergraduate, every graduate student, every professional historian, and every member of the literate general public should read.' ---Lewis E. Lehrman, cofounder of the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College and distinguished director of the Abraham Lincoln Association
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Harvard University Press Justifying Genocide
Book SynopsisAs Stefan Ihrig shows in this first comprehensive study, many Germans sympathized with the Ottomans’ longstanding repression of the Armenians and with the Turks’ program of extermination during World War I. In the Nazis’ version of history, the Armenian Genocide was justifiable because it had made possible the astonishing rise of the New Turkey.Trade ReviewFascinating and highly readable… Ihrig brilliantly lays bare the ‘confluence’ between German anti-Semitic and anti-Armenian stereotypes. -- Lawrence Douglas * Irish Times *In this compelling narrative, Ihrig finds that the so-called Armenian Horrors were vigorously debated in the [German] government and in periodicals of the time… Ihrig’s deep, scrupulous research reveals the official pattern set by the Germans ‘vis-à-vis the Armenians’ as an ‘enabler’ for the Ottomans, later giving way to open justification, denial, and whitewashing of the horrors visited on the Armenian people… A groundbreaking academic study that shows how Germany derived from the Armenian genocide ‘a plethora of recipes’ to address its own ethnic problems. * Kirkus Reviews *Yet another excellent book by Stefan Ihrig about the uncanny German–Turkish connection. The story of the Armenian Genocide and its reception in post–World War I Germany thus becomes a German, not a Turkish or Armenian, story about racism and the road taken by Germany toward the Holocaust. A surprising answer to the question: How was the Holocaust possible in twentieth-century Germany of all places? -- Moshe Zimmermann, The Hebrew University of JerusalemThis book is a major contribution to the study of German attitudes toward the Armenian Genocide. It puts German policies and reactions to Ottoman Turkey in the general perspective of Germany’s policies before, during, and after World War I. It deals with the parallels between German attitudes to Armenians and to Jews, and permits us to understand the complexities and problems of different minority groups within German society relative to Turkey. -- Yehuda Bauer, Yad VashemAfter Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination, Stefan Ihrig again presents an intelligent book of uncommon originality. By exposing how ‘justificationalism’ led to an ethic-free thinking in concepts of ‘final solutions,’ he shows how this became a strong mental link between the Armenian Genocide and the Shoah. Written in the elegant style of a historical drama in several acts, this is a great achievement. -- Rolf Hosfeld, Lepsiushaus PotsdamIt is striking to see the ideological similarities between Germany in the late 1920s and Kemalist Turkey, or Mussolinian Italy. Written in a lively style, well-balanced and well-documented, this book will advance the debate on the relationship between mass violences that marked the twentieth century. -- Raymond Kévorkian, University of Paris VIII
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MB - Cornell University Press Certain Sainthood Canonization and the Origins
Book SynopsisCertain Sainthood draws on the insights of a new generation of scholarship that integrates both lived religion and intellectual history into the study of theology and canon law.Trade ReviewCertain Sainthood focuses on the expansion of papal authority in the Middle Ages during the Gregorian reform. Well-written and persuasively argued, Donald S. Prudlo asserts that papal infallibility developed organically during this period in tandem with papal canonizations. * READING RELIGION *Prudlo argues that from the modern perspective, Catholics concentrate on canonical or theological history, with little appreciation for the social or cultural meaning of saints and canonization, especially during the medieval period.... But [he] integrates it with cultural history and lived religion during the period when papal centralization led to claims of infallibility in canonization. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. "By the authority of Blessed Peter" Making Saint-Making2. "They trust not in the suffrages of the saints": Saintly Skirmishes3. "That the Perversity of Heretics Might Be Confounded": From Practice to Theory4. "Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark...": The Assault on Mendicant Holiness(1234–60)5. "That God Might Not Permit Us to Err": The Articulation of Infallibility in Canonization6. Sancti per fi dem vicerunt regna: "The Saints, by Faith, Conquered ;Kingdoms"Conclusion
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Rlpg/Galleys The to Z of Bulgaria
