European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2009

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• Medieval Greek Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics

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  • Editors Charles Barber; David Jenkins
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  • The papers gathered in this volume offer precise investigations of the historical and philosophical grounds for the first medieval commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics. These commentaries were produced by Byzantine philosophers in twelfth-century Constantinople.

• Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World

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  • Editor Wim Klooster
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  • The twelve essays explore three connected aspects of European expansion in the period between 1500 and 1900 - migration, trade, and slavery - with some attention given to present-day echoes from that era.

• The Multiple Meaning of Scripture

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  • Editor Ineke Spijker
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  • The articles in this volume explore early-Christian and medieval biblical exegesis as the site of discourse on theological, philosophical and political issues and of the hermeneutics investigating the relation between the surface and the deeper meaning of the text.

• Myth in History, History in Myth

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  • Editors Laura Cruz; Willem Frijhoff
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  • Based on the proceedings of a 2005 conference, this volume re-examines the role of Dutch social and patriotic myths. Using recent methodological approaches, the essays assess how the Dutch perceived their myths and how they were treated by previous historians.

• The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance

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  • Editors Cynthia Kosso; Anne Scott
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  • Examining historical water use and ideology diachronically and cross regionally, this book reveals how religion, politics, science and social relationships transformed and were transformed by the manipulation of, uses of, and disputes over water in daily life, ceremonies, and literature.

• Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe

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  • Editors Scott Wells; Katherine Smith
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  • Encompassing the work of historians, art-historians, and literary scholars, these essays explore how interrelated processes of communal inclusion and exclusion - articulated through institutions, discourses, performances, and artefacts - shaped the construction of individual and collective identities in medieval Europe.

• Noble Lord, Good Shepherd

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  • Author: A. Trumbore Jones
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  • This book examines the range of bishops’ activities in tenth- and eleventh-century southwest France, as they ruled their cathedrals, interacted with lay powers, patronized religious communities, and wrestled with the complex nature of their office.

• Notions of Nationhood in Bengal: Perspectives on Samaj, c. 1867-1905

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  • Author: S. Gupta
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  • This book opens fresh ways of rethinking colonial nationalisms, qualifying derivative, political and modernist paradigms. Introducing the category of samaj (cultural entity), it shows how indigenous socio-cultural origins were reconfigured in modern Bengali-Indian nationhood to conceptualise unities and mediate fragmentation.

• Ordering Chaos

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  • Author: Brigitte Balint
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  • This book investigates five innovative twelfth-century prosimetrical texts inspired by Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, the difficulties that arose when these writers attempted to recapture Boethian certainty, and the survival of aspects of this literary mode in later Latin and vernacular literature.

• Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706)

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  • Author: A.C. Neele
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  • This book is a first monograph on the life and work of Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706). Expanding the new interest in Protestant scholasticism this book portrays Mastricht as a post-Reformation reformed theologian, philosopher and Christian Hebraist. The result provides a fresh appraisal, in particular, on the relationship of biblical exegesis, doctrine, polemic, and praxis.

• Philosophical Debates at Paris in the Early Fourteenth Century

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  • Editors Stephen Brown; Thomas Dewender; Theo Kobusch
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  • Focusing on Meister Eckhart, John Duns Scotus, Hervaeus Natalis, Durandus of St.-Pourçain, Walter Burley and Petrus Aureoli, this volume investigates the nature of philosophical and theological issues and arguments at the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century.

• The Place of the Mediterranean in Modern Israeli Identity (paperback)

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  • Author: A. Nocke
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  • This book offers new perspectives on Israel’s evolving Mediterranean identity, which centers around the longing to find a "natural" place in the region. It explores Mediterraneanism as reflected in popular music, literature, architecture, and daily life, and analyzes ways in which the notion comprises cultural identity and polical realities.

• Polluting the Sacred

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  • Author: D.E. Thiery
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  • Drawing on spiritual and legal sources, this book provides a novel perspective on how late medieval Christianity problematized parishioners' use of violence and how parishioners tried to reconcile the demands of their faith with cultural norms that honored violent conduct.

• Poverty’s Proprietors: Ownership and Mortal Sin at the Origins of the Observant Movement

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  • Author: J.D. Mixson
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  • This study explores the origins of Observant reform in the monasteries and canonries of the southern Empire. Through close readings of unpublished texts, it offers fresh perspectives on the history of religious community, reform, and the church in the fifteenth century.

• Pre-Modern European Economy

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  • Author: P. Malanima
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  • The book provides an overall reconstruction of the European economy, in the global context, from the High Middle Ages until the beginning of Modern Growth in the 19th century.

• Preaching, Sermon and Cultural Change in the Long Eighteenth Century

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  • Editor Joris Eijnatten
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  • This study offers a broad outline of the history of the eighteenth-century sermon. Thematically, it provides an overview of the research over the past three decades as well as suggesting new approaches to the history of preaching.

• Property, Piracy and Punishment: Hugo Grotius on War and Booty in De iure praedae

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  • Editor Hans Blom
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  • Sixteen essays discuss De iure praedae – Hugo Grotius’s 1604-1605 commentary on booty –, its sources, circumstances and consequences, and explore how Grotius the humanist, the theologian, the jurist and the politician concur in this his first exercise in natural law and rights.

• Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century

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  • 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

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  • 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.