Enrico; Or, Byzantium Conquered: A Heroic Poem
ISBN: 9780226505480 / Angielski / Miękka / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame shone brightly within and outside her native Venice, and whose voice is simultaneously original and reflective of her time and culture. In "Enrico; or, Byzantium Conquered," one of the most ambitious and rewarding of her numerous narrative works, Marinella demonstrates her skill as an epic poet. Now available for the first time in English translation, "Enrico" retells the story of the conquest of Byzantium in the Fourth Crusade (1202-04).... Lucrezia Marinella (1571-1653) is, by all accounts, a phenomenon in early modernity: a woman who wrote and published in many genres, whose fame sho... |
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A History of Western Astrology Volume II: The Medieval and Modern Worlds
ISBN: 9781441181299 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Astrology is a major feature of contemporary popular culture. Recent research indicates that 99% of adults in the modern west know their birth sign. In the modern west astrology thrives as part of our culture despite being a pre-Christian, pre-scientific world-view. Medieval and Renaissance Europe marked the high water mark for astrology. It was a subject of high theological speculation, was used to advise kings and popes, and to arrange any activity from the beginning of battles to the most auspicious time to have one's hair cut. Nicholas Campion examines the foundation of... Astrology is a major feature of contemporary popular culture. Recent research indicates that 99% of adults in the modern west know their birth sign... |
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Odes
ISBN: 9780674035638 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento and served as court poet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. His long life saw him as busy with politics, diplomacy, and intrigue as with literature and scholarship, leaving him very often on the run from rival factions--and even from hired assassins. The first Latin poet of the Renaissance to explore the expressive potential of Horatian meters, Filelfo adapted the traditions of Augustan literature to address... Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the mid... |
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160,39 zł |
The Renaissance
ISBN: 9781604597042 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. included is his celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. This book concludes with an uncompromising advocacy of hedonism, urging readers to experience life as fully as possible. His cry of "art for art's sake" became the manifesto of the Aesthetic Movement, and his assessments of Renaissance art have influenced generations of readers. Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty."
Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. included is his celebrated discussion of th...
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54,20 zł |
The Strained Alliance: Us-European Relations from Nixon to Carter
ISBN: 9780521899994 / Angielski / Twarda / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using a wide array of recently declassified archival materials in the United States and Western Europe, this collection offers new insights into the changing dynamics of transatlantic relations during the era of detente (1969 1980). Whereas prior studies of this decade have focused on the end of the Vietnam War or U.S.-Soviet relations, this volume reveals why bitter conflicts developed between the U.S. and its European allies, and how, contrary to conventional wisdom, European integration evolved less as a consequence of Washington s support than as a result of America s relative decline and...
Using a wide array of recently declassified archival materials in the United States and Western Europe, this collection offers new insights into the c...
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386,99 zł |
Warrington In 1465: As Described In A Contemporary Rent Roll Of The Legh Family, In The Possession Of Thomas Legh, Esquire, Of Lyme Park (
ISBN: 9781437362800 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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134,43 zł |
Mediene Remnants: Yiddish Sources in the Netherlands Outside of Amsterdam
ISBN: 9789004156258 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The inventory presents a survey of extant Yiddish sources in Dutch archives outside of Amsterdam. Most material was hitherto unknown. The inventory aims to stimulate new research on West-Yiddish and the history of Ashkenazi Jewry in The Netherlands.
The inventory presents a survey of extant Yiddish sources in Dutch archives outside of Amsterdam. Most material was hitherto unknown. The inventory ai...
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523,09 zł |
Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective
ISBN: 9780521120739 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting recent research spanning the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century in Western Europe, Argentina, Australia, Japan, and the United States, this survey approaches the history of criminology as a history of science and practice. The essays examine the discourse on crime and criminals that surfaced as part of different discourses and practices, including the activities of the police and the courts, parliamentary debates, and media reports, as well as the writings of moral statisticians, jurists, and medical doctors.
Presenting recent research spanning the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century in Western Europe, Argentina, Australia, Japan, and the United St...
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218,70 zł |
The Ebbs and Flows of Fortune: The Life of Thomas Howard, Third Duke of Norfolk
ISBN: 9780820334912 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Howard became the third duke of Norfolk during the reign of Henry VIII and was involved in many of the most controversial episodes of that era. By some accounts Norfolk became known as the greatest soldier and aristocrat alive under Henry VIII's rule, in Britain a period of transition from medieval to modern and spanning the Renaissance and Reformation. In this first comprehensive biography of Norfolk David M. Head confronts the central paradox of Norfolk's career. Here was a man of enormous ambition and family pride whose talents never matched that ambition-a man whose military... Thomas Howard became the third duke of Norfolk during the reign of Henry VIII and was involved in many of the most controversial episodes of that e... |
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189,12 zł |
Under the Cover of War: The Zionist Expulsion of the Palestinians
ISBN: 9780981513133 / Angielski / Miękka / 439 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,20 zł |
Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870: A Tragedy of Manners
ISBN: 9780521121255 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compelling example of the new cultural history of South Africa is a subtle and wide-ranging study of status and respectability in the colonial Cape. Focusing on domestic relationships, gender, education, and religion, it analyzes values and modes of thinking current in different social strata, arguing that these cultural factors were related to high political developments. The result is a rich account of changes in social identity that accompanied the transition from Dutch to British overrule, and the development of white racism and ideologies of resistance to white domination.
