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Literary Circles in Byzantine Iconoclasm: Patrons, Politics and Saints
By Óscar Prieto Domínguez. 2020
Iconoclasm was the name given to the stance of that portion of Eastern Christianity that rejected worshipping God through images…
(eikones) representing Christ, the Virgin or the saints and was the official doctrine of the Byzantine Empire for most of the period between 726 and 843. It was a period marked by violent passions on either side. This is the first comprehensive account of the extant contemporary texts relating to this phenomenon and their impact on society, politics and identity. By examining the literary circles emerging both during the time of persecution and immediately after the restoration of icons in 843, the volume casts new light on the striking (re)construction of Byzantine society, whose iconophile identity was biasedly redefined by the political parties led by Theodoros Stoudites, Gregorios Dekapolites and Empress Theodora or the patriarchs Methodios, Ignatios and Photios. It thereby offers an innovative paradigm for approaching Byzantine literature.Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint
By Roy Flechner. 2019
A gripping biography that brings together the most recent research to shed provocative new light on the life of Saint…
PatrickSaint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by rumors that he settled in Ireland for financial gain, the man who was to become Ireland’s patron saint battled against great odds before succeeding as a missionary. Saint Patrick Retold draws on recent research to offer a fresh assessment of Patrick’s travails and achievements. This is the first biography in nearly fifty years to explore Patrick’s career against the background of historical events in late antique Britain and Ireland.Roy Flechner examines the likelihood that Patrick, like his father before him, might have absconded from a career as an imperial official responsible for taxation, preferring instead to migrate to Ireland with his family’s slaves, who were his source of wealth. Flechner leaves no stone unturned as he takes readers on a riveting journey through Romanized Britain and late Iron Age Ireland, and he considers how best to interpret the ambiguous literary and archaeological evidence from this period of great political and economic instability, a period that brought ruin for some and opportunity for others. Rather than a dismantling of Patrick’s reputation, or an argument against his sainthood, Flechner’s biography raises crucial questions about self-image and the making of a reputation.From boyhood deeds to the challenges of a missionary enterprise, Saint Patrick Retold steps beyond established narratives to reassess a notable figure’s life and legacy.Historia de España sin mitos ni tópicos
By César Cervera, Manuel P. Villatoro. 1782
Un recorrido didáctico y rico por los grandes hechos y personajes que marcaron la historia de España. Los mitos han…
perseguido a España desde que Escipión Emiliano sitió Numancia. Durante los siguientes siglos se han esgrimido una retahíla de falacias sobre este país que, a golpe de repetirse, han forjado la llamada Leyenda Negra. Este libro se enfrenta a todas ellas. Desde la idea de que la brutalidad campó a sus anchas a partir del siglo XVI, hasta la que muestra a los conquistadores como bárbaros sedientos de sangre. Con la veracidad y el rigor de los datos por estandarte, y bajo la premisa de buscar siempre una divulgación amena, los periodistas César Cervera y Manuel Villatoro abordan en estas páginas las gestas más reconocidas de las tropas españolas a lo largo de dos mil años, las peripecias más llamativas de los monarcas que han dirigido este país o, entre otras muchas cosas, los hitos más destacados de su pasado. Un paseo rico y fascinante para acercarnos un poco más al relato más apasionante de todos: el de nuestra historia. Algunos lectores ilustres han dicho...«Un ramillete de artículos que responden a la máxima horaciana de enseñar deleitando (prodesse et delectare). ¿Qué más se puede desear?»Juan Eslava Galán «César Cervera y Manu Villatoro convierten la historia de España en noticia de portada que no te puedes perder. ¡Imprescindible!»Isabel San Sebastián «Estos jóvenes periodistas han conseguido contar la historia de España como si fuera el mejor de los reportajes: riguroso, ágil, veraz, informativo y ameno.»Antonio Pérez HenaresMichelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece
By William E. Wallace. 2019
The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades—and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian RenaissanceAs he…
entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger artists, this supreme painter and sculptor began carving his own tomb. It was at this unlikely moment that fate intervened to task Michelangelo with the most ambitious and daunting project of his long creative life.Michelangelo, God's Architect is the first book to tell the full story of Michelangelo's final two decades, when the peerless artist refashioned himself into the master architect of St. Peter’s Basilica and other major buildings. When the Pope handed Michelangelo control of the St. Peter’s project in 1546, it was a study in architectural mismanagement, plagued by flawed design and faulty engineering. Assessing the situation with his uncompromising eye and razor-sharp intellect, Michelangelo overcame the furious resistance of Church officials to persuade the Pope that it was time to start over.In this richly illustrated book, leading Michelangelo expert William Wallace sheds new light on this least familiar part of Michelangelo’s biography, revealing a creative genius who was also a skilled engineer and enterprising businessman. The challenge of building St. Peter’s deepened Michelangelo’s faith, Wallace shows. Fighting the intrigues of Church politics and his own declining health, Michelangelo became convinced that he was destined to build the largest and most magnificent church ever conceived. And he was determined to live long enough that no other architect could alter his design.The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911-1914 (Dover Thrift Editions)
