Now a major motion picture starring Guy Pearce, The Last Vermeer* is a revelatory biography of the world’s most famous forgerーa talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrushーand a deliciously detail……続きを見る
“[A] work of great synthesis. . . . [It] argues that the ‘makers of Western Islam’ have not only enriched Islam, but also humanity in general. This book is an important and timely contribution.”ーDr……続きを見る
Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims (d. 882) is a crucial figure for all those interested in early medieval European history in general, and Carolingian history in particular. For forty years he was an adv……続きを見る
La mort de Charles II d'Espagne en 1700 et la guerre de Succession d'Espagne qui s'ensuit bouleversent toute l'Europe dont la carte en ressort transformée en 1714. Les monarchies de France et d'Espa……続きを見る
This new edition of The Essential Guide to Western Civilization provides a succinct and engaging overview of European history for students.
With wide chronological coverage, from early humans and th……続きを見る
著者:Bruce Thomas Boehrer
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2015年11月02日
After completing his conquest of the Persian empire, Alexander the Great maneuvered his army across the Hindu Kush and into India. During his two years there, he traveled from dry frigid mountains t……続きを見る
著者:Peggy K. Liss
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Queen Isabel of Castile is perhaps best known for her patronage of Christopher Columbus and for the religious zeal that led to the Spanish Inquisition, the waging of holy war, and the expulsion of J……続きを見る
著者:Simon Serfaty
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年05月23日
The commencement of war in Iraq in 2003 was met with a variety of reactions around the globe. In Architects of Delusion, Simon Serfaty presents a historical analysis of how and why the decision to w……続きを見る
著者:Santiago Castellanos
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2020年11月13日
The structures of the late ancient Visigothic kingdom of Iberia were rooted in those of Roman Hispania, Santiago Castellanos argues, but Catholic bishops subsequently produced a narrative of process……続きを見る
著者:Joseph A. Dane
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年08月22日
"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . .……続きを見る
著者:Martha G. Newman
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2020年10月30日
Around the year 1200, the Cistercian Engelhard of Langheim dedicated a collection of monastic stories to a community of religious women. Martha G. Newman explores how this largely unedited collectio……続きを見る
著者:Joseph A. Dane
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2011年06月06日
The new history of the book has constituted a vibrant academic field in recent years, and theories of print culture have moved to the center of much scholarly discourse. One might think typography w……続きを見る
There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its……続きを見る
著者:Jeffrey Freedman
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2012年06月28日
Though the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study themーleast of all in th……続きを見る
著者:Richard W. Unger
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2013年05月22日
The beer of todayーbrewed from malted grain and hops, manufactured by large and often multinational corporations, frequently associated with young adults, sports, and drunkennessーis largely the res……続きを見る
La forme des agglomérations, telle qu'elle s'inscrit dans les plans cadastraux, est susceptible de documenter des processus historiques impossibles à connaître par d'autres sources et d'apporter un ……続きを見る
Après une enfance passée au sein de la cour raffinée des marquis de Mantoue, Claire de Gonzague épouse en 1481 le comte Gilbert de Bourbon-Montpensier, cousin du roi Charles viii. Elle joue un rôle ……続きを見る
著者:Claudia Hiepel
出版社: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion
発売日: 2017年06月29日
Depuis la seconde guerre mondiale, l’histoire des relations franco-allemandes est souvent personnifiée. Dans ce contexte, Willy Brandt et Georges Pompidou restent souvent dans l’ombre de couples plu……続きを見る
En 1937, une Espagne coupée en deux subissait les effets d'un conflit qui s'annonçait long et cruel. De nombreux enfants connurent la séparation d'avec leurs familles, ainsi que la mort d'êtres aimé……続きを見る
出版社: Presses universitaires de Rennes
発売日: 2018年07月10日
Cet ouvrage porte sur les rapports qu'entretiennent, du xve au xixe siècle, l'armée, institution régalienne qui voit ses effectifs croître et être pérennisés, et la religion, ici principalement envi……続きを見る
著者:Ed Simon
出版社: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
発売日: 2025年08月12日
No Western religious concept has been as socially, culturally, economically, and politically significant as that of the apocalypse. Neither heaven and hell, nor sin and salvation, nor even God and t……続きを見る
We need history because we need rest: a pause to rest our consciousness, so that the possibility of a consciousness may remain – as the seat not only of thought, but of practical reason, affording f……続きを見る
著者:Marine Guéguin
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2025年06月30日
This book investigates the framing of the terrorist threat in France from 2015 to 2020 as an ‘exceptional’ challenge which requires a ‘special’ public security response.
The book examines how French……続きを見る
著者:Edhem Eldem
出版社: Collège de France
発売日: 2019年06月20日
Durant le long xixe siècle, face à un Occident de plus en plus puissant et arrogant, l’Empire ottoman s’est modernisé dans le but avoué de gérer une situation de plus en plus précaire. L’histoire de……続きを見る
Highly entertaining, well researched and original in thought. It has the makings of a
classic to be placed alongside Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of
Gerard," and David Johnson's "The Proud C……続きを見る
Concepută ca o lucrare de referință despre emisiunile Departamentului românesc al postului de Radio Europa Liberă din timpul Războiului Rece, Antologia Radio Europa Liberă cuprinde o selecție amplă ……続きを見る
„Scrisă în anii 1949-1950, când se vorbea adesea despre posibilitatea începerii celui de-Al Treilea Război Mondial, și publicată la Londra la sfârșitul anului 1986, când debutaseră politicile ……続きを見る
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 -……続きを見る