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Canelo Waterloo: Wellington's Victory and Napoleon's
Book SynopsisTHE GREATEST OF BATTLESThe defining military engagement of the nineteenth century. The epic battle that forever ended one man’s dreams of a European empire unified under his rule.THE GREATEST OF RIVALSThis epoch-defining conflict would ultimately be remembered for the showdown between two of history’s most legendary commanders: the Duke of Wellington, and Napoleon Bonaparte.THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNTDivided into three parts, Christopher Hibbert masterfully depicts first Napoleon and his rise to power, then a portrait of Wellington and the allied armies, and lastly the steps leading up to and the battle itself, the final clash on the fields of Waterloo.A gripping, succinct and panoramic survey of this legendary battle, the history surrounding the conflict, and the personalities that defined both the battle itself, and a generation.
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Headline Publishing Group Treasures of World History The Story Of
Book SynopsisAn examination of world history, told through 50 key documents. Table of ContentsCode of Hammurabi • Tutankhamun wishing cup • I Ching • Mahabharata • Homer's Odyssey • Greek ostraka • Rosetta Stone • Dead Sea Scrolls • Res Gestae • Koran • Book of Kells • Magna Carta • Da Vinci notebooks • Treaty of Tordesillas • Codex Mendoza • Copernicus, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres • Shakespeare First Folio • Treaty of Westphalia • Declaration of Independence • Tennis Court Oath • Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women • Beethoven's Fifth Symphony • Key, 'O Say Can You See' • Napoleon 1 March 1815 proclamation • Brunel letter on propulsion • Communist Manifesto • Soccer Rules • Darwin, On the Origin of Species • Gettysburg Address • British North America Act • Congress of Berlin • New Zealand Suffrage Petition • Wright brothers telegram • Tubb Gallipoli diary • Einstein, General Relativity paper • Wilson, Fourteen Points • Coco Chanel sketch • Anne Frank diary • Einstein, Manhattan Project latter • D-Day map • Churchill-Stalin 'percentages' paper • UN Charter • 'A Structure for DNA' • Treaty of Rome • Beatles itinerary • Mandela courtroom speech • Tickets to Woodstock 1969 • Apollo 11 report • Tim Berners-Lee Web memo • Map of the universe.
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Quercus Publishing Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their
Book Synopsis'This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written' Gerard DeGroot, The Times'Immersive, conversational and intensely visual' Helen Castor------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded.Hidden Hands tells the stories of the artisans, artists, scribes and readers, patrons and collectors who made and kept the beautiful, fragile objects that have survived the ravages of fire, water and deliberate destruction to form a picture of both English culture and the wider European culture of which it is part.Without manuscripts, she shows, many historical figures would be lost to us, as well as those of lower social status, women and people of colour, their stories erased, and the remnants of their labours destroyed.From the Cuthbert Bible, to works including those by the Beowulf poet, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Sir Thomas Malory, Chaucer, the Paston Letters and Shakespeare, Mary Wellesley describes the production and preservation of these priceless objects.With an insistent emphasis on the early role of women as authors and artists and illustrated with over fifty colour plates, Hidden Hands is an important contribution to our understanding of literature and history.Trade ReviewThis is an engaging and beautiful book - the engagement arising from the author's deep commitment to understanding the lives of medieval women and men, and the beauty from her ability to make us see and hear them talking about and living their experiences. It isn't just an introduction to literary manuscripts but also a series of glimpses of the extraordinary diversity of medieval lives. Mary Wellesley has taken jewels from our bibliographic treasures and placed them, carefully and with love, in the palm of the reader's hand -- Ian MortimerMary Wellesley is a born storyteller and Hidden Hands is as good as historical writing gets. Wellesley draws on her deep scholarly knowledge of medieval manuscripts to weave a captivating tale, told through generations of 'tremulous hands' and forgotten artistic geniuses, whose works inform so much of what we know today about the Middle Ages. This is a sensational debut by a wonderfully gifted historian. -- Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantagenets and The Templars.Their creators being largely anonymous, Medieval manuscripts tell their own stories in this Decameron of devotion and obsession, encryption and skullduggery, extravagance, destruction, and survival. The result is an unexpectedly swift page-turner on the era when pages were turned slowly. -- Eliot Weinberger, author of Angels & SaintsHidden Hands shines with 'bibliophilic feeling.' With care forensic and literary, Wellesley reveals the traces of their history legible in the pores of the page and in the process provides a page-turner of her own. * Amaranth Borsuk, author of The Book *Mary Wellesley