Search results for "tag:"Author George Huppert""
MH - Indiana University Press Comrade Huppert A Poet in Stalins World
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOf interest to scholars of Austrian literature and history. . . * Kirkus Reviews *Deftly tracing Hugo Huppert's improbable path from Jewish Galicia to Soviet Moscow to postwar Vienna, George Huppert . . . anchors this account in his own experience. . . * Choice *The addition of illuminating historical context to Hugo's narrative is George's most significant contribution. * On the Seawall *
£18.04
Indiana University Press After the Black Death Second Edition A Social
Book SynopsisA work of genuine social history, this book leads the reader, as concretely as possible, into the real villages and cities of European society. It begins with a description of family and community structure, social conflict, and religious beliefs.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition: "To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." - History "Huppert's book is a little masterpiece every teacher should welcome." - Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface1. The Eternal Village2. The Freedom of the City3. The Urban Community4. The Urban Elite5. The Privileged Estates6. The Evolution of Rural Society7. Rebellion8. On the Margins of the Community9. Private Lives10. Worldly Minds11. War and Plunder12. ConclusionNotesBibliographical EssayIndex
£16.14
Indiana University Press The Style of Paris
Book SynopsisThe voices of liberty, equality, religious tolerance, reason, and enlightenment heard in renaissance Paris.Trade Review"Huppert makes a vigorous and effective case in The Style of Paris for the existence around the 1550s of a dynamic group of mainly young intellectuals whose spirit of scepticism and rational inquiry anticipated the Enlightenment."--David Parker, Times Literary Supplement, September 17, 1999Table of Contents1. Portrait of a Discrete Philosophe2. In Monsieur Brinon's Garden3. A School for Scandal4. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité5. Historical Research in the Service of Philosophy6. Optimi Auctores7. Dangerous Classes8. Ex Tenebras Lux9. The Republic of LettersNotesBibliographyIndex
£11.39
