Italien

An essential guide to the strange, sometimes sinister culture of contemporary Italy. In 1999 Tobias Jones travelled to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described …

In Bounded Wilderness, Kathryn Jasper focuses on the innovations undertaken at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in central Italy during the eleventh century by its prior, Peter …

This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single - nations, Donatella della Porta …

This rich, wide-ranging book explores Italy's national film style by relating it closely to politics and to the historicist thought of Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci. Here is a new …

Römische Geschichte: Mommsens berühmtestes Werk erschien von 1854 bis 1856 in drei Bänden und schilderte die Geschichte Roms bis zum Ende der römischen Republik und der Herrschaft …

Il est indeniable que Thomas d''Aquin fit preuve d''une grande originalite metaphysique parmi ses contemporains. Or, ses avancees concernant la signification de l''esse ou …

Machiavelli entwirft die Figur des modernen Herrschers im Spannungsverhaltnis von Macht und Schein. Nichts sein - alles scheinen wird zur Bedingung fur Erwerb und Erhalt von Macht. …

'Atmospheric, clever, witty and amusing. If I were only allowed to read one crime series again it would be that of Donna Leon.' The TimesA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR …

This study explores how the themes of the disperata genre - including hopelessness, death, suicide, doomed love, collective trauma, and damnations - are creatively adopted by …

Le novita introdotte nell'Europa del Settecento dal romanzo sono spesso veicolate in Italia dal teatro: non solo vengono trasposte sulle scene le vicende di Pamela o di Marianna, …