By Winston Churchill. 2015
Best known as the Prime Minister who guided Britain through World War II, Winston Churchill also played an active role…
in the preceding war, during which he served as his country's First Lord of the Admiralty and the leader of its aerial defense. After masterminding the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, he resigned from the government and sought to rehabilitate his reputation by serving with the army on the Western Front. Before and after World War I, Churchill wrote several books that remain popular with students and historians. Written with his customary flair and enriched by his firsthand knowledge of events, Churchill's The World Crisis series remains the greatest history of World War I. This unabridged first volume vividly recounts the status of the world's nations at the war's outbreak, It traces the international tensions over the Balkan states that triggered the conflict as well as the arms race between the British and German navies.Al borde del camino... Aquitania: el final de una guerra
By Juan Serey Aguilera- Elena Perez Galiano, Annemarie Nikolaus. 2014
Breve descripción Un evento del verano para aquellos pasan sus vacaciones en el sudeste de Francia o en la costa…
del Atlántico: una recreación de la última batalla de la guerra de los cien años en la Dordoña. Al borde del camino...hay unos poco conocidos eventos y lugares, en los que vale la pena hacer una pausa. Esta publicación suministra una sinopsis de los acontecimientos históricos y sus contextos junto a la introducción al espectáculo en Castillon-la-Bataille. Además incluye información útil apara las visitas de la comarca: *La batalla. El espectáculo *La Guyena inglesa *La batalla histórica *El fin de la estrategia caballeresca *Qué ver en Castillon-la-BatailleAfter Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GDR
By Enrico Heitzer, Martin Jander, Anetta Kahane, Patrice G. Poutrus. 2021
From the moment of its inception, the East German state sought to cast itself as a clean break from the…
horrors of National Socialism. Nonetheless, the precipitous rise of xenophobic, far-right parties across the present-day German East is only the latest evidence that the GDR’s legacy cannot be understood in isolation from the Nazi era nor the political upheavals of today. This provocative collection reflects on the heretofore ignored or repressed aspects of German mainstream society—including right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and racism—to call for an ambitious renewal of historical research and political education to place East Germany in its proper historical context.O consenso internacional construído em torno do modelo ocidental e sua abordagem civilizacional nas últimas décadas não demorou a mostrar…
sinais de fragilidade diante das crises estruturais induzidas pela pressão por uma globalização injusta. As dúvidas que suscitam a gestão pouco tranquilizadora deste projeto de globalização e as grandes crises globais, como a pandemia por Covid-19 que se alastrou por todas as nações, merecem, no entanto, uma pausa para reflexão aprofundada a fim de melhor compreender esta situação sem precedentes na história humana! Neste ensaio, dou a minha contribuição significativa na compreensão do novo processo civilizacional humano que se tornou um modelo único para todas as nações contemporâneas, de acordo com minha abordagem «geocivilizacional», oferecendo um olhar lúcido e sereno sobre as causas históricas da liderança dos ocidentais.The Concept of Genocide in International Criminal Law: Developments after Lemkin
By Marco Odello. 2021
This book presents a review of historical and emerging legal issues that concern the interpretation of the international crime of…
genocide. The Polish legal expert Raphael Lemkin formulated the concept of genocide during the Nazi occupation of Europe, and it was then incorporated into the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This volume looks at the issues that are raised both by the existing international law definition of genocide and by the possible developments that continue to emerge under international criminal law. The authors consider how the concept of genocide might be used in different contexts, and see whether the definition in the 1948 convention may need some revision, also in the light of the original ideas that were expressed by Lemkin. The book focuses on specific themes that allow the reader to understand some of the problems related to the legal definition of genocide, in the context of historical and recent developments. As a valuable contribution to the debate on the significance, meaning and application of the crime of genocide the book will be essential reading for students and academics working in the areas of Legal History, International Criminal Law, Human Rights, and Genocide Studies.Coercion, Capital and European States, A. D. 990 - 1992 (Studies In Social Discontinuity)
