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Cities Of Strangers - Making Lives In Medieval Europe

by Miri (Queen Mary University Of London) Rubin

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 Examining how 'strangers' - settling newcomers as well as settled ethnic and religious minorities - were treated in urban communities between 1000 and 1500, Cities of Strangers explores pathways to citizenship and arrangements for those unlikely to become citizens during a period of formative urban growth and its aftermath in medieval Europe.
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Explorations In Latin Literature: Volume 2, Elegy, Lyric And Other Topics

by Denis (Princeton University, New Jersey) Feeney

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 A collection of essays from one of the world's greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient epic, historiography, lyric, elegy, and drama, with a particular focus on ancient literary criticism, comparative religion, historicism and the technology of the ancient book. With a foreword by Stephen Hinds.
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Empires Of The Mind - The Colonial Past And The Politics Of The Present

by Robert (University Of Oxford) Gildea

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 Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea shows that how empires did not vanish after 1945 but were constantly reinvented as neo-colonialisms. He shows how postwar immigration from the former colonies provoked racism, segregation and exclusion in metropolitan Britain and France and how imperial nostalgia has bedevilled Britain's relations with Europe.
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Cities Of Strangers - Making Lives In Medieval Europe

by Miri Rubin

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Cities Of Strangers - Making Lives In Medieval Europe

by Miri Rubin

~~30,48€~~ 24,38€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Examining how 'strangers' - settling newcomers as well as settled ethnic and religious minorities - were treated in urban communities between 1000 and 1500, Cities of Strangers explores pathways to citizenship and arrangements for those unlikely to become citizens during a period of formative urban growth and its aftermath in medieval Europe.
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Cities Of Strangers - Making Lives In Medieval Europe

by Miri (Queen Mary University Of London) Rubin

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 Examining how 'strangers' - settling newcomers as well as settled ethnic and religious minorities - were treated in urban communities between 1000 and 1500, Cities of Strangers explores pathways to citizenship and arrangements for those unlikely to become citizens during a period of formative urban growth and its aftermath in medieval Europe.
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Empires Of The Mind - The Colonial Past And The Politics Of The Present

by Robert Gildea

~~22,53€~~ 18,02€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea shows that how empires did not vanish after 1945 but were constantly reinvented as neo-colonialisms. He shows how postwar immigration from the former colonies provoked racism, segregation and exclusion in metropolitan Britain and France and how imperial nostalgia has bedevilled Britain's relations with Europe.
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Empires Of The Mind - The Colonial Past And The Politics Of The Present

by Robert Gildea

~~22,53€~~ 18,02€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea shows that how empires did not vanish after 1945 but were constantly reinvented as neo-colonialisms. He shows how postwar immigration from the former colonies provoked racism, segregation and exclusion in metropolitan Britain and France and how imperial nostalgia has bedevilled Britain's relations with Europe.
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Empires Of The Mind - The Colonial Past And The Politics Of The Present

by Robert (University Of Oxford) Gildea

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 Prize-winning historian Robert Gildea shows that how empires did not vanish after 1945 but were constantly reinvented as neo-colonialisms. He shows how postwar immigration from the former colonies provoked racism, segregation and exclusion in metropolitan Britain and France and how imperial nostalgia has bedevilled Britain's relations with Europe.
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Pagans And Christians In Late Antique Rome - Conflict, Competition, And Coexistence In The Fourth Century

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 This book sheds new light on the religious and consequently social changes taking place in late antique Rome. The essays in this volume demonstrate that the fourth-century city was a more fluid, vibrant, and complex place than was previously thought.
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Poetry And Politics 1900â€“1960

by C. M. Bowra

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 Politics are not alien to poetry and in his Wiles Lectures Sir Maurice Bowra covered the main lines of European poetry during the first sixty years of the twentieth century in so far as it directly related to politics. He illuminates the three poetical forms with a political influence: the prophetic; the intimate and personal.
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The History Written On The Classical Greek Body