has written a most original book which is at once a vivid personal account of scholarly detective work and a model of how history might be taught now that there is easy electronic access to ancient manuscripts. She traces the precarious survival of the the earliest books, expounds with clarity the methods and purposes of authors, scribes, patrons, annotators and illustrators and speculates with sympathy on their motives. Hands (especially female ones) assume personalities, indeed voices which are recognisable even when alien - and often urgently appealing. -- Nicholas PennyAuthors may write their books, but they don''t make them. Here is the chance to meet the women and men who actually made the cathedrals and palaces of medieval English literature, from the St Cuthbert Gospel to the Luttrell Psalter, from Beowulf to Chaucer. Mary Wellesley tells us about the authors, but more important, she introduces us to the artists, the ink-makers, vellum preparers and pigment grinders - and all the others who contributed their different gifts to these great communal achievements. To read this book is to meet the makers of the English literary middle ages. -- Neil MacGregorHidden Hands is a delight - immersive, conversational, and intensely visual, full of gorgeous illustrations and shimmering description. Mary Wellesley explores the lives of medieval manuscripts, and the men and - importantly - women who made them, with deep learning and unmistakable love. * Helen Castor *It is very seldom you read a book which offers gifts on every page, every paragraph, every sentence. I learned more, and was more delighted, reading Hidden Hands that the last dozen books I read. Her book brings you into the heart's core of literature and I loved it. -- Andrew O'HaganIn an age moving ever more quickly away from the physical book, Hidden Hands conjures up in vivid detail the pleasures of reading and making manuscripts. Mary Wellesley's joy in telling the stories of books long lost and found, and voices forgotten and recovered, is palpable on every page. I finished this book with a burning desire to get back to the archives. -- Ramie Targoff, author of Renaissance WomanMary Wellesley brings early Britain alive with this exciting account of the hidden world of old manuscripts. Far from an arid examination of dusty parchments this is an exhilarating journey of discovery, full of new insights not least, as the title implies , the important but unrecognised role women played in political and religious life. A refreshing and original vision of who we once were. -- David DimblebyWith her richly detailed, personal, multi-layered and unexpected stories about manuscripts and their makers - scribes and patrons, illuminators and parchment-makers - Mary Wellesley brings vividly before us anonymous and forgotten figures, several of them women. Writing con amore, she celebrates the sensuous processes involved and chronicles the vicissitudes of the works' survival: this is a warm, enthralling and original contribution to the history of the book. -- Mariner WarnerA fascinating and brilliantly narrated voyage into the little-known treasure-houses of medieval culture. -- Simon JenkinsFascinating, well-researched and (pardon the pun) illuminating. * The Countryman Mag *It is intensely personal. It wears its learning lightly. It chats easily and informally to the reader. It conveys a mass of arcane but fascinating information... Manuscripts establish a personal bond across the centuries between [the author] and the men and women who made them. Few people have described the experience so eloquently. The range is remarkable... wonderful. * The Spectator *To Wellesley, books are objects, tangible things, a million miles away from Kindles, which are insert. Her taste is not for "the sanitised, ordered blandness of the modern edited text." * The Daily Telegraph *'Highlighting instances in which texts about women were radically recentered on men, Wellesley offers a nuanced glimpse of the shifting nature of the written word' * New Yorker *This is a lovely book, beautifully written and brimming with enthusiasm . . . Wonderful. * Sunday Times (History BOTY) *A georgeously written debut work from a historian of great talent * BBC History Magazine Books of the Year *A jaw-dropping account of . . . medieval manuscripts. * The Scotsman *
£11.69
Arc Humanities Press Antonio Latini’s The Modern Steward, or The Art
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Archaeopress Revealing Trimontium: The Correspondence of James
Book SynopsisThe Roman fort of Trimontium, near the village of Newstead in the Scottish Borders, is renowned internationally thanks to the work of James Curle (1862–1944), a solicitor in nearby Melrose. He led the excavations of 1905–1910, with their spectacular discoveries, and produced an exemplary publication. This volume brings together key sets of his correspondence which illuminate his intellectual networks and connections. They reveal a web of local, national and international contacts and travels that equipped him with an impressively broad knowledge of Roman provincial archaeology and turned him into a sought-after advisor for his expertise and knowledge of a range of topics, especially Roman pottery. Yet his interests went beyond the Roman military. His early interests in Swedish archaeology were rekindled after the Trimontium excavations, with a series of papers on aspects of Viking brooches, while a long-running interest in finds of Roman material beyond the frontiers of the empire shows his concern to understand the Iron Age societies of Scotland and Scandinavia. The letters are provided with a critical apparatus to explain their context, while introductory chapters consider Curle’s background, his local links, his connections with the great Romano-British archaeologist Francis Haverfield, and his wider antiquarian networks. The letters cast fresh light on the intellectual networks of the early 20th century, when professional archaeology was still in its infancy and gifted amateurs such as James Curle played a key role in laying the foundations on which scholarship still builds today.