Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France, Paperback - Natalie Zemon Davis

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Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus...

Contributor(s): Author: Natalie Zemon DavisThe clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse w...

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During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. The word 'politique',...

Investigating the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, and the members of the Tudor gentry family who owned them, reveals an unex...

This book provides a thematic survey of English foreign policy in the sixteenth century, focusing on the influence of the concept of honour, securi...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Noam AndrewsIllustration(s): 70 figuresNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 242 x 29Cover...

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This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices withi...

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The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information acr...

The surprising origins and people behind the world's most influential magical tales: the people who told and re-shaped them, the landscapes that fo...

Reforms of Christian Life presents a new narrative of the role of the Barnabites and Angelics, the Ursulines and the Somascans within sixteenth-cen...

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A panoramic reinterpretation of global history, this title traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twent...

Stripping the Veil explores the daily existence, ritual practices, and individual actions of nuns in surviving convents over time against the backd...

Did the Reformers lack a vision for missions? In Sixteenth-Century Mission, a diverse cast of contributors explores the wide-reaching practice and ...

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In the sixteenth century, the Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahag n and a team of indigenous grammarians, scribes, and painters completed decades ...

Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles America's settler colonialism's "creation myth" August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619,...

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Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment...

As the UK leaves the EU and as the multilateral order is increasingly under stress, bilateral security links are more important than ever. Rivals i...

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Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play - from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself - this volume offers new i...

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Visions of medieval castles in Fourteenth and fifteenth - century illuminations produced in France - Sabina Madgearu

The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity ...

Reducere. Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appear...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Bridget AlsdorfIllustration(s): 140 color + 17 b/w illus.Number of pages: 296Publication date: 2022...

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Taking in a wide range of film, television, and literature, this volume explores 21st century horror and its monsters from an intersectional perspe...

This ground-breaking study is the first time the contents of the RAF casualty files have been the subject of a book.Illustrations: 16 colour & 84 b...

A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in...

Publisher: Grey House in the WoodsAuthor(s): Graeme K TalboysNumber of pages: 314Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 199 x 23Cover type: Paperb...

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Reducere. While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social ...