By Charles Tilly. 1993
In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically,…
Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety of kinds of states which were viable at different stages of European history, and because they assume a unilinear path of state development resolving in today's national state.My Karst and My City and Other Essays (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library)
By Scipio Slataper. 2020
Scipio Slataper is one of the most prominent writers from the Italian town of Trieste. Before the onslaught of World…
War One, Trieste was a unique urban environment and the largest port in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was a financially powerful city and a cosmopolitan centre where Slavic, Germanic, and Italian cultures intersected. Much of Slataper’s oeuvre is highly influenced by Trieste’s cultural complexity and its multi-ethnic environment. Slataper’s major literary achievement, My Karst and My City – a fictionalized, lyrical autobiography, translated here in its entirety – offers a unique example of an Italian modernist narrative, one that is influenced both by Slataper’s collaboration with the Florentine journal La Voce, and by the Germanic and Scandinavian literature that he absorbed while living in Trieste. My Karst and My City, together with the excerpts from his reflections on Ibsen and other critical essays included here, adds a new voice and a different dimension to our understanding of European modernism.Ibsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Works
By Evert Sprinchorn. 2020
A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographical reading of his…
plays Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen achieved unparalleled success in his lifetime and remains one of the most important figures in modern drama. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Evert Sprinchorn&’s biography constructs Ibsen&’s life through a biographical reading of his plays with provocative and insightful analyses of his works, placing them and their author within the social, political, and intellectual foment of nineteenth-century Europe. This thought-provoking book will captivate anyone interested in the history of drama and the foundations of modernism.The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. War and the State in…
Early Modern Europe examines this military change as a central part of the political, social and economic transformation of early modern Europe.This important study exposes the economic structures necessary for supporting permanent military organisations across Europe. Large armed forces could not develop successfully without various interest groups who needed protection and were willing to pay for it. Arguing that early fiscal-military states were in fact protection-selling enterprises, the author focuses on:* Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden* the role of local elites* the political and organisational aspects of this new military developmentIn the 1980s and 1990s, Black German women began to play significant roles in challenging the discrimination in their own…
nation and abroad. Their grassroots organizing, writings, and political and cultural activities nurtured innovative traditions, ideas, and practices. These strategies facilitated new, often radical bonds between people from disparate backgrounds across the Black Diaspora. Tiffany N. Florvil examines the role of queer and straight women in shaping the contours of the modern Black German movement as part of the Black internationalist opposition to racial and gender oppression. Florvil shows the multifaceted contributions of women to movement making, including Audre Lorde’s role in influencing their activism; the activists who inspired Afro-German women to curate their own identities and histories; and the evolution of the activist groups Initiative of Black Germans and Afro-German Women. These practices and strategies became a rallying point for isolated and marginalized women (and men) and shaped the roots of contemporary Black German activism. Richly researched and multidimensional in scope, Mobilizing Black Germany offers a rare in-depth look at the emergence of the modern Black German movement and Black feminists’ politics, intellectualism, and internationalism.Apaciguar a Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill y el camino a la guerra
By Tim Bouverie. 2019
¿Cómo actuar si el líder de una gran potencia es un psicópata? El 30 de septiembre de 1938, el primer…
ministro británico, Neville Chamberlain, recién llegado de Múnich, anunciaba que su reunión con Hitler había evitado la mayor crisis de la época contemporánea y que la «paz para nuestra era» estaba asegurada. Menos de un año después, Alemania invadía Polonia y estallaba la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Apaciguar a Hitler es el brillante recuento del desastroso periodo de inacción política que permitió la consolidación del régimen nazi. Narrado de forma trepidante y repleto de escenas memorables, este libro es el resultado de una profunda y exhaustiva investigación, ofrece un retrato perturbador e inquietante de los ministros, aristócratas y diplomáticos amateurs al mando y desvela los mercadeos y vulgares intereses, las falsedades y posverdades, que hicieron posible el ascenso del nazismo y acabaron provocando la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Desde los comienzos del Tercer Reich, con la llegada al poder de Hitler en 1933, hasta las playas de Dunquerque Tim Bouverie no solo narra un momento histórico de gran envergadura sino una lección atemporal sobre las dificultades de alzarse en contra de la agresividad y el autoritarismo y las calamidades que resultan de no hacerlo. La crítica ha dicho...