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Since time immemorial Europe had been dominated by nobles and nobilities. In the eighteenth century their power seemed better entrenched than ever. But in 1790 the French revolutionaries made a determined attempt to abolish nobility entirely. 'Aristocracy' became the...
In 1572, towns in the province of Holland, led by William of Orange, rebelled against the government of the Habsburg Netherlands. The story of the Dutch Revolt is usually told in terms of fractious provinces that frustrated Orange's efforts to formulate a coherent...
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ONTHE LAST DAYS OFTHE THIRD REICH'Recounts, in harrowing detail and with formidable skill, the brutal death-throes of Hitler's Reich at the hands of the rampaging Red Army' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'An irresistibly compelling narrative, of...
Although the history of the book is a booming area of research, the journeymen who printed books in the sixteenth century have remained shadowy figures because they were not thought to have left any significant traces in the archives. Clive Griffin, however, uses...
This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to...
'Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done' Sunday Times'Will become the standard English work of Venetian history' Financial Times___________________Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius...
Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief...
Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve orgainically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of...
In this fascinating new book, Malcolm Vale sets out to recapture the splendour of the court culture of western Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Exploring the century or so between the death of St Louis and the rise of Burgundian power in the Low...
In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year which passed without either war or some open demonstration of hostility between the many sovereign powers which governed Europe. States and peoples lived under the shadow of war, were...
Johann Heinrich Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Heborn, was a man of many parts. A deputy to the famous Synod of Dort and greatest encyclopaedist of his age, he was also a pioneer of Calvinist millenarianism and a devoted student...
Roaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlers, and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order, hard work, and racial purity. They were branded as "asocials,"...
This book takes a fresh look at the cultural role of medicine among learned people around 1300. It was at this time that learned medicine came to be fully incorporated into the academic system and began to win greater social acceptance. Joseph Ziegler argues that...
Over two decades' research puts Lyn Macdonald among the greatest popular chroniclers of the First World War. In 1915: The Death of Innocence, from the poignant memories of participants, she has once again created an unforgettable slice of military history. By the end of...
Shakespeare stellt in seinen Dramen diverse politische Regime mit ihren jeweiligen Vorzügen und Defiziten dar. Er präsentiert dabei die Monarchie als eine der geeignetsten Staatsformen, sieht aber durchaus auch deren Schwierigkeiten. So entwickelt er die Idee, die...
Mehr als drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer und der deutschen Einheit lebt die DDR weiter – nicht nur in der (lebendigen) Erinnerung von Zeitzeug:innen und Erb:innen, sondern auch in vielfältigen kulturhistorischen, künstlerischen, literarischen und...
Il 20 giugno 1953, sotto la presidenza del radicalsocialista francese Yvon Delbos, venne fondato il gruppo transnazionale dei Libéraux et apparentés (Lib) comprendente inizialmente 11 membri, per la maggioranza francesi. Linea guida di questa ricerca, basata...
Die Studie befasst sich mit der Strafrechts- und Kriminalitätsgeschichte Kiels im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Als Quelle gibt das Varbuch Aufschluss über vor Gericht verhandelte Fälle von Kapitalverbrechen. Aus dem Vergleich normgebender Rechtsquellen mit der...
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