European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2009

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• Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: C.M. Richardson
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  • This book offers a new and interdisciplinary approach to the history of papal Rome, 1400-80. It argues that the College of Cardinals emerged as key agents of its renaissance because of the crises of the fifteenth century.

• Renaissance and Rebirth

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  • Author: B. Ogren
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  • Through the theme of metempsychosis as discussed by scholars in Renaissance Italy, this book addresses the problematic question of the roles of Jews who lived in Italy in the development of Renaissance culture in its Jewish and its Christian dimensions.

• Rethinking the History of Skepticism

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editor Henrik Lagerlund
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  • This book aims at beginning the rewriting of the history of skepticism by highlightening the medieval sources of the modern skeptical discussions. It shows through seven newly written essays how epistemological and external-world skepticism was developed and discussed particularly in the fourteenth century up to sixteenth century Paris.

• Ritual Memory

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  • Author: H.G.E. Rose
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  • Ritual Memory gives an analysis of the transforming functioning of liturgy in the transmission of extra-canonical (apocryphal) traditions, and offers a survey of medieval assessments of the concept ‘apocryphal’.

• The Road to Rocroi

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  • Author: F. González De León
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  • Combining approaches and insights from cultural, social and military history this study traces the evolution and decline of the Spanish officer corps and general staff during the Eighty Years War in connection with contemporary trends such as modernization and aristocratization.

• The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century

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  • Author: V. Spinei
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  • The present volume deals with the course and effects of migrations in the east and south- east of Europe during the period between the tenth and the thirteenth century. The author’s special focus is on Romanian communities and on nomadic tribes that came from the steppes and penetrated into the area north of the Danube Delta.

• Roots of Theological Anti-Semitism (paperback)

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  • Author: A. Gerdmar
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  • Exploring the link between German biblical interpretation and anti-Semitism, this book is a fresh, comprehensive study of leading German exegetes, concluding that although Nazism brought anti-Semitic exegesis to a head, age-old thought structures provided powerful legitimation for oppression.