Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics brings together disparate feminist theoretical approaches to explore the formation of medieval female subject consciousness in writings by female mystics including Angela of Foligno, Catherine of Siena, and Margery Kempe, as well as secular writings of Christine de Pizan, and powerful female characters of Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer.
Late Medieval Female Subject Consciousness: Italian and English Mystics brings together disparate feminist theoretical approaches to explore the formation of medieval female subject consciousness in writings by female mystics including Angela of Foligno, Catherine of Siena, and Margery Kempe, as well as secular writings of Christine de Pizan, and powerful female characters of Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer.
La guerra -que Tucidides definio como "e;maestra de modales violentos"e; que disolvia los usos civilizados- vuelve a instalarse en el horizonte de la Europa actual.
La guerra -que Tucidides definio como "e;maestra de modales violentos"e; que disolvia los usos civilizados- vuelve a instalarse en el horizonte de la Europa actual.
Este libro analiza la participacion de las escritoras del exilio republicano espanol en los medios de comunicacion masivos de Argentina prensa periodica y radio dirigidos al publico femenino, concebidos como espacios clave para la reconfiguracion de sus trayectorias intelectuales y de sus militancias.
Este libro analiza la participacion de las escritoras del exilio republicano espanol en los medios de comunicacion masivos de Argentina prensa periodica y radio dirigidos al publico femenino, concebidos como espacios clave para la reconfiguracion de sus trayectorias intelectuales y de sus militancias.
During the 900-day Siege of Leningrad in World War II, a group of Soviet botanists at the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry faced an impossible choice.
Jeder kennt den beruhmten Satz, den Goethe ihm in den Mund legte, doch die historische Realitat des Gotz von Berlichingen ist weitaus faszinierender als das literarische Denkmal.
This is a fascinating combination of biographical material about the great Scottish engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834), and a modern travelogue that revisits the places in the Highlands and Islands where he worked over a period of 20 years.
This book aims to provide insights regarding business management and corporate expansion in Germany from the late 19th century until the end of World War II (periods of the Second Reich, the Weimar Republic, and National Socialism) from the perspective of comparative management studies.
This book examines the intersections of sport, race, gender, social networks and social movements with a case study of the North-American nonprofit organization 'Black Girl Hockey Club' (BGHC).
This book examines patterns of national integration and the mobilisation of the peasantry across two historical regions, Central and Eastern Europe, over a long historical timeframe, spanning from the 1848 Revolution to the outbreak of the Second World War.
Beginning with the premise that religious and non-religious identities were fluid, overlapping phenomena rather than static, binary conditions, this timely edited collection challenges the traditional notion that atheism was an acute intellectual innovation of Western modernity by rethinking its multifarious pre-modern manifestations and impact in Brazil, China, England, France, Italy, New England, Poland, Scotland, Spain, and Transylvania.
Beginning with the premise that religious and non-religious identities were fluid, overlapping phenomena rather than static, binary conditions, this timely edited collection challenges the traditional notion that atheism was an acute intellectual innovation of Western modernity by rethinking its multifarious pre-modern manifestations and impact in Brazil, China, England, France, Italy, New England, Poland, Scotland, Spain, and Transylvania.
This book examines the influence and strategic efforts of the Comintern, the agency created in 1919 by Lenin to promote world revolution, during the Spanish civil war.
This book examines the previously hidden and unpublished submissions made to the Irish Boundary Commission in 1924-25, offering a rare glimpse into a pivotal moment in Irish and British history.
