European history

Composed between the sixth and ninth centuries, penitentials were little books of penance that address a wide range of human fallibility.

Constantijn Huygens was a poet, composer and connoisseur of art and the classics.

This is a translation and new edition of Masaniello.

The varied career of Adam Easton (c.

What was the perception of Greece in Europe during the later nineteenth century, when the attraction of romantic philhellenism had waned?

Medieval states are widely assumed to have lacked police forces.

Only twelve years after German women had been granted voting rights, the German medievalist Elisabeth Busse-Wilson, a first-wave feminist activist and scholar, challenged centuries of silence about violence against women by taking on the case of the most famous European saint, the young Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207-1231).

The landscape of the Netherlands has been changing constantly since the end of the last ice age, some 11,700 years ago.

This book presents a detailed study of the Hucpoldings, an elite group in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Italy.

The Rhetorical Arts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Ireland represents the first study of the art of rhetoric in medieval Ireland, a culture often neglected by medieval rhetorical studies.

In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic was the centre of the world trade in exotic drugs and spices.

During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communication.

Not since Edward Wood's Giants and Dwarfs published in 1868 has the subject been the focus of a scholarly study in English.

This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monuments.

The replacement of the Roman Empire in the West with emerging kingdoms like Visigothic Spain and Merovingian Gaul resulted in new societies, but without major population displacement.

The Museum Vrolikianum in Amsterdam was famous amongst scientists and medical men all over Europe in the nineteenth century.

This book considers for the first time the relationship between the river environment and the economic and political structures of northern Italy in the post-Roman period.

On 9 May 1950, France launched a revolutionary plan for supranational cooperation in Western Europe.

Do narratives make nations, and if so, did networks make this happen?

The rebels of the Dutch Revolt, their political thoughts and the media they used to express them, have long been a focus of historical attention.

Guided by the romantic compass of Turner, Byron, and Ruskin, Victorian travellers to the Dolomites sketched in the mountainous backdrop of Venice a cultural 'Petit Tour' of global significance.

Who were the shadow agents of Renaissance war?

Sacred Sisters focuses on five saints: the four female Irish saints who have extant medieval biographies (Darerca, Brigid, Ite, and Samthann), and Patrick, whose writings -- fifth-century Ireland's sole surviving texts -- attest to the centrality of women in Irish Christianity's development.

Tamura Yoshikazu is destined to die on the alien shores of the New Guinea warzone.

The Hollandsche Schouwburg is a former theatre in Amsterdam where, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, tens of thousands of Jews were assembled before being deported to transit and concentration camps.

Both the Christian Bible and Aristotle's works suggest that water should entirely flood the earth.

Nationalism and Revolution in Europe, 1763-1848 addresses enduring historiographical problems concerning the appearance of the first national movements in Europe and their role in the crises associated with the Age of Revolution.

This study of the Visigothic kingdom's monetary system in southern Gaul and Hispania from the fifth century through the Muslim invasion of Spain fills a major gap in the scholarship of late antiquity.

These five articles, first presented at the conference 'The Holocaust and other Genocides.

This volume interrogates the assumption that Visigothic practices and institutions were mere imitations of the Byzantine empire.

Eurocentrism means seeing the world in Europe's terms and through European eyes.

This book tells the history of the 'federal union', a concept that may be traced from the early Renaissance to the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community (1951), the predecessor of today's European Union.

During the First World War, belligerents infringed on the rights and duties of neutrals, as these had been codified in international agreements.

Hunt for Nazis is the first comprehensive account of the post-1945 efforts to bring Nazi war criminals who had escaped to South America to justice.

The making, eating, and sharing of food throughout society represents an important and exciting area of study with the potential to advance the field of scholarship, particularly in the context of Scandinavian Studies.

Nationalism and Revolution in Europe, 1763-1848 addresses enduring historiographical problems concerning the appearance of the first national movements in Europe and their role in the crises associated with the Age of Revolution.

Between the fifteenth and the eighteenth century, princely courts dominated the Italian political scene.

What was the perception of Greece in Europe during the later nineteenth century, when the attraction of romantic philhellenism had waned?

Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est.

Why do we attach so much value to sites of Holocaust memory, if all we ever encounter are fragments of a past that can never be fully comprehended?

Bringing together sources from many countries and many centuries, this study critically analyses the growth of national thought and of nationalism - from medieval ethnic prejudice to the Romantic belief in a nation's 'soul'.

Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence explores the lived experience of Catholic women and men in the post-Reformation century.

Writing on the cusp of modern botany and during the heyday of English herbals and garden manuals, Shakespeare references at least 180 plants in his works and makes countless allusions to horticultural and botanical practices.

In the medieval period, the monarch was seen as the embodiment of the community of his kingdom, the body politic.

Eurocentrism means seeing the world in Europe's terms and through European eyes.

Guided by the romantic compass of Turner, Byron, and Ruskin, Victorian travellers to the Dolomites sketched in the mountainous backdrop of Venice a cultural 'Petit Tour' of global significance.

This collection of essays from both established and emerging scholars analyses the dynamic connections between conflict and violence in medieval Italy.

From a wider disciplinary perspective, modern conflict archaeology is now a thoroughly established and mature subdiscipline.

Die NS-Geschichte des Unternehmens Swarovski und ein tiefer Einblick in den Umgang mit ehemaligen Nationalsozialisten in der Nachkriegszeit.

Covering the entire European system and its relations with the East and America, this first global history of tolerance in early modern Europe describes how the ideal of tolerance and its realisation transformed both the religious and political life of the modern world.