When the bishop Hydatius found himself held hostage in Gallaecia, a Roman province in the northwestern Iberian Peninsula, by a band of Sueves in the year 460, he deployed his experience as an ambassador for his congregation and used his captivity as a tool for negotiating peace.
A revealing look at differing threat perceptions in six key NATO countriesWhen Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, analysts and policymakers highlighted the unifying shock that NATO members experienced.
This socio-historical monograph compares the two theologians Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) and Martin Rade (1857-1940) in a transatlantic juxtaposition, with a particular focus on the political and social dimensions of their thought and work.
Gegründet im Heiligen Land als bescheidene Hospitalbruderschaft, entwickelte sich der Deutsche Orden zu einer der mächtigsten militärischen und politischen Kräfte des Mittelalters.
This volume brings together essays on a wide range of topics, from the popular notion of ‘climacterical’ years believed to recur every seventh year, and the origins and development of the concept of ‘palliative’ care in premodern medicine, to the early modern understanding of ‘melancholia’ as a disease rather than just a temperament, and its visual representation in the famous ‘Melancholia’ paintings of Lukas Cranach the Elder.
This book examines Greece's evolving relationship with the West from 1974 to 1983, focusing on the country’s transition from a peripheral European state to a central member of the Western community.
This volume brings together essays on a wide range of topics, from the popular notion of ‘climacterical’ years believed to recur every seventh year, and the origins and development of the concept of ‘palliative’ care in premodern medicine, to the early modern understanding of ‘melancholia’ as a disease rather than just a temperament, and its visual representation in the famous ‘Melancholia’ paintings of Lukas Cranach the Elder.
Aesthetic Femininity and Domestic Modernity in Late Victorian Advice Literature considers how the domestic interior is constituted, imag(in)ed, contested, and mediated in the public forum of advice literature.
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurden in Deutschland Hunderttausende Kinder von alliierten Soldaten und einheimischen Frauen geboren - aus Liebesbeziehungen, kurzen Affaren, Versorgungspartnerschaften oder Vergewaltigungen.
Discover How Small Acts Spark Big Changes in Life and CommunityImagine a world where kindness isnt just a fleeting feeling, but a force that transforms your well-being, relationships, and the very fabric of society.
This book examines Greece's evolving relationship with the West from 1974 to 1983, focusing on the country’s transition from a peripheral European state to a central member of the Western community.
Im Schatten der Kreuzzüge und im Bann einer unvergänglichen Legende entführt "Tempelritter: Macht und Mysterium – Historische Mythen und Mysterien eines sagenumwobenen Ordens" von Frank Dresen den Leser in die faszinierende Welt eines Ordens, dessen Ruhm und Geheimnisse bis in die heutige Zeit nachhallen.
This groundbreaking work explores Soren Kierkegaard as a pioneering figure in Performance Theory, revealing how his philosophical approach anticipated contemporary Performance Studies concepts.
The Mnemonic Warriors of the European Far Right is a comparative analysis of the politics and policy of memory as seen through the conceptual lens of Pierre Nora's lieux de memoire.
This groundbreaking work explores Soren Kierkegaard as a pioneering figure in Performance Theory, revealing how his philosophical approach anticipated contemporary Performance Studies concepts.
In this book, originally published in 1977, John Lukacs argues that the years 1939-41 were the decisive phase of the Second World War and The Last European War describes the history of an entire continent during these two years, one of the most crucial periods in Western civilization.
First published in 1988, A Chronology of Post War British Politics provides the first convenient chronological reference source for the modern British political scene.
In this book, originally published in 1977, John Lukacs argues that the years 1939-41 were the decisive phase of the Second World War and The Last European War describes the history of an entire continent during these two years, one of the most crucial periods in Western civilization.
First published in 1988, A Chronology of Post War British Politics provides the first convenient chronological reference source for the modern British political scene.
First published in 1967, Europe in Conflict offers a comprehensive exploration of Europe's turbulent history during a period marked by profound political, social, and military upheaval.
First published in 1972, England, France and Christendom, 1377-99 is the study of the most fiercely fought portion of the Hundred Years' War and describes the nature of the wars that took place during the reigns of Charles VI of France and Richard II of England.
This book offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative account of the natural philosophy and of the conception of the laws of nature by Francis Bacon, one of the leading English reformers of natural science and an inspirer of the Scientific Revolution.
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline.
This volume explores the practices of shopping in Europe during the long eighteenth century, a period during which consumption choices expanded to encompass much larger groups than before.
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline.
Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically contextualized examination of the mechanics of blackness in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Focusing on one broadly representative figure, Francis Bedford, this study emphasizes how photographs operated to form and transmit cultural ideas and values.
