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Literary culture in early modern England, 1630 -1700 : angles of contingency
This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a wide a…
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- -
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- 9783110691375
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- ix, 282 p. ill;
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- -
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- 820.9355 LIT I
Islam in process historical and civilizational perspectives (yearbook of the …
The articles included in this Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam are focused on two perspectives: Some link the comparative analysis of Islam to ongoing debates on the Axial Age and its role in the formation of major civilizational complexes, while others are more concerned with the historical constellations and sources involved in the formation of Islam as a religion and a civilization. More t…
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- edition 23
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- 9783899424911
- Collation
- 322 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 306.697. ISL
Being modern : the cultural impact of science in the early twentieth century
In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties. Being Modern builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the end of the nineteenth century to approximately 1940. Addressing the breadth …
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- -
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- 9781787353930
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- xvii. ;ill. : 438 p.
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- -
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- 306.45. FRA b
Fighting nature : travelling menageries, animal acts and war shows
Fighting Nature is an insightful analysis of the historical legacy of 19th century colonialism, war, animal acquisition and transportation. This legacy of entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit other animal species is yet to be defeated. Throughout the 19th century animals were integrated into staged scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages to large-scale r…
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- -
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- 9781743325001
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- xi. ;ill. ;271 p.
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- -
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- 304.27. PET f
The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity : volume 3 The A…
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783745234
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- 482 p. : ill. ; 25.4 cm.
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- -
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- 841.109 ZIO t
The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity : volume 1 the m…
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the M…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783744350
- Collation
- 395 p. : ill. ; 25.4 cm.
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- -
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- 841.109 ZIO t
Cultural history in Europe : institutions - themes - perspectives
What is the current state of discussion in Cultural History? Which European institutions engage exclusively in Cultural History and which topics do they address? And how will Cultural History develop in the future? These and other questions are raised by European scholars in the discussion of Institutions, Themes and Perspectives of Cultural History in this volume. It provides a profound overvi…
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- -
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- 9783839417249
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- 259p.
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- -
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- 940.5 CUL r
The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity : volume 6 war a…
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the M…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783745418
- Collation
- 324 p. : ill. ; 25.4 cm.
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- -
- Call Number
- 841.109 ZIO t
Societies in transition in early Greece : an archaeological history
Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of Mycenaean civilization, through the "Dark Age," and up to the emergence of city-states in the Archaic period. This period saw the growth and decline of varied political systems and the development of networks that would …
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- -
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- 9780520380547
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- XV, 363 p.
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- -
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- 930.16 KNO s
From revolt to riches : culture and history of the Low Countries, 1500-1700
This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from both international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The period was one of extraordinary upheaval and change, as the combined impact of Renaissance, Reformation and Revolt resulted in the radically new conditions – political, economic and intellectual – of the Dutch Re…
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- -
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- 9781910634899
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- XII, 310 p.
- Series Title
- Global Dutch
- Call Number
- 949.202 HER f
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