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Ardeal. La fine della Grande Guerra e il nuovo confine romeno-ungherese
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

Ardeal. La fine della Grande Guerra e il nuovo confine romeno-ungherese

Questo volume rappresenta il completamento di una ricerca attorno alla risistemazione dei confini in Europa centro-orientale al termine della Grande Guerra, compiuta nell’ambito del progetto Firb 2010 “L’Europa di Versailles (1919-1939). I nuovi equilibri europei tra le due guerre nelle fonti dell’Archivio dell’Ufficio Storico dello Stato Maggiore dell’Esercito”. Tale fase è stata centrale per la storia di molte regioni e il caso della Transilvania conferma l’importanza di questo delicato momento storico in cui si sono rivisti i confini di molti Stati europei. In qualche modo il libro si collega al precedente volume Ardeal: le origini della Transilvania romena, edito da Edizioni Nuova Cultura nel 2011, di cui prosegue l’analisi, soffermandosi sulle implicazioni del cambiamento del confine, tanto per le relazioni bilaterali fra Romania e Ungheria, quanto per la vita e il contesto socio-economico della popolazione locale.

The Great Parade
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

The Great Parade

  • Categories: Art

A beautiful book that showcases how circus figures and artifacts have been portrayed in art over the past two centuries The circus is a dazzling world filled with acrobats and harlequins, tumblers and riders, monsters and celestial creatures. Now this engaging book sets that world in a new light, examining how painters, sculptors, and photographers from the eighteenth century to the present have used the circus as a springboard for their imaginative expression and have envisioned the clown as a metaphor for the modern artist. The book presents more than 175 works by such artists as Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rouault, Picasso, Chagall, and Léger. Some of these are masterful works shown for the first time; these range from the 18-meter stage curtain Picasso designed in 1917 for Erik Satie's ballet Parade to more intimate works such as Nadar and Tournachon's photographs of Pierrot as played by celebrated mime Charles Debureau.

Early Modern Jesuits between Obedience and Conscience during the Generalate of Claudio Acquaviva (1581-1615)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Early Modern Jesuits between Obedience and Conscience during the Generalate of Claudio Acquaviva (1581-1615)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola on a principal of strict obedience to papal and superiors’ authorities, yet the nature of the Jesuits's work and the turbulent political circumstances in which they operated, inevitably brought them into conflict with the Catholic hierarchy. In order to better understand and contextualise the debates concerning obedience, this book examines the Jesuits of south-western Europe during the generalate of Claudio Acquaviva. Acquaviva’s thirty year generalate (1581-1615) marked a challenging time for the Jesuits, during which their very system of government was called into doubt. The need for obedience and the limits of that obedience posed a...

Trust in the Catholic Reformation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Trust in the Catholic Reformation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-06-08
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Thérèse Peeters shows how trust and distrust affected reform attempts in the post-Tridentine Church, while offering a multifaceted account of day-to-day religiosity in seventeenth-century Genoa.

Il nuovo mondo rivoluzionario
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 24

Il nuovo mondo rivoluzionario

Per lungo tempo, il cosiddetto Triennio democratico in Italia (1796-1799) è stato letto alla luce della categoria di «rivoluzione passiva». Solamente l’arrivo in Italia dell’ Armée d’Italie del generale Bonaparte aveva infranto l’ordine di antico regime e imposto governi repubblicani. Sulla scorta di una nuova lettura della documentazione di archivio, il saggio intende porre in evidenza l’attivismo dei patrioti italiani per conquistare uno spazio politico originale e guadagnare un consenso diffuso. L’associazionismo politico diviene in tal modo una chiave privilegiata per comprendere le forme e i