This compelling example of the new cultural history of South Africa is a subtle and wide-ranging study of status and respectability in the colonial Ca...
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142,39 zł |
Masters and Servants on the Cape Eastern Frontier, 1760-1803
ISBN: 9780521121248 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describing the volatile relationship between European settlers and the indigenous Khoisan peoples in eighteenth-century southern Africa, this book explores the underlying causes of this pervasive violence in the eastern Cape, and considers the fate of the many women and children captured by Boer commandos and then assimilated to the condition of captive labor. It also offers a detailed analysis of the frontier economy, linking it to the markets and merchants of Cape Town, and revealing its subservience to the commercial policies of the Dutch East India Company.
Describing the volatile relationship between European settlers and the indigenous Khoisan peoples in eighteenth-century southern Africa, this book exp...
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167,83 zł |
A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex: Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings
ISBN: 9780226779218 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632-1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination, access to knowledge, and assertion of authority. This volume collects Suchon's writing from two works-"Treatise on Ethics and Politics" (1693) and "On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; or, Life without Commitments" (1700)-and demonstrates her to be an original philosophical and moral thinker and writer. Suchon argues that both women and men have inherently similar intellectual, corporeal, and spiritual capacities, which... During the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1632-1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and... |
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214,20 zł |
Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation
ISBN: 9781316637524 / Angielski / Miękka / 443 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the significance of the act of drawing, establishing new foundations, appreciation of artistic drawings.
This book explores the significance of the act of drawing, establishing new foundations, appreciation of artistic drawings.
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155,65 zł |
Inventing the Indigenous: Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 9780521124010 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of expanding commercial voyages, many people in early modern Europe became curious about the plants and minerals around them and began to compile catalogs of them. Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book argues that, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports -- whether medieval spices like cinnamon or new American arrivals like chocolate and tobacco -- learned physicians began to urge their readers to discover their own "indigenous" natural worlds. In response, compilers of local inventories created...
In the wake of expanding commercial voyages, many people in early modern Europe became curious about the plants and minerals around them and began to ...
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Strangers in Blood: Relocating Race in the Renaissance
ISBN: 9781442641402 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical degeneration of individuals. Arguing that, in early modern discourse, the concept of race was primarily linked with notions of bloodline, lineage, and genealogy rather than with skin colour and ethnicity, Jean E. Feerick establishes that the characterization of settler communities as subject to degenerative decline constituted a massive challenge to the fixed system of blood that had hitherto underpinned the English social... Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and p... |
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289,98 zł |
The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1926 to 2081, Volume 14
ISBN: 9781442640443 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The predominant theme of the letters of 1528 is Erasmus' controversies with a variety of critics and opponents. The publication in March of the dialogue Ciceronianus, for example, provoked a huge uproar in France because it included an ironic jest that was considered insulting to the great French humanist Guillaume Bud?. More serious were the continuing efforts of conservative Catholics in France (No?l B?da), Italy (Alberto Pio), and Spain (members of the religious orders) to prove not only that Erasmus was a secret Lutheran but also that humanist scholarship was the source of the... The predominant theme of the letters of 1528 is Erasmus' controversies with a variety of critics and opponents. The publication in March of the dia... |
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808,88 zł |
A Cultural History of Latin America
ISBN: 9780521623278 / Angielski / Twarda / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Cultural History of Latin America brings together chapters from Volumes III, IV, and X of The Cambridge History of Latin America. The essays place Latin American literature, music and visual arts in historical context, from the early nineteenth century through the late twentieth century. Topics include narrative fiction and poetry; indigenous literatures and culture; the development of music, sculpture, painting, mural art, and architecture; and the history of Latin American film. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.
A Cultural History of Latin America brings together chapters from Volumes III, IV, and X of The Cambridge History of Latin America. The essays place L...
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Réussite scolaire, Faillite Sociale. Généalogie mentale de la crise de l'Afrique Noire Francophone
ISBN: 9789956616275 / Francuski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Deux series de manuels scolaires ont principalement programme la repulsion de soi et l'attraction par l'autre propres aux elites d'Afrique noire: les collections des Freres missionnaires Macaire et Grill comme Mamadou et Bineta d'Andre Davesne seul ou avec J. Gouin. Un siecle apres, pour rendre intelligible le type d'homme produit par l'Ecole etrangere en colonie, nous avons remonte l'itineraire parcouru a travers leurs lectures par des generations d'ecoliers pour savoir quelles sources avaient alimente leur imaginaire... Desaccorde aux codes de son univers natal, incapable de concretiser...
Deux series de manuels scolaires ont principalement programme la repulsion de soi et l'attraction par l'autre propres aux elites d'Afrique noire: les ...
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232,80 zł |
At the End of the Line: Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame 1945-80
ISBN: 9780719071393 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain's long and turbulent process of decolonisation - an explosive era marked by political upheaval and colonial conflict. End of empire provides the colourful backdrop back-drop for Georgina Sinclair's incisive examination of the role Colonial Police Service, following its creation in 1936, as efforts were made to standardize all imperial police forces and mould colonial policing to the British model. From the British Caribbean to the Middle East, the...
Colonial Policing and the Imperial Endgame is the first comprehensive study of the colonial police and their complex role within Britain's long and tu...
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101,69 zł |