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Italy in the Central Middle Ages
OUP Oxford 2004; US$ 37.99The eleventh to the early fourteenth centuries saw a great transformation in the political, cultural and economic life of the Italian peninsula, marked by the rise of the autonomous city-states in the north and centre, the expansion of international trade, and the creation of a wealthy southern kingdom which reached the peak of its power in this period,... more...
In the Society of Fascists
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00This work seeks to take a fresh look at the contentious question of the longevity and popularity of Mussolini's regime in Italy. In particular, it draws upon new research to challenge what has been the most influential paradigm over the last couple of decades, namely, the interpretation of Italian fascism as a consensual dictatorship. more...
Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00Italy faced a number of catastrophes in the long sixteenth century. This economic and demographic history follows the consequences of these catastrophes - the action of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine and Plague, all followed by Death. more...
Revisioning Italy
University of Minnesota Press 1997; US$ 79.50This volume covers a range of subjects drawn from Italy and abroad to study the historical and contemporary formations of Italian national identity. In doing so, the work illuminates Italy past and present as well as the local and global dimensions of national identity in general. more...
Quellen zu den deutsch-italienischen Beziehungen 1861 - 1963
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2007; US$ 77.14Hauptbeschreibung Am Anfang von rund 100 Jahren deutsch-italienischer Beziehungsgeschichte stand der Gleichklang der späten Nationalstaatsgründungen 1861 und 1871. In der Zeit des Dreibunds seit 1882 suchte Italien die politische Anlehnung an das deutsche Kaiserreich, um seine kolonialpolitischen Interessen in Afrika durchzusetzen, im Ersten Weltkrieg... more...
People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489554
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 63.00A new view of the Goths of Italy, challenging racist, nationalist assumptions about barbarian groups. more...
Fürstenspiegel des frühen und hohen Mittelalters
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 110.21Hauptbeschreibung Fürstenspiegel geben Anleitung und Rat für die Erziehung künftiger Herrscher. Dem heutigen Leser aber ermöglichen sie Einblicke in das ideale Herrscherbild der jeweiligen Zeit. Seit der Antike bekannt, sind die Fürstenspiegel des Mittelalters von einem christlichen Herrschaftsbild geprägt. Der Herausgeber versammelt in diesem Band... more...
Von Gott poetisch-musikalisch reden
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2009; US$ 88.16Hauptbeschreibung Nach einer grundsätzlichen Einführung in den Stand der Forschung werden ca. 30 geistliche Kantaten aus unterschiedlichen kompositorischen Stadien des Thomaskantors poetisch, theologisch und musikalisch analysiert. Jedem der fünf Kapitel (verborgener Gott, richtender Gott, fürsorgender Gott, dreieiniger Gott) geht eine eher grundsätzliche... more...
Dark Age Liguria
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013;Dark Age Liguria surveys the history of the Liguria region from c. 400 to c. 1050 AD, to provide a detailed case study of what happened here as Roman imperial rule ended. The book pulls together all the surviving evidence, written, archaeological, artistic and ecological, to propose that, in contrast with later periods, Ligurians looked north as much... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 24.00Provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. more...









