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Knowledge, Discipline and Power in the Middle Ages
BRILL 2011; US$ 151.00This collection of essays is based on a conference in honour of David Luscombe held at the University of Sheffield in September 2006 under the title Knowledge, Discipline and Power in the Middle Ages."" The 14 contributions to this Festschrift, by leading scholars in the field, show the strength and variety of recent work on the intellectual... more...
Civilization
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableDAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the dazzling civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing; in the Near East, the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. By contrast, England would have... more...
Satisfaction Not Guaranteed
NYU Press 2012; US$ 35.00In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, modern urban, industrial, affluent societies have made great strides towards fixing some of the problems that plagued other societies for centuries: food shortages are nearly eliminated, infant and maternal mortality has fallen dramatically, birth control is both readily available and effective, education... more...
(Re-)Writing the Radical
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00The essays in this volume discuss the overlap between philosophical, aesthetic, and political concerns in the 1790s either in the work of individuals or in the transfer of cultural materials across national borders, which tended to entail adaptation and transformation. What emerges is a clearer understanding of the ?fate? of the Enlightenment, its... more...
The Future of Nostalgia
Basic Books 2008; US$ 22.00What happens to Old World memories in a New World order? Svetlana Boym opens up a new avenue of inquiry: the study of nostalgia. more...
Disgraceful Archaeology
The History Press 2012; US$ 18.94The book that all archaeology buffs have secretly been yearning for! This unique blend of text, anecdote and cartoon reveals, and revels in, thse aspects of the past that have been ignored, glossed over or even suppressed - the bawdy, the scatological and the downright bizarre. Our ancestors were not always serious, downtrodden and fearful creatures.... more...
Big Ideas
Atlantic Books Ltd 2012; US$ 8.74"Big Ideas" explains where concepts like 'the long tail', 'urban tribes', 'soft power' and 'metrosexual' came from, what they mean, and what their critics say about them. It includes explanations of key terms such as: Maturialism: the name given to the new trend among middle-aged people of spending their money on expensive 'youth' gadgets and services,... more...
Wörterbuch zu Goethes West-östlichem Divan
De Gruyter 1987; US$ 307.00?With its differentiated description of the vocabulary of the individual work, the Divan dictionary by Christa Dill is a lexicographic masterpiece, which cannot be praised highly enough. The dictionary is based on the annotated edition of the Divan by Hans Albert Maier, which was published in 1965.?Prof. Dr. Kurt Gärtner more...
Quellenverzeichnis
De Gruyter 1996; US$ 133.00Thesaurus Proverbiorum Medii Aevi: Lexikon Der Sprichworter Des Romanisch-Germanischen Mittelalters more...
Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 99.00Essays on the texts produced at Barking Abbey - one of the most important centres for writings in the Middle Ages. more...









