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This volume addresses the changing relationships between women and armed forces from antiquity to the present: eight chapters review the existing literature, an extended picture essay visually documents women’s military work, and eight chapters illustrate more restricted topics.
€110.00$142.00
With reference to relevant sources in the major European languages, classical and modern, this study examines the rise of modern 'practical criticism' as part of a new paradigm of cultural processing during the 16th and 17th centuries, especially in Italy, France, the Dutch Republic and Germany.
€129.00$179.00
In European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 Friedrich Lenger offers the first truely European account of Europe’s major cities in a period crucial for the development of much of their present shape and infrastructure.
€110.00$142.00
This book examines the way Bernard of Clairvaux, in his writings, shapes the monastic existence as a subtle blend of biblical and liturgical texts and scenes on the one hand and uncontrollable events and emotions on the other.
€144.00$187.00
This book revisits some of the most significant guerrilla struggles of the late 19th century, all set in Africa, and remind readers, in light of current events, the difficulties involved in engaging in this type of conflict.
€110.00$142.00
The Crisis of Courtesy explores the metamorphosis of British courtesy-literature from the 17th to the 19th centuries. It shows how the preoccupation with conduct provided the subject-matter of such diverse literary forms as poetry, the essay and the novel.
€110.00$142.00
This comparative study focuses on literary representations in selected texts of three categories of ideal friendship — Christian, chivalric, and humanistic — and the writers' strategies for establishing the ethical authority of their model friends on a par with antiquity's amici perfecti.
€163.00$211.00
A study of the shaping of political and social institutions in Baghdad by an Iranian Shiite dynasty that re-established the Caliphate on a new footing as the powerless symbol of authority and legitimacy.