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Nineteenth-century France grew fascinated with the local past. Thousands of citizens embraced local archaeology, penned historical vignettes and monographs, staged historical pageants, and created museums and pantheons of celebrities. Stephane Gerson's rich, elegantly written, and timely book provides the first cultural and political history of what contemporaries called the "cult of local memories," an unprecedented effort to resuscitate the past, instill affection for one's locality, and hence create a sense of place. A wide range of archival and printed sources (some of them untapped until...

Jméno Nostradamus všichni známe, ale kdo byl tento muž ve skutečnosti? Proč byla jeho proroctví v renesanční Evropě tak vlivná a proč se po dalších pět století stále znovu objevovala? A co vypovídá Nostradamova vytrvalá přítomnost na Západě o nás a o našem světě? Historik Stéphane Gerson svou knihou Nostradamus zve čtenáře na cestu zpět v čase, aby mohli prozkoumat život i posmrtný život Michela de Nostredame, astrologa, jehož Proroctví byla vykládána, postupně přijata všemi médii a nakonec se přeměnila v moderní evangelium zkázy. Kdykoliv se...

Nineteenth-century France grew fascinated with the local past. Thousands of citizens embraced local archaeology, penned historical vignettes and monographs, staged historical pageants, and created museums and pantheons of celebrities. Stephane Gerson's rich, elegantly written, and timely book provides the first cultural and political history of what contemporaries called the "cult of local memories," an unprecedented effort to resuscitate the past, instill affection for one's locality, and hence create a sense of place. A wide range of archival and printed sources (some of them untapped until...