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The monograph presents the Polish history of haiku and the forms associated with this genre – in literature and visual arts. Polish works are confronted with Japanese poetry (along with its aesthetic, philosophical and ethical contexts) and with haiku-inspired...
The book provides the first comprehensive study of love and ethics in Middle English and Middle Scots poems written at the close of the Middle Ages by Geoffrey Chaucer, James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas. It shows that medieval poems often...
This collection of studies examines different aspects of Romanian diplomacy in the 20th century, thus highlighting the activity of various diplomats, seeking to explain the changes produced within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs following political transformations in...
Cultural historians, literary scholars and linguists have been concerned with the question of how the world can be understood and represented in text. This volume presents new questions, methods and approaches in Humanism by promoting scholarly work of young researchers...
The book focuses on the Polish social policy, its contextual (historical, organisational, conceptual, financial) conditionings, the institutions it fitted in, and primarily on the practical activities, undertaken by the state and other entities with regard to its...
Humanists look up to Hellas as the cradle of European culture. The book spans nearly five centuries of a later epoch of this worthy tradition. Starting with the awesome high-mediaeval Cathars, the exposition proceeds in chronological order. Eventually, we meet Giordano...
This book is a pioneering synthesis of the history of Poland, 1914–1918, summing up 100 years of the work of historians on the period and outlining new research aims. It is an integrated approach to the story of the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian zones of...
In 1239, king Louis IX of France performed the translation of the Crown of Thorns from Constantinople to Paris. The translation celebrations became a splendid religious festivity showing sacral foundations of Saint Louis’s authority and the Capetian kingship. However,...
This book discusses early-modern collective identities related to territory, language, cultural milieu, state, and alleged "ethnic" origins in the border and multilingual areas of Friuli and the County of Gorizia before the rise of nineteenth - century nationalisms. It...
The book maps the development of Hungarian society and its way of thinking with a specific focus on the territory of Slovakia from the 11th to the 18th century.The intention of the contributors was to present a continuity of history by examining contemporary phenomena,...
This book analyzes the history of the black market in Poland before the 1940s and the development of black-market phenomena in post-war Poland. The author evaluates the interrelation between black-market phenomena and historical and geographical conditions. At first,...
The textbook concentrates on selected topics and problematic aspects in preparing a cohesive and well-organised academic paper, such as: the relation between thinking and writing, establishing arguments, using logic and appropriate language in argumentative writing.The...
In this case study of BBC Radio News, that shows how radio journalism has changed since the 1960s, the author paints a picture of the changing nature of the profession and the style of writing. She draws on interviews with practitioners, BBC official documents, style...
Media and Materiality in the Neo-Avant-Garde explores the materiality of media technologies and their impact on the avant-garde of the late twentieth century. The essays of the volume range between different art forms (literature, film, music, visual art, performance)...
Die Verleihung des Friedensnobelpreises von 1971 an Willy Brandt überraschte damals viele Deutsche. Doch das norwegische Nobelkomitee einte die Überzeugung, dass niemand im Jahr zuvor mehr für den Frieden in der Welt geleistet hatte als der deutsche Bundeskanzler. Über...
Die Studie untersucht auf Grundlage der masonischen Publizistik die Geschichte der deutschen Freimaurerei in den Jahrzehnten der langen Jahrhundertwende. Sie rückt in diesem Zusammenhang die masonische Identität und die konfliktreichen innerfreimaurerischen...
Die Autoren des Buches stellen die kirchenpolitische, soziokulturelle und institutionelle Geschichte der Budweiser Prälatur in den Jahren 1851–1907 dar. Dieser thematischen Ausrichtung und dem gewählten Zeitrahmen entspricht auch die Struktur dem Buch.Die Darstellung...
Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches stehen Schriftsteller, Journalisten und Professoren, deren Prägungen, Denk- und Wirkungsräume. Portraitiert werden außerdem einige der Medien, die sie zur Verbreitung ihrer Einsichten, Visionen und Überzeugungen benutzen. Sichtbar werden...
Über die Schrecken der beiden Weltkriege in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts gerät oft in Vergessenheit, dass sich viele Deutsche in der Weimarer Republik für Frieden, Verständigung und Versöhnung zwischen den Völkern eingesetzt haben. Dies geschah oft gegen...
Dieses Buch umfasst Studien zum Leben und Werk des in der schlesischen Stadt Glogau geborenen Schriftstellers Arnold Zweig. Ziel der Veröffentlichung ist es, des ein wenig in Vergessenheit geratenen Autors fünfzig Jahre nach dem Tod zu gedenken und seinen umfangreichen...
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