In the days before Botox, power cleanses and spin classes, women s fitness and beauty regimes pursued a very different ideal. The emphasis was on classic glamor and a fuller, womanly body shape, and between the 1920s and 1950s women everywhere looked to Hollywood s most stylish and iconic beauties for inspiration. Hollywood Diet and Fitness: Vintage Secrets reveals exactly what went into creating the looks made famous by the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly, detailing the eating habits, exercise routines, and style tips that helped usher in a golden age of...
In the days before Botox, power cleanses and spin classes, women s fitness and beauty regimes pursued a very different ideal. The emphasis was on clas...
War and violence took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe, from political and territorial conflict to judicial and social spectacle; from religious persecution and crusade to self-mortification and martyrdom; from comedic brutality to civil and domestic aggression. Various cultural frameworks conditioned both the acceptance of these forms of violence, and the protest that they met with: the elusive concept of chivalry, Christianity and just war theory, political ambition and the machinery of propaganda, literary genres and the expectations they generated and challenged. The essays...
War and violence took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe, from political and territorial conflict to judicial and social spectacle; from r...