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Stanford University Press Inventing Eastern Europe Map of Civilization on
Book SynopsisIn this provocative, wide-ranging history of how the continent of Europe came to be conceived as divided into "Western Europe" and "Eastern Europe," the author shows that it was not a natural distinction, or even an innocent one, but instead was a work of cultural creation, of intellectual artifice, of ideological self-interest and self-promotion.Trade Review"Thought-provoking and well written, . . . Wolff's book provides a valuable treatment of the ways in which 'Enlightened' thinkers conceive of the lands east of the Elbe. . . . A very welcome contribution to both the history of the Enlightenment and the Western understanding of Eastern Europe." —The Russian Review"The distinction between East and West Europe is a seemingly immemorial cliché that desperately needs dismantling, and Wolff does it with erudition and a lively dramatic sense."—Voice Literary Supplement
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Stanford University Press Can One Live after Auschwitz
Book SynopsisWhat took place in Auschwitz revokes what Adorno termed the "Western legacy of positivity", the innermost substance of traditional philosophy. This text anatomizes the range of Adorno's concerns, including sections such as "Art, Memory of Suffering", and "Damaged Life".Trade Review"Can One Live after Auschwitz? provides a very useful cross-section of Adorno's work on the task of thought after the Holocaust."—The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd German Uniforms Insignia Equipment 19181923
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The History Press Ltd Fromelles 1916
Book SynopsisAt Fromelles in July 1916 two divisions one British and one Australian within a few weeks of arriving in France went into action for the first time. Their task was to prevent the Germans from moving troops to the Somme where a major British offensive was in progress, but the attack on 19/20 July was a disaster with nearly 7,000 casualties in a few hours. This account explores this battle which for many epitomises the futility of the Great War. In those few hours many heroic deeds were done but the battle caused a souring of Anglo-Australian relationships and truly was a baptism of fire for these British and Australian troops. This is their history. In a new section, Paul Cobb explores the recent discovery in 2008/09 of a mass war grave on the battlefield and includes details of the findings of the archaeological dig, the recovery of 250 bodies and the creation of a new military cemetery.
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Harvard University Press The Law of Blood
Book SynopsisThe scale and depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Johann Chapoutot says we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves, and in particular how steeped they were in the idea that history gave them no choice: it was either kill or die.Trade ReviewThe Law of Blood does invigorating work in attempting to explain how such a wildly repulsive ideology could take hold in the hearts and minds of shopkeepers, artisans, soldiers, and housewives—how a solid percentage of a modern nation could have aligned itself with such obvious, ham-handed, manipulative cruelty. The book has many strengths, but its greatest is a kind of stern empathy, a cold understanding of the complexities of the exchange that was taking place in Germany in the 1930s…Those conditions—crowds of glassy-eyed young men and women chanting ‘blood and soil’ in organized marches, civilized, compassionate people averting the gaze while government agencies carry out brutalities in their name, statesmen remaining mute while their government leaders pitch them into new antagonisms around the world—have seldom had an examination as detailed and ambitious as they get in these pages. The Belknap Press is to be praised for bringing the book to an English-speaking audience. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Review *The Law of Blood is a useful addition to the literature on Nazi ideology…Readers will find much here to further their understanding of what Nazis thought and why they behaved the way they did. -- Dan Stone * Times Higher Education *The author’s consistent refrain is a warning that scholars must take seriously what the Nazis said and wrote…Chapoutot adds to our understanding of Nazi ideas and their results by excavating the ‘moral universe’ from which myriad atrocities emerged. -- Chad S. A. Gibbs * Religious Studies Review *Chapoutot [is] one of the most brilliant historians of his generation… The Law of Blood…is not only absorbing and informative but important—an event. -- Pierre Assouline * La République des Livres *A vertiginous reflection on the dialectic of culture and barbarism. -- Grégoire Kauffmann * L’Express *In this ambitious