Søkt på: ca ages
totalt 5 650 treff
A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment
A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving …
Pilgrimage and Pogrom
In the late Middle Ages, Europe saw the rise of one of its most virulent myths: that Jews abused the eucharistic bread as a form of anti-Christian blasphemy, causing it to bleed …
A Poetic Philosophy of Language
Connecting poetry and philosophy of language, Philip Mills bridges the continental and analytical divide by bringing together the writings of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. Through an …
The Search for the Perfect Language
The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, …
The Language of Flowers
The author traces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and …
Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction
O’Rourke argues that artistic representations played a pivotal role in shaping how people thought about the natural world during the Industrial Revolution. In the late eighteenth …
The Genius of their Age
A vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its guiding figures and rivals, Ibn Sina and Biruni. In The …
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550
Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittges The seeds of the swift and …
grow: The Art of Koyamori (English language)
Shopping Spaces and the Urban Landscape in Early Modern Amsterdam, 1550-1850
In this study, the appearance and location of shops in Amsterdam during the early modern period is linked to major changes in the urban economy, the size and socio-spatial …
Savage Skies, Emerald Hell
While the Marine Corps island-hopped across the Pacific from Guadalcanal to Saipan to Iwo Jima, the U.S. Army was locked in a grueling, multiyear fight for the jungle island of New …