«Un debut asombroso.»Antony Beevor «El historiador joven más prometedor en entrar en nuestro campo de investigación desde hace años.»Max Hastings «El magnífico debut de un joven historiador excepcional. Tim Bouverie nos ofrece un recuento de los momentos que nos condujeron a la Segunda Guerra Mundial que se lee como un thriller.»Peter Frankopan «Tim Bouverie cuenta la historia del apaciguamiento con destreza, entusiasmo y garbo y explora de manera brillante las mentalidades subyacentes de las decisiones políticas.»Ian KershawUkraine was liberated from German wartime occupation by 1944 but remained prisoner to its consequences for much longer. This study…
examines Soviet Ukraine's transition from war to 'peace' in the long aftermath of World War II. Filip Slaveski explores the challenges faced by local Soviet authorities in reconstructing central Ukraine, including feeding rapidly growing populations in post-war famine. Drawing on recently declassified Soviet sources, Filip Slaveski traces the previously unknown bitter struggle for land, food and power among collective farmers at the bottom of the Soviet social ladder, local and central authorities. He reveals how local authorities challenged central ones for these resources in pursuit of their own vision of rebuilding central Ukraine, undermining the Stalinist policies they were supposed to implement and forsaking the farmers in the process. In so doing, Slaveski demonstrates how the consequences of this battle shaped post-war reconstruction, and continue to resonate in contemporary Ukraine, especially with the ordinary people caught in the middle.White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
By Tyler Stovall. 2021
The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedomThe era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions…
of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth century to today, revealing how being free has meant being white.Tyler Stovall explores the intertwined histories of racism and freedom in France and the United States, the two leading nations that have claimed liberty as the heart of their national identities. He explores how French and American thinkers defined freedom in racial terms and conceived of liberty as an aspect and privilege of whiteness. He discusses how the Statue of Liberty—a gift from France to the United States and perhaps the most famous symbol of freedom on Earth—promised both freedom and whiteness to European immigrants. Taking readers from the Age of Revolution to today, Stovall challenges the notion that racism is somehow a paradox or contradiction within the democratic tradition, demonstrating how white identity is intrinsic to Western ideas about liberty. Throughout the history of modern Western liberal democracy, freedom has long been white freedom.A major work of scholarship that is certain to draw a wide readership and transform contemporary debates, White Freedom provides vital new perspectives on the inherent racism behind our most cherished beliefs about freedom, liberty, and human rights.(Not quite) Mastering the art of French living
By Mark Greenside. 2020
Despite the two decades that have passed since Mark Greenside's snap decision to buy a house in Brittany and begin…
a bi-continental life, the quirks of French living still manage to confound him. This book details Greenside's daily adventures in his adopted French home, where the simplest tasks are never straightforward, but always end in a great storyA Laboratory of Her Own: Women and Science in Spanish Culture
By Victoria L. Ketz, Dawn Smith-Sherwood, and Debra Faszer-Mcmahon. 2021
A Laboratory of Her Own gathers diverse voices to address women's interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish…
cultural production. This volume focuses on the many ways the arts and humanities provide avenues for deepening the conversation about how women have been involved in, excluded from, and represented within the scientific realm. While women's historic exclusion from STEM fields has been receiving increased scrutiny worldwide, women within the Spanish context have been perhaps even more peripheral given the complex sociocultural structures emanating from gender norms and political ideologies dominant in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain. Nonetheless, Spanish female cultural producers have long been engaged with science and technology, as expressed in literature, art, film, and other genres. Spanish arts and letters offer diverse representations of the relationships between women, gender, sexuality, race, and STEM fields.A Laboratory of Her Own studies representations of a diverse range of Spanish women and scientific cultural products from the late nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. STEM topics include the environment, biodiversity, temporal and spatial theories, medicine and reproductive rights, neuroscience, robotics, artificial intelligence, and quantum physics. These scientific themes and other issues are analyzed in narratives, paintings, poetry, photographs, science fiction, medical literature, translation, newswriting, film, and other forms.