European history

Samuel Rutherford is among the most loved authors of the Puritan period: his letters, written largely to members of his congregation at Anwoth in Galloway, Scotland are still available, having never been out of print since 1664.

Based on a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council, this book analyses 40 years of post-war independent immigrant filmmaking in Sweden.

Im Frühjahr 1943 hatte die Gestapo die meisten der verbliebenen Juden aus dem Deutschen Reich deportiert und löste die letzten jüdischen Gemeinden auf.

This book engages with an extensive corpus of Francophone Jewish poetry of the Shoah written from 1939 to the present day.

Frühe Handschriften bezeugen Ambrosius als den Verfasser der in fünf Bücher umgestalteten lateinischen Version der ‘Geschichte des Jüdischen Krieges gegen die Römer’, die Flavius Josephus in sieben Büchern griechisch vorgegebenen hatte.

In this fascinating reappraisal of the non-literary drama of the late 19th- early 20th century,

Christopher Fitz-Simon discloses a unique world of plays, players and producers in metropolitan theatres in Ireland

and other countries where Ireland was viewed as a source of extraordinary topics:

At once contemporary and comfortably remote: revolution, eviction, famine, agrarian agitation, political assassination.