This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2005-09-08

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Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2002-07-18

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Neither given nor granted, democracy requires conflict, often violent confrontations, and challenges to the established political order. In Europe, Geoff Eley convincingly shows, democracy did not evolve orgainically out of a natural consensus, the achievement of...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2002-04-11

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In this fascinating new book, Malcolm Vale sets out to recapture the splendour of the court culture of western Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Exploring the century or so between the death of St Louis and the rise of Burgundian power in the Low...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2001-12-20

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Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2001-02-08

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In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year which passed without either war or some open demonstration of hostility between the many sovereign powers which governed Europe. States and peoples lived under the shadow of war, were...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-11-23

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Johann Heinrich Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Heborn, was a man of many parts. A deputy to the famous Synod of Dort and greatest encyclopaedist of his age, he was also a pioneer of Calvinist millenarianism and a devoted student...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 2000-03-09

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Roaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlers, and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order, hard work, and racial purity. They were branded as "asocials,"...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2000-01-13

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This book takes a fresh look at the cultural role of medicine among learned people around 1300. It was at this time that learned medicine came to be fully incorporated into the academic system and began to win greater social acceptance. Joseph Ziegler argues that...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-07-09

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Nell'opinione di Croce, "Teoria e storia della storiografia" non era «una nuova parte sistematica» della "Filosofia dello spirito", ma piuttosto un approfondimento della teoria della storiografia già delineata in opere passate. Il nuovo libro costituiva, insomma,...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-07-23

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Alla base della Storia d’Europa nel secolo decimonono sta l'analisi di Benedetto Croce delle ragioni e cause che negli anni Venti e Trenta del Novecento portarono alla crisi dei valori di libertà. Nel XIX Secolo un lungo processo aveva visto il progressivo consolidarsi...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-07-23

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