This book examines religious activism-Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism-in China, a powerful atheist state that provides one of the hardest challenges to existing methods of transnational activism.
An ambitious history of how medieval writers came to terms with paganismFrom the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "e;Problem of Paganism,"e; which this book identifies and examines for the first time.
Vienna's 'respectable' antisemites offers a radical challenge to conventional accounts of one of the darkest periods in the city's history: the rise of organised, politically directed antisemitism between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.
In einer Epoche der Machtspiele und der opulenten Prachtentfaltung der Kirche erhebt sich eine Figur, die durch ihre schlichte Existenz den pompösen Vatikan erschüttert: Coelestin V.
This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.
The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages.
This study of tangible and intangible cultural heritage explains the significance of nobles' conservationist traditions for public engagement with the history of France.
Herausgegeben von Lothar Gall, in Verbindung mit Peter Blickle, Elisabeth Fehrenbach, Johannes Fried, Klaus Hildebrand, Karl Heinrich Kaufhold, Horst Möller, Otto Gerhard Oexle, Klaus Tenfelde.
From Altar-Throne to Table: The Campaign for Frequent Holy Communion in the Catholic Church investigates what the celebrated scholar of liturgy Robert A.
This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation.
Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame.
Within these pages, celebrated Native American writer Gabriel Horn weaves a hauntingly beautiful tapestry of traditional stories, songs, and prayers that highlight the sacred Native way of life.
This collection of essays explores consolation and mourning in the varied, sometimes provocative, readings of Boethius and of Stoic consolation by French, English, Italian and German authors, including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machaut, Chaucer, Wyatt and Queen Elizabeth I.
Tracing the development of the King Arthur story in the late Middle Ages, this book explores Arthur's depiction as a wilderness figure, the descendant of the northern Romano-British hunter/warrior god.
Scientific governance in Britain, 1914-79 examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain.
1338: England has declared war on France, and Jeanette of Kent, cousin to King Edward III, says goodbye to her family and travels overseas with the royal court for the first time.
L'Arxiu Municipal de Vila-real conserva un total de seixanta-quatre Manuals de Consells que abasten des de l'any 1377 fins al 1521, cinc dels quals –els corresponents al segle XIV– són els transcrits en aquest volum (1377-1378; 1382-1383; 1383-1384; 1388-1389 i 1393-1394).
In this heart-wrenching novel by Sigrid Undset, The Cross brings Kristin's story to a close as the final years of her life are consumed by the Black Death, in the final installment in the well-known Norwegian trilogy, Kristin Lavransdatter.
This collection brings together academics and practitioners to consider the increasingly central role that memory and recalling the past plays in determining contemporary politics and the future direction of Northern Irish society.
