European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2009

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• A Companion to Ælfric

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  • Editors Hugh Magennis; Mary Swan
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  • This collection provides a new, authoritative and challenging study of the life and works of Ælfric of Eynsham, the most important vernacular religious writer in the history of Anglo-Saxon England.

• Conversos and Moriscos in Late Medieval Spain and Beyond

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  • Editor Kevin Ingram
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  • Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity (mostly under duress) in late medieval Spain. Converso and Moriscos Studies examines the manifold cultural implications of these mass convertions.

• Creating Shapes in Civil and Naval Architecture

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  • Editors Horst Nowacki; Wolfgang Lefèvre
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  • The design, construction and fabrication of complex two- and three-dimensional shapes in civil and naval architecture have always been a particularly demanding part of the art of engineering. This volume presents a comparative knowledge history in these two distinct branches of construction engineering.

• Cultural History of Early Modern European Streets

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  • Editors Riitta Laitinen; Thomas Cohen
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  • Six essays explore the evolving cultural and material life of the early modern European street, a contested place of shaded meanings where public met private space, and state and society vied for control of urban form.

• Cultural Tourism in Latin America

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  • Cultural tourism has become an important source of revenue for Latin American countries, especially in the Andes and Meso-America. This book analyses its effects and the processes of cultural change it provokes in local societies.

• Culture and Power

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  • Author: J. Davies
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  • Challenging absolutist interpretations, this study uses the universities of Pisa and Siena to reveal the contradictions and the tensions as well as the innovations and the traditions which characterised the grand duchy of Tuscany and its cultural politics.

• Defenders and Critics of Franciscan Life

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  • Editors Michael Cusato; G. Geltner
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  • The essays in this volume present a fresh approach to the different and shifting ways that the Franciscan Order and its apostlolic activities were perceived - positively and negatively - by men and women in Europe in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.

• Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe

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  • Author: I. Keul
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  • Navigating along multiple narrative tracks and treating the religious history of an entire region in a polyfocal way, this book offers an insight into the intense dynamics of the overlapping political, ethnic, and denominational constellations in Reformation and post-Reformation Transylvania.

• Em nome de Deus: The Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India, 1497-1499

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  • Author: G.J. Ames
  • Editor Glenn Ames
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  • Based on historiographical changes over the last century, this new edited edition of the Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama to India (1497-1499) provides the first English translation of this important expedition in more than a century.

• The Empire of Cnut the Great

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  • Author: T. Bolton
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  • Drawing on a wide range of types of evidence this book offers a fresh impression of the ‘empire’ built by King Cnut (1016–1035) in England and Scandinavia, and offers insights into contemporary developments in the conceptions of this new dominion.

• European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750

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  • Editors Giorgio Strano; Stephen Johnston; Mara Miniati; Alison D. Morrison-Low
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  • These selected studies on sixteenth and eighteenth centuries European collections of scientific instruments, which were part of the princely ‘wunderkammern’, delineate an up-to-date-panorama about the formation of the most important museums of the history of science.

• Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain until Insulin

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  • Author: E.L. Furdell
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  • Using unpublished and published sources, this book examines the history of diabetes in Britain from the perspective of healer and sufferer alike, focusing on medieval treatments, Renaissance-era diabetology, and the centuries-long debate among specialists over the site and cure of the disease.

• Has Latin America Always Been Unequal?

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  • Author: E.H.P. Frankema
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  • Employing comparative and quantitative historical methods Frankema explores long run trends of asset and income distribution in Latin America, arguing that there is little reason to regard the yawning gap between rich and poor as the persistent result of a colonial heritage.

• Herod and Augustus

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  • Editors David Jacobson; Nikos Kokkinos
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  • Nineteen studies illuminating Herod's role in the Augustan client network and his remarkable achievements, as expressed in his extensive building programme. Josephus' record is examined here in the light of the available documentary and archaeological evidence.

• Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf

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  • Author: S. Gwara
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  • In exploring the identities of foreign fighters seeking glory abroad, this revisionist book challenges the traditional view of Beowulf as a "hero." Beowulf emphasizes the obligations attending excellence and the temptation of power, both personal and civic.

• History and Folklore in a Medieval Jewish Chronicle

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  • Author: R. Bonfil
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  • In this book Robert Bonfil provides a detailed historical introduction and new English translation of the family chronicle of Ahima'az, one of the most important sources of medieval Jewish life in Western Europe composed in Capua, Italy in 1054.

• How India Clothed the World

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  • Editors Giorgio Riello; Tirthankar Roy
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  • Drawing on new research on textile trade and production in the regions that depended on the Indian Ocean, the book contributes to a new understanding of the role that Indian cloth played in the making of the modern world economy.

• Humanism in an Age of Science

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  • Author: D.K.W. Van Miert
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  • Drawing on letters, orations and disputations, this book argues that during the seventeenth century, the Amsterdam Athenaeum, despite the revolutionary debates of the time, and despite the intellectual liberalism characteristic of Amsterdam, remained traditional in its teaching.

• The Idea of Creativity

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  • Editors Karen Bardsley; Denis Dutton; Michael Krausz
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  • Seventeen philosophical thinkers ask: What is creativity? What are the criteria of creativity? Should we assign logical priority to creative persons, processes, or products? How do various forms of creativity relate to different domains of human activity?

• The Image of Edessa

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  • Author: M. Guscin
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  • This book provides critical editions with previously unpublished versions of all related texts, translations of all texts into English and a detailed analysis of the origins, known history, possible fate and exact nature of the Image of Edessa.