by Robin (University Of Cambridge) Osborne

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 Exposes the distortions systematically introduced by historians through relying on texts without looking at what was and was not written on the body. It shows that in classical Athens, on the basis of visual evidence, the categories advertised in texts do not match those which could be operated in life.
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Man As Churchman

by Norman Sykes

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 The Church historian is often required to be a student of dogma as much as of history. It is the complex relationships between history, Church history and theology that Dr Sykes examines, using as illustrations some of the vital issues arising from the revival of interest in Church history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Succeeding John Bull - America In Britain'S Place 1900-1975

by D. Cameron Watt

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 This book is based on the Wiles lectures for 1981 delivered at the Queen's University of Belfast in October 1981.
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War And Society In The Seventeenth Century

by George Clark

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 Sir George Clark discusses war as a factor for good and ill in European society in the seventeenth century. In particular, he shows how war helped to determine the emergence of modern Europe from a society geographically, politically and doctrinally confused.
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Man On His Past

by Herbert Butterfield

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 This book is an extended version of the Wiles lectures given at the Queen's University, Belfast, in 1954. It illustrates the rise, scope, methods and objectives of the history of historiography. The topics selected for discussion give a general outline of the modern historical movement from the mid-eighteenth century to the contribution of Lord Acton in the late nineteenth century.
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Domination And Conquest - The Experience Of Ireland, Scotland And Wales, 1100â€“1300

by R. R. (University College Of Wales, Aberystwyth) Davies

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 This book, a revised and extended version of Professor Davies's 1988 Wiles Lectures, explores the ways in which the kings and aristocracy of England sought to extend their domination over Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
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Four Studies Of War And Peace In This Century

by W. K. Hancock

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 Sir Keith Hancock makes a four-pronged reconnaissance of international relations and, consequently, the prospects of human survival. He begins by discussing total war and 'small wars' and considers the relevance of this discussion, particularly in its economic aspects, to 'the cold war' and its costs.
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Religion, Law And The Growth Of Constitutional Thought, 1150-1650

by Brian Tierney

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 To understand the growth of Western constitutional thought, we need to consider both ecclesiology and political theory, ideas about the Church as well as ideas about the state. In this book Professor Tierney traces the interplay between ecclesiastical and secular theories of government from the twelfth century to the seventeenth.
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Edward I And Criminal Law

by T. F. T. Plucknett

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 The main theme of Professor Plucknett's Wiles Lectures is the transition from the local legislation of Anglo-Saxon times to the beginnings of the English common law under feudalism, and especially under Edward I's direction. Professor Plucknett examines the early laws, which were mainly the attempts of perplexed men in a harsh age to fix a value on human life and property.
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Philosophers Of Peace And War - Kant, Clausewitz, Marx, Engles And Tolstoy

by W. B. Gallie

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 ntellectual eminence apart, what did Kant, Clausewitz, Marx and Engels, and Tolstoy have in common? Professor Gallic argues that they made contributions to 'international theory' â€" to the understanding of the character and causes of war and of the possibility of peace between nations â€" which were of unrivalled originality in their own times.
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The Politics Naval Of Supremacy

by R. Graham

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 Professor G. S. Graham sets broadly and clearly in perspective the limiting factors which permitted British predominance at sea in the nineteenth century. He introduces the British fleet in its European, Atlantic and Indian Ocean contexts and examines the local as well as the general conditions for its superiority.
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The Natural And The Supernatural In The Middle Ages

by Robert (University Of St Andrews, Scotland) Bartlett

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 An exploration of the way in which the world was categorized in the medieval period, concentrating on the division between the natural and the supernatural. This book discusses the mentalities of medieval writers and thinkers and raises the question of how to deal with beliefs we may not share.
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The Natural And The Supernatural In The Middle Ages

by Robert (University Of St Andrews, Scotland) Bartlett

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 An exploration of the way in which the world was categorized in the medieval period, concentrating on the division between the natural and the supernatural. This book discusses the mentalities of medieval writers and thinkers and raises the question of how to deal with beliefs we may not share.
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