study, Johann Chapoutot contributes an extremely innovative, in-depth, and comprehensive picture of the mental world created by Nazism. He goes beyond the abstract notion of Weltanschauung and masterfully shows what Nazi thinkers affirmed about the origins of the world, about all life as a constant battle, and about their goal to reign over the world in an achievable eschatological time as a pure race. This mode of thinking, which pervaded all spheres of life, allowed for killing in general and the killing of the Jews—the ultimate Weltpest—in particular. The war against the Jews was a culmination of the essential features of National Socialism. This book is pathbreaking, and a must for anyone interested in National Socialism, the Shoah, or the collective behavior of genocidal societies in general. -- Dan Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research and Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History, Bar Ilan UniversityChapoutot, one of the most gifted European historians of his generation, has enriched the French historiography of the Second World War, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust. He has personally altered the European discussions of Nazi ecology, Nazi law, and the Nazi view of the past. At a time when Nazi self-understanding should be of interest to us all, this book is very welcome indeed. -- Timothy Snyder, Yale UniversityChapoutot offer[s] many illuminating discussions of the ways in which Nazi intellectuals reinterpreted Germany’s history…Scholars of the Holocaust and modern European intellectual history will find much of value in this rich analysis of a diverse and perverse Nazi intellectualism. -- Alice Weinreb * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *Chapoutot’s analysis casts important new light on the ideological texts the Nazis produced and their relation to the fearful crimes they committed…A compelling, deeply researched, and morally astute contribution to our understanding of Nazism. -- Casper Tybjerg * European Legacy *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Medieval Sensibilities: A History of Emotions in
Book SynopsisWhat do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages? Though a long-neglected subject, a multitude of sources – spiritual and secular literature, iconography, chronicles, as well as theological and medical works – provide clues to the central role emotions played in medieval society. In this work, historians Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy delve into a rich variety of texts and images to reveal the many and nuanced experiences of emotion during the Middle Ages – from the demonstrative shame of a saint to a nobleman's fear of embarrassment, from the enthusiasm of a crusading band to the fear of a town threatened by the approach of war or plague. Boquet and Nagy show how these outbursts of joy and pain, while universal expressions, must be understood within the specific context of medieval society. During the Middle Ages, a Christian model of affectivity was formed in the ‘laboratory’ of the monasteries, one which gradually seeped into wider society, interacting with the sensibilities of courtly culture and other forms of expression. Bouqet and Nagy bring a thousand years of history to life, demonstrating how the study of emotions in medieval society can also allow us to understand better our own social outlooks and customs.Trade Review‘This pathbreaking book, from two pioneer researchers on the history of emotions, tracks the unfolding of a gradual “emotional revolution,” beginning in late antiquity, that slowly transformed medieval society from top to bottom. An ancient ideal of calm self-control was supplanted by a vision of God and human beings bound together by emotional, even passionate, relationships. Every dimension of social life is brought into the story, from religion to politics, to gender, to popular culture, building a new understanding of the medieval world that sweeps aside the all-too-resilient clichés of Johan Huizinga and Norbert Elias.’ William M. Reddy, Duke UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Chapter 1: The Christianization of Emotion (third to fifth centuries) The theology of emotion An emotional God God’s wrath: a proof of his existence God is love Passion incarnate The anthropology of emotion The Christian passions Augustine: father of medieval affectivity Sin and punishment A new order of humanity Chapter 2: The City of Desire: The Monastic Laboratory The desert: from the care of the body to the care of the soul The bad thoughts of Evagrius of Pontus Cassian and the foundations of community: from charity to virtuous friendship Affective conversion in Western monasticism Monastic norms for converting the emotions Gregory the Great and sacrificial emotion Chapter 3: Emotions for a Christian Society: The Frankish World (fifth to tenth centuries) The early