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This fourth edition of Sir John Hale’s classic history of England and the Italian Renaissance includes a detailed introduction by Edward Chaney surveying scholarly developments since the book was first published. Fourth edition of Sir John Hale’s cla…

The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language – a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years. Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses the…

This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

During the years of World War II many people despite the jeopardy to their own lives rescued thousands of humiliated and persecuted citizen of their country, Jews doomed by Nazi regime only on account of their ethnic descent. Those people are called …

[Previously published as ‘Went The Day Well’]A sweeping political, social, military and cultural overview of the United Kingdom on the eve, and then the day, of the greatest battle fought by British arms.Midnight, Sunday, 17 June 1815. There was no t…

Winner of the 2006 John D. Criticos Prize This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. This volume brings Byzantium – often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world – to the for…

The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle. Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disr…

This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their various achievements in war, culture and civilization.

Nineteenth-Century Europe offers a much-needed concise and fresh look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War. It encompasses all major themes of the period, from the rising nationalism of the early nineteen…

Примечание: История папства. Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of the popes, from the foundation of the See of Rome to the present time. Vol. 1».

Примечание: История папства. Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of the Popes : Vol. II : from the foundation of the See of Rome, to the present time / by Archibald Bower».

Примечание: История папства. Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of the Popes : Vol. 5 : from the foundation of the See of Rome to the present time / by Archibald Bower».

Примечание: История папства. Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of the popes, from the foundation of the See of Rome to the present time. Vol. 6».

Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vaughan's detailed examination of medical discourse of the period reveals its shifting and fragmented nature…