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. James Curle and his Letters Chapter 3. An Introduction to Trimontium Chapter 4. James Curle and his Archaeological World Chapter 5. Curle and Haverfield Chapter 6. James Curle: A Man of Melrose Chapter 7. Glimpses of the Dramatis Personae Chapter 8. Letters to Hercules Chapter 9. From Greece and Rome Chapter 10. My Dear Haverfield Chapter 11. From Home and Abroad Chapter 12. Miscellanea Appendix. Letters between the British Museum and A.O. Curle Bibliography Index
£33.25
Berghahn Books Innovation and Implementation: Critical
Book Synopsis Providing a comprehensive set of guidance to assist researchers wishing to carry out, curate and disseminate field research at a historic burial ground, chapters offer up to date methods for surface and subsurface survey and for the recording and archiving of burial monument data. Divided into three parts considering documentary research and recording of mortuary landscapes, reflections on memorial recording projects, and archiving and wider dissemination of data and interpretations. Also included is the archaeological potential of pet cemeteries and other pet memorials. Discussions therefore include how methodologies may or may not be applicable to both human and animal subjects.Trade Review “…the chapters provide a clear description of historic cemetery archaeological practices, giving individuals a better idea of potential archaeological projects and careers and the challenges faced by those in the field.” • Heather Garvin, Des Moines University “This is a timely, well-organized volume that focuses on new and updated approaches toward cemetery studies. The 14 chapters outline different but complimentary methodologies in cemetery studies and their application over a cross section of global locations.” • Nancy E. Tatarek, Ohio UniversityTable of Contents List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements Introduction Harold Mytum and Richard Veit Part I: Exploring Surface, Subsurface and Documentary Evidence Chapter 1. Applying Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) to Record and Interpret Mortuary Monuments Harold Mytum Chapter 2. Reevaluating Empty Sections Within Historic Cemeteries: Discovering Victims of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Mark Nonestied Chapter 3. Is Anyone Out There? Survey and Research Techniques for CRM Projects when Burial Grounds/Cemeteries Border Construction Projects Mickey Dobbin and Bob Dean Chapter 4. Who Lies Where? A Land and Air-based Survey Methodology for Documenting Historic Cemeteries Richard W. Hunter, James S. Lee III, Alexis Alemy and Evan Mydlowski Part II: Field Recording of Monuments and Burial Ground Management Chapter 5. Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Evaluating Earlier Cemetery Monument Records through Modern Recording Anne G. Giesecke and Dan Steffen Chapter 6. An International Mortuary Monument Recording System - From Site Analysis to International Comparative Studies Harold Mytum Chapter 7. “As Old as Pompeii or Herculaneum”: Kolkata, India’s South Park Street Cemetery, An Example of Rapid Recording Richard Veit Chapter 8. Standing for Sacred Spaces: NC Division of Cultural Resources and the African American Burial Ground Network Act Melissa A Timo Chapter 9. Mourning and Remembering Deceased Companion Species: Mortuary Monuments and Graves for Horses in Finland Tiina Äikäs, Janne Ikäheimo, Tuija Kirkinen, Karin Hemmann, and Päivi Laine Chapter 10. Preserving the Rainbow Bridge: Recording Pet Cemeteries Eric Tourigny Part III: Archiving and Dissemination Chapter 11. Discovering England's Burial Spaces (DEBS): Using Digital Tools in Graveyard Recording and Archiving Julian D Richards, Toby Pillatt, Debbie Maxwell, Gareth Beale and Nicole Smith Chapter 12. The Cemetery Surveyor Application: Non-paper data Collection Methods in Luxembourg Burial Grounds Christoph K. Streb, Cyrille Médard de Chardon, and Thomas Kolnberger Chapter 13. Burial Grounds on the Web: Reviewing the Role of Digital Data beyond Genealogy, and how Historical Archaeology can play its part Anna Fairley Nielsson Chapter 14. Burial Ground Recording and Analysis: Where Next? Harold Mytum and Richard Veit Index
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Anthem Press The Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness
Book SynopsisThe Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. More than a million others fled the stricken land between 1845 and 1851. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap. It is based on a large volume of reports on social conditions in the Irish localities, emanating from within those localities, that has never been used systematically by historians. It bears the compelling title of the ‘Death Census’. Most historians are simply unaware of its existence. The outstanding feature of the Death Census is that it was authored by local clergymen who lived among the people they served and were intimately involved with their lives. This book brings the Death Census together in composite form for the first time and provides a detailed examination of its contents. The result is new understanding of the Great Famine as it was experienced on the ground.Trade Review‘This volume provides both a new source for determining the level of tragic local deaths as a result of the Great Famine and a brilliantly new way of evaluating the ameliorative efforts of the United Kingdom government. Famine studies will be significantly changed in light of this radical study’ —Professor Donald H. Akenson.‘Based on 100 eyewitness statements, amounting to almost 50,000 words of testimony, the death census of 1847 demonstrates that there are still sources to be recovered that add depth and nuance to our understanding of the tragedy known as the Great Famine. Stunning research by four accomplished scholars’ —Professor Christine Kinealy, Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, USA.‘This book is a wonderful resource for all those who want to learn more about the most important event in Irish history. The Catholic clergy who prepared the reports were uniquely well placed to document the devastation across the country in Black ’47. The Death Census enables readers to drill down into the local experience of Ireland’s Great Famine using this unique source to understand how the catastrophe affected ordinary people in communities across the country in the late 1840s.’ —Professor Enda Delaney, University of Edinburgh, UK.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Tables, and Maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I, Chapter One The Great Famine; Chapter Two The Death Census of 1847; Chapter Three The Politics of Famine Mortality; Chapter Four Estimates of Famine Mortality in the Death Census; Chapter Five Eyewitness Accounts of Black ’47; Chapter Six Famine, Priests and People; Part II, Chapter Seven The Death Census: Testimony in Context; Bibliography; Index
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De Gruyter Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice
Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of experimental approaches to the study of media histories and their cultures. Doing media archaeological experiments, such as historical re-enactments and hands-on simulations with media historical objects, helps us to explore and better understand the workings of past media technologies and their practices of use. By systematically refl ecting on the methodological underpinnings of experimental media archaeology as a relatively new approach in media historical research and teaching, this book aims to serve as a practical handbook for doing media archaeological experiments. Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice is the twin volume to Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory, authored by Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever.
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De Gruyter Papyri Copticae Magicae: Coptic Magical Texts,
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first in a new series of editions of Coptic-language "magical" manuscripts from Egypt, written on papyrus, ostraca, parchment, and paper, and dating to between the fourth and twelfth centuries CE. Their texts attest to non-institutional rituals intended to bring about changes in the lives of those who used them – heal disease, curse enemies, bring about love or hatred, or see into the future. These manuscripts represent rich sources of information on daily life and lived religion of Egypt in the last centuries of Roman rule and the first centuries after the Arab conquest, giving us glimpses of the hopes and fears of people of this time, their conflicts and problems, and their vision of the human and superhuman worlds. This volume presents 37 new editions and descriptions of manuscripts, focusing on formularies or "handbooks", those texts containing instructions for the performance of rituals. Each of these is accompanied by a history of its acquisition, a material description, and presented with facing text and translations, tracings of accompanying images, and explanatory notes to aid in understanding the text.
£103.55
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Historische Philosophie: Beschreibung Einer
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Dietrich Reimer Carl Ritter Und Seine Erdkunde Von Asien: Die
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Die DDR im Blick der Stasi 1982: Die geheimen
Book Synopsis1982 stagniert die ökonomische Entwicklung, Verschleiß und Mangelwirtschaft führen zu Bränden und Explosionen in Industriebetrieben und in der Bevölkerung macht sich angesichts einer veritablen Versorgungskrise Resignation breit. Doch die Stasi fokussierte sich auf die aufkeimende Friedens- und Umweltbewegung. Vor dem Hintergrund des zweiten Kalten Krieges und der atomaren Hochrüstung der Supermächte beschäftigte sie sich beispielsweise eingehend mit dem „Berliner Appell“, dem Friedensforum in Dresden oder den Blues-Messen in Berlin. Die unter dem Dach der evangelischen Kirche entstehende kleine, aber aktive Friedensbewegung schien ausweislich der geheimen Berichte an die SED-Führung eine größere Bedrohung für den SED-Staat zu sein als der allgemeine wirtschaftliche Niedergang und seine Folgen.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Publicum und Secretum: Die Diarien Gerlach Adolph