Middle Ages: a fragmented age? Emotional bonds Amicitia / inimicitia And what of women in all of this? The rise of heavenly emotions New forms of lay devotion Moral teaching The Carolingian vision of society: unity in love Chapter 4: The Zenith of Monastic Affection The origins of affective renewal A compassionate eremitism The privilege of love: fraternal affection amongst an ascetic elite The affective reform of monasticism and the Church. Friendship as the practice of conversion: Anselm of Canterbury The expansion of love’s domain Passionate charity as spiritual nature Ordering the emotions Sensitive pieties The world as horizon: spiritual friendship and fraternal charity in the twelfth century Chapter 5: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Aristocratic Emotions in Feudal Society (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) The emotional order of feudal society A society of spectacle Revolutions of love The loving couple and its twin The naturalization of love The impossible innamoramento of same-sex lovers Literary emotions and aristocratic values Epic emotions Looking upon another, another looking upon oneself: jealousy and shame Chapter 6: The Emotive Nature of Man (eleventh to thirteenth centuries) A prelude: the controversy over the ‘first movements of the soul’ Accidents of the soul and of the heart: the medical science of emotion The emotional mechanism Emotions and healthy living Remedies for melancholy Monastic anthropology in the twelfth century: the challenges of a spiritual psychology Affect as a power of the soul For better or for worse: the affective union of body and soul Towards a university science of the passions of the soul: the thirteenth century Emotions and individuals between psychology and morality: the early thirteenth century John of La Rochelle: the turning point of scholastic anthropology Thomas Aquinas: a psychological science of the passions Chapter 7: The Politics of Princely Emotion (twelfth to fifteenth centuries) Sovereign emotion From the political body to the princely body, and back again. The prince in the mirror of his emotions The emotional portrait of St. Louis Governing through emotion Ira regis Anger as verdict: the murder of Thomas Beckett. Casting shame and being ashamed Negotiating emotions Sovereignty and the transformation of political emotion: the example of friendship Emotion as a political event ‘To cry is to govern’ Chapter 8: The Mystical Conquest of Emotion (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) The cultural roots of ‘affective mysticism’ The Gregorian renewal of theology and the anthropology of religious practices Religious fervour: a collective emotion Francis of Assisi and the revolution of embodied emotion The experience of pious women Vision, imagination and embodiment: paths towards union with the suffering of Christ The sacramental ‘emotive’: the emotional navigation of mystics The emotional incarnation of the sacred: gender and society Epilogue: the devotio moderna and the softening of affective piety Chapter 9: Common Emotion (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) The public sharing of performative emotions Emotion and violence: popular movements Settling conflicts through the sharing of emotion Emotions and social identities When emotions expressed communities Excluding through emotion: fomenting hatred The ‘pastoral of emotions’ The scholastic theory of emotional education Emotional rhetoric: the manufacture of laughter and shame The scripting of emotional persuasion Conclusion Notes Bibliography Figure credits Index
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Yale University Press Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and
Book SynopsisThe extravagant gardens of the 16th- and 17th-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest gardens of the rural county gentry have rarely been examined. Jill Francis presents new, never-before published material as well as fresh interpretations of previously examined sources to reveal gardening as a practical activity in which a broad spectrum of society was engaged from the laborers who dug, manured, and weeded, to the gentleman owners who sought to create gardens that both exemplified their personal tastes and displayed their wealth and status. Enhanced by beautiful and compelling illustrations, this book contributes to a broader understanding of early modern society and its culture by situating the activity of gardening within the wider social and cultural concerns of the age, reflecting the anxieties, hopes, and aspirations of people at the time. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“sumptuously produced” – John Carey, The Sunday Times“Handsomely designed, generously illustrated and packed full of information and detail.” – Lisa Hopkins, Times Higher Education Supplement“Francis has gathered together an impressive body of information, some of it previously unexplored” —Margaret Willes, Times Literary Supplement“This is a serious book on early- modern society, but we are drawn in by the personal nature of the evidence: the gardeners’ loves, extravagances, and preoccupations.”— Jamie Cable, Church Times“Francis introduces some very interesting new material”—Paula Henderson, Garden History “The book offers much detailed analysis and also demonstrates the diversity of gardens during this period.”— John Edmondson, Welsh Historic Gardens Trust BulletinLong listed for the Historians of British Art Book PrizeListed on Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles List for 2019
