There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of the Cold War to the present barriers of Fortre...Lasīt vairāk
Illuminated with illustrations, an exploration of medieval manuscript production that offers insight into both the early history of the book and life in the Middle Ages. This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medi...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines murrain, or mass mortalities of cattle, in ways that bridge the gap between animal studies and the health humanities. Focused on early modern European disease ecologies but informed by contemporary epidemiological and ecological...Lasīt vairāk
In this expansive history Ellen F. Arnold uses saints lives and miracle stories, poetry, charters, chronicles, and historical narratives to examine how rivers were imagined and ascribed meaning c. 3001100 CE. Focusing on storytelling across centuri...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Wayne State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814351536)
Here, Lau provides a new framework for understanding European fairy tales in the milieux in which they were created, bringing distant and ethereal worlds back to earth....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Wayne State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814341346)
Here, Lau provides a new framework for understanding European fairy tales in the milieux in which they were created, bringing distant and ethereal worlds back to earth....Lasīt vairāk
Latin Political Propaganda offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language to celebrate or undermine political power during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715). Waged as much on the printed pa...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Latinity and Classical Reception in the Early Modern Period
This monograph traces the development of Neo-Latin literature on Japan and/or authored by the Japanese from the 14th century to today. It includes an appendix of several never-before published Latin texts composed by Japanese people from the 1610s to...Lasīt vairāk
Historians have long noted the change in Englands social and political life that occurred with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901. The Bloomsbury Group began to coalesce during the early years of Edwardian England and responded to the changes...Lasīt vairāk
In this volume, we examine apocalypticism and millenarianism in the high and late medieval era in Europe as it was interpreted, expressed, and disseminated in popular culture by a variety of lay individuals, groups, and religious sects....Lasīt vairāk
From Lisbon to Rome via the islands of the Gulf of Guinee and the sugar mills of Northern Brazil, this book explores the strategies and practices (e. g. bibliopolitics) that displaced scholars cultivated to navigate the murky waters of Late Renaissan...Lasīt vairāk
Exploring the experiments in individual and national self-consciousness conducted during the Romantic period, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes original and often surprising connections and contras...Lasīt vairāk
The early German Enlightenment is seen as a reform movement that broke free from traditional ties without falling into anti-Christian and extremist positions. But how did the works which were radical and critical of religion during this period come a...Lasīt vairāk
Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in genres, discourse, and lexis in the period 1500-182...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Mar-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472077373)
An expansive study of imperial Germany to decolonize colonial narratives and national imaginaries German Empires and Decolonial Fantasies, 14921942 investigates the ways German-speaking Europes cultural narratives reflect histories o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Mar-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008495121)
Entertaining and vivid This is a gripping account of an intriguing and little-known Cold War moment OBSERVER The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain duri...Lasīt vairāk