Book SynopsisGegenstand der Edition ist das sog. Diarium Legationis, das Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen in seiner Funktion als erster Gesandter des Kurfürstentums Braunschweig-Lüneburg bei der Frankfurter Königswahl in den Jahren 1741 und 1742 verfasste. Das Diarium ist ein in vielerlei Hinsicht bemerkenswertes Dokument. Inmitten des Österreichischen Erbfolgekrieges entstanden, dokumentiert das Diarium die Komplikationen der Sukzession nach dem Tod Kaiser Karls VI. und des zeitweisen Übergangs der Kaiserwürde auf das Haus Wittelsbach im Anschluss an die reichsgeschichtlich dramatischen Auswirkungen der Pragmatischen Sanktion. Auch der seit Jahrzehnten wachsende Einfluss reichsfremder Mächte, insbesondere der Krone Frankreichs, auf die konkreten Geschicke der Reichspolitik finden im Diarium ihren Niederschlag. Auch für die inneren Geschicke Kurhannovers ist das Diarium ein Schlüsseldokument: Für den Aufstieg Münchhausens zum Premierminister in Hannover war die Gesandtschaft nach Frankfurt eine wichtige Etappe. Im Kontext der Reichsversammlungen des Heiligen Römischen Reiches nimmt der Bericht schließlich eine ungewöhnliche Stellung zwischen den nüchternen Versammlungsprotokollen den Gesandtschaftsrelationen ein. Für den regen Wissensaustausch zwischen Gesandtschaft und Hof, für die informellen Formen ministerialer Sozialisierung und klandestiner Diplomatie auf dem Wahltag und für den hohen Stellenwert persönlicher Beziehungen ist das Diarium Münchhausens von kaum zu überschätzender Bedeutung.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Regesta Pontificum Romanorum: Tomus quintus (ab
Book SynopsisIm Rahmen des Projekts „Papsturkunden des frühen und hohen Mittelalters“ der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, welches im Gesamtunternehmen der Pius-Stiftung für Papsturkundenforschung eingebettet ist, entsteht die Neubearbeitung der Regesta Pontificum Romanorum unter der Ägide von Klaus Herbers. Der fünfte Band enthält die Pontifikate von Gregor VII. bis zu Urban II. (von 1073 bis 1099). In kurzen lateinischen Regesten werden systematisch die Papstkontakte in chronologischer Reihenfolge erschlossen. Durch die Aufarbeitung der Forschungsgeschichte seit der letzten Auflage 1885 wurde die Zahl der Einträge auf über 2500 erhöht. Privilegien, Konzilsakten sowie Brief- und Rechtssammlungen wurden ebenso ausgewertet wie die wichtigste Historiographie. Einen zentralen Fortschritt erbrachte die bibliografische Aktualisierung. Die Regesten verweisen auf die heute maßgeblichen Editionen und die Diskussion zu Echtheit und Datierung der Papstschreiben. Konkordanzen und ein Initienregister erleichtern den Zugriff.
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Peter Lang AG The University in the Making of the Welfare
Book SynopsisIn just a couple of decades, Finland evolved from one of Europe’s lowest educated countries to the top performer of the international PISA ranking. Behind this «success story», there was a conscious strategy to use educational policies for creating a more equal society. Tracing the development of Finnish higher education system after WWII, this book depicts the role of educational expansion in the making of the welfare state. It focuses on the 1970s degree reform and the challenges brought by the 1973 Oil Crisis, resulting in the rise of New Public Management. Though meticulously planned, the reform was a struggle between various actors with conflicting strategies and goals; between educational optimism and scarce resources, academic values and instrumentalism, social justice and elitism.Trade Review«Dieses Buch ist eine herausragende Studie. Zum einen zeigt seine Autorin, die finnische Historikerin Marja Jalava, wie gewinnbringend die Geschichte der Hochschulreform geschrieben werden kann, wenn man sie nicht als kleinteilige Universitätshistorie, sondern als Geschichte eines durch gesellschaftliche Aushandlungsprozesse gekennzeichneten und auf vielfältige Weise interagierenden sozialen Feldes konzipiert. Zum anderen macht die gerade einmal 170 Seiten zählende Monographie eine eklatante Forschungslücke innerhalb der europäischen Bildungs- und Zeitgeschichte sichtbar.» (Anne Rohstock, H-Soz-u-Kult 106, 2013/1)Table of ContentsContents: Nordic Countries – Welfare State – Finland – Higher Education – Idea of the University – Social Equality – Human Capital – Economic Growth – Regional Politics – State Planning – Social Transformation – Ministry of Education – Degree Reform – Student Movement – Think Tanks – New Public Management – PISA Surveys.
£33.93
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Der Osterreichische Staatsrat, Protokolle Des
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Kunst ALS Waffe - Der Einsatzstab Reichsleiter
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Das Kloster Schontal Bei Langenbruck: Die Bau-
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£67.45
Leiden University Press East Asia beyond the Archives: Missing Sources
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