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Italy in the Modern World
Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive history of Italy from around 1800 to the present, Italy in the Modern World traces the social and cultural transformations that defined the lives of Italians during the 19th and 20th century. The book focuses on how social relations (class, gender and race), science and the arts shaped the political processes of unification, state building, fascism and the postwar world. Split up into four parts covering the making of Italy, the liberal state, war and fascism, and the republic, the text draws on secondary literature and primary sources in order to synthesize current historiographical debates and provide primary documents for classroom use. There are individual chapters on key topics, such as unification, Italians in the world, Italy in the world, science and the arts, fascism, the World Wars, the Cold War, and Italy in the 21st century, as well as a wealth of useful features for students, including:* Comprehensive bibliographic essaysTrade ReviewLinda Reeder’s accessible yet scholarly book offers a needed alternative to conventional surveys of modern Italy. It successfully integrates the history of gender relations and mobilities into the national narrative, highlighting in particular the importance of migrations in the making of the modern nation. This book should be required reading for all classes on modern Italy, especially those focused on its global and borderless dimensions. * Silvana Patriarca, Professor of History, Fordham University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Images List of Maps Timeline Introduction Part I - Italians and the Making of Italy, 1800-1870 Overview 1. ‘Italy’ in 1800 2. Restoration and Italian Nationalism, 1815-1848 3. Wars of Unification, 1848-1870 4. Setting up House, 1870-1880 Part II - Italians and the Liberal State, 1880-1914 Overview 5. Work, Family and the State 6. Italians in the World 7. Italy in the World: Domestic Ambitions and Imperial Failures 8. Science and the Arts Part III - War, Fascism and Occupation Overview 9. The Great War 10. Fascism 11. War, Occupation and Resistance, 1940-45 12. Reconstruction Part IV - The Republic: New Politics and New Voices Overview 13. Society and Politics in the Cold War, 1945-1965 14. 1968: Politics in a New Key 15. A New Republic? 1989-2001 16. Italy in the 21st Century Index
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John Murray Press Understand Irish History Teach Yourself
Book SynopsisUnderstand Irish History is a comprehensive guide to a fascinating history. You will explore Irish reformation and restoration, culture, religion and society as well as more recent conflicts and their impact. Taking you from ancient Ireland to the present day, it will give you an understanding of the background to events that have dominated the headlines in recent years. NOT GOT MUCH TIME?One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.AUTHOR INSIGHTSLots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author''s many years of experience.EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGEExtra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding.THINGS TO REMEMBERQuick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.Table of Contents : Chapter 1 Ireland before 1500: a land of saints and scholars : Chapter 2 Reformation and rebellion : Chapter 3 From restoration to revolution : Chapter 4 Nationalism and Unionism : Chapter 5 Culture, society and politics : Chapter 6 Making the break : Chapter 7 The freedom to achieve freedom? : Chapter 8 A Protestant parliament and a Protestant state : Chapter 9 Breaking the links: the Irish Free State, 1922-39 : Chapter 10 Ireland and the Second World War : Chapter 11 Ireland in the post-war years : Chapter 12 Transforming the face of Ulster? The 1960s : Chapter 13 Countdown to chaos: ‘the Troubles’ begin : Chapter 14 The search for a solution: 1974-85 : Chapter 15 The beginning of the end: 1985-97 : Chapter 16 The Good Friday Agreement and its aftermath : Chapter 17 The Republic of Ireland since the 1960s : Abbreviations : Glossary : Taking it further : Index
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