Twenty-three powerful, moving, angry and wise essays published over a period of 15 years on subjects ranging from South Africa to Central America, the United States to the Soviet Union, all bound together by the lingering physical, psychological, political and intellectual sensibilities the author first developed as a young enlisted Marine during the Vietnam war.
Straßennamen sind weit mehr als bloße Orientierungshilfen – sie spiegeln gesellschaftliche Machtkämpfe, Identitätsfragen und politische Diskurse wider.
This book, originally published in 1980, examines the history of the papacy in the century between the end of the Great Schism and the start of the Reformation, and considers how, and at what price, the popes were able to re-establish their power after the troubles of the years from 1378 to 1417.
The Star-Crossed Renaissance (1941) examines the attitude of the thinkers of Renaissance England toward astrology, Was Shakespeare, for example, a believer in astrology?
First published in 1969, Conflict and Stability in Fifteenth-Century England is a study of a much neglected and misinterpreted century of English history-the century of the Wars of the Roses which, the author shows, had only a comparatively small effect on English life.
Stella works at a cute little bakery all while trying to get her own party planning business up and running and making sure she has enough money to put keep food in her fridge.
"e;Paris is worth a mass"e; was the realistic response of Protestant Henry IV, who changed his faith to secure the throne of France, to the central importance of the French Catholic Church.
