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Terra Incognita
Identifying gaps in knowledge is the first duty of any historian who sets out to understand the past. It is impossible fully to understand our forebears without some idea of what …
The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870
In August 1870, during a fair in the isolated French village of Hautefaye, a gruesome murder was committed in broad daylight that aroused the indignation of the entire country. A …
The Life of an Unknown
"My task is piecing together a puzzle...I hope to reconstitute the existence of a person whose memory has been abolished...I want to re-create him, to give him a second chance...to …
Women for Hire
Dispelling the lurid stereotypes portrayed in fiction, Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized …
Istorija tishiny ot epokhi Vozrozhdenija do nashikh dnej
Korben, istorik, stanovitsja v etoj knige nastojaschim poetom. Figaro Tishina — eto ne prosto otsutstvie zvukov. Ona zhivet vnutri nas, sostavljaja neotemlemuju chast nashego …
Village Bells
In the French canton of Brienne in November 1799, local authorities were scandalized when a crowd of girls broke through the doors of the church and rang the bells in order to mark …
Les filles de reve
A History of Virility
How has the meaning of manhood changed over time? A History of Virility proposes a series of answers to this question by describing a trajectory that begins with ancient …
Histoire du silence
La douceur de l'ombre
History of Silence
Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries. It …