European history

This book explores the political construction of imperial frontiers during the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean.

Examines four texts of the Imperial period in order to elucidate how each author formulates very different conceptions of Homer.

The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European regions.

George Bronson Rea, Propagandist brings to life the extraordinary story of a journalist, publisher, engineer, spy, lobbyist, blackmailer and fortune hunter, who represents twentieth century journalism gone awry.

The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century.

First published in 1981, this book brings together different types of work by numerous fragmented groups in the field of Marxist history and puts them in dialogue with each other.

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "e;engineering pope"e; Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds.

This is a study of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic of all seventeenth-century figures.

The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative phase in modern Irish history.

The present collection of studies by Andrzej Poppe in many ways represents a continuation of the research brought together a quarter century ago in the author's previous Variorum volume.

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Writings by early-modern English artisans are rare and thus precious.

Will der Protestantismus in einer zunehmend säkularen Gesellschaft anschlussfähig bleiben, so tut er gut daran, sich auf seine liberalen Traditionen zu besinnen und die darin enthaltenen theologischen Einsichten, wissenschaftlichen Fragestellungen und methodischen Ansätze für unsere Zeit fruchtbar zu machen.

Shirvan, today mainly part of Azerbaijan, existed as an autonomous khanate, under Iranian influence, until 1820, when under pressure from Russia, the khan fled to Iran, and Shirvan was immediately annexed along with two neighbouring khanates.

Health, Sickness, Medicine and the Friars in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries explores the attitudes and responses of the mendicant orders to illness, their contribution to medical history, the influence of health and sickness as a factor in the orders' decision making, the extent of their participation in treatments, their relationship with physicians or their own involvement in medical practice, and the problems which occurred as a result of these matters.

Conrad Rudolph studies Hugh of Saint Victor''s forty-two-page written work, The Mystic Ark, which describes the medieval painting of the same name.

Falling between the "e;War of Movement"e; in 1914 and the major attrition battles of 1916, 1915 was a critical year in the First World War.

A military study of the 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan-the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems.

The Paris Review has published a dozen poems from this leading Danish poet's surreal, harrowing prose poetry collection.

Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik provides the first extensive exploration of the reception of Ka-Tzetnik's work and the role that his books have played in the larger discussion of the Holocaust and its memorialization around the world.

A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history.

'Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within' GORE VIDALAs private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history.

A wide-ranging history of the geography and communities of Kent from the earliest times to the present day.

A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the Roman religion.

A detailed study of pollution and impurity in Roman religion, offering new theories on a previously neglected, yet vital, subject.

This study explores the reinvention of the calendar during the French Revolution and its long-lasting cultural effects.

Leading military historians illuminate the major developments in European warfare during a period of momentous technological, political and military change.

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts.

Between 1939 and 1945, over two hundred German and forty-five Allied servicemen were interned in neutral Ireland.

This book traces the birth and evolution of the creche in France, England, Germany, Russia and Italy from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, in an attempt to understand from a transnational viewpoint the history of an institution for very young children that was very different from what we know today.

First published in 1942, this dictionary was designed to help civilians and members of H.

A volume dealing with the regional and local history of South East England, this covers the landcape and society of the modern counties of Surrey, Kent, East and West Sussex and Greater London, south of the Thames from late Anglo-Saxon times to the present.

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When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933 they promised to create a new, harmonious society under the leadership of the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler.

Examines the way economic historians have approached two sets of problems.

A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror.

Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation.

This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938.

First published in 1995.

English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century is a new and original study of how politics worked in late medieval England, throwing new light on a much-discussed period in English history.

A major new interpretation of the Holocaust, contextualizing the destruction of the Jews within Nazi violence against other groups.