wired - History 40

First published in 1930. 'The book is full of splendour and strange scenes' Nation The Relations of Fernão Guerreiro, from which the three narratives in this volume have been taken, constitute a com……続きを見る

What happens in Spain, among the euro zone's largest economies, matters. Its high unemployment (over 26%), burgeoning public debt, and banking crisis will be formative for the zone's future. In Spai……続きを見る

The Trial of Tempel Anneke examines documents from an early modern European witchcraft trial with the pedagogical goal of allowing students to interact directly with primary sources. A brief histori……続きを見る

Elector Palatinate Frederick V - the Winter King - would be an insignificant figure in the history of Europe were it not for the tremendous conflagration that he helped to ignite. Frederick’s confli……続きを見る

In this fascinating book, Ann Woodall investigates and compares the work and thought of William Booth and Karl Marx, who both arrived in London in 1849. She draws comparisons between their responses……続きを見る

Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250-1300 investigates the gender system at work in medieval Perpignan. Using a series of notarial registers - unique as surviving records for the socia……続きを見る

Arms and the State is a history of Britain's first and foremost modern armaments company, the Armstrong Whitworth Company, from its origins in 1854 to 1914. It focuses on the role of Sir William G. ……続きを見る

Constantine of Rhodes's tenth-century poem is an account of public monuments in Constantinople and of the Church of the Holy Apostles. In the opening section of the work, Constantine describes colum……続きを見る

Reflecting the focus but also range of their honorand's work in medieval canon law in the era before Gratian, the essays in this volume explore the creation and transmission of canonical texts and t……続きを見る

The figure of Prince William of Orange (1572-84) dominates the political landscape of the sixteenth century Netherlands, and in many ways personifies the Dutch revolt against Spanish hegemony. Yet d……続きを見る

The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England before their abolition and replacement by the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. Unlike th……続きを見る

"Caduta e Declino di praticamente tutti" è una satira raffinata ed esilarante sui più grandi personaggi della storia dell'umanità. Dai faraoni ad Alessandro Magno, da Lucrezia Borgia agli zar russi,……続きを見る

America's schizoaffective writer looks at the amazing and tragic lives and their families that parallel each other in history. The examination is of King Tut and JFK. 続きを見る

I WAS going home from the village, and it was an autumn evening, just after sunset, when every crop was cut and housed in our level country, and when the fields of stubble and browned grass had noth……続きを見る

Das Vergessen ist besser als sein Ruf. Das Standardwerk über den Nutzen und Nachteil des Vergessens für das Leben Warum erinnern wir uns so schlecht an unsere Träume? Was passiert mit verdrängten Er……続きを見る

Sammler des verlorenen Schatzes. Ein waghalsiger Forscher begibt sich auf eine der abenteuerlichsten Expeditionen, die es je gab: Alfred Russel Wallace und seine Forschungsreise ins Amazonasgebiet. ……続きを見る

Atom enthüllt die schmutzigen Geheimnisse der Atomindustrie und die unlösbare Verbindung zwischen "friedlicher" und militärischer Nutzung der Kernenergie. Stephanie Cooke präsentiert eine umfassende……続きを見る

In the early 1990's Kristiane Backer was one of the very first presenters of MTV Europe. For some years she lived and breathed the international music scene, quickly gaining a cult following amongst……続きを見る

With a documented history stretching back a thousand years, Dunster Castle in Somerset is one of Britain's oldest and most intriguing great buildings, its turrets evoking centuries of warfare, dark ……続きを見る

The situation of man on the globe he inhabits, and over which he has obtained the control, is in many respects exceedingly remarkable. Compared with its other denizens, he seems, if we regard only h……続きを見る

Einen Schatzfund machen - allein die Vorstellung, Gold, Silber oder andere wertvolle Dinge aus alter Zeit zu entdecken, ist von großer Faszination. Im vorliegenden Buch beschäftigt sich der bekannte……続きを見る

Award-winning religion journalists describe a recently rediscovered medieval prayer tool that provides fresh inspiration and daily prayers for contemporary Christians. All people of faith struggle a……続きを見る

Wissenschaftliche Verlage haben seit dem letzten Drittel des 19. Jahrhunderts als äußerst produktions- und umsatzstarke Unternehmen eine herausragende Rolle für den deutschen Buchmarkt gespielt. Den……続きを見る

The amazing marriage of Katherine of Valois, widow of Henry V, with Owen Tudor, possibly accounts for much that was abnormal in the character of their royal descendants of the redoubted House of Tud……続きを見る

Der größte Kunstgeschichte-Thriller des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Der Krieg ist vorbei, doch wer rettet die Kunstschätze Europas vor der Vernichtung? Die Alliierten hatten gewonnen, Hitler war tot, doch s……続きを見る

Captain Misson was born in Provence, of an ancient family. His father was master of a plentiful fortune; but having a great number of children, our rover had but little hopes of other fortune than w……続きを見る

Scottish theologian, educator, astronomer and popularizer of science, Thomas Dick (1774-1857) promoted a Christianized form of science to inhibit secularization, to win converts to Christianity, and……続きを見る

Francis Willughby's Book of Games, published here for the first time, is a remarkable work and an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in early modern social history. Dating from the 1660……続きを見る

As Superintendent of Fife, John Winram played a pivotal role in the reform of the Scottish Church. Charting his career within St Andrews priory from canon to subprior, Linda Dunbar examines the ambi……続きを見る

Scholarly traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have led us to assume that national traditions were defining in a way that they may not have been during the Renaissance, when Latin re……続きを見る