Søkt på: history of paris
totalt 28 treff
AlUla: Wonder of Arabia
AlUla: Wonder of Arabia (Arabic edition)
A Confederate in Paris
Paris and Her Cathedrals
Over the years, R. Howard Bloch has become renowned for the insider tours of Paris that he gives to students abroad. Long sought after by travellers and history buffs for his …
Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or similar acts in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners recounted their own …
Balzac's Paris
In Balzac's vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within …
St Catharine's College
This new official history of St Catharine’s College has been published in celebration of its 550th anniversary on the Feast of St Catharine, 25 November 2023. How did the College …
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
An entertaining and openhearted tale of a na f eventually getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel society - at least a little. When Simon Kuper left …
Homer, The Odyssey Map
One side of this beautifully illustrated map depicts the Aegean Sea and the surrounding areas where most of the places mentioned in Homer's epic poem can confidently be located. …
Paris and the River Seine
The intertwined histories of Paris and of the River Seine are interesting but complicated. It is the Seine, however with all its ports, bridges, boats, commerce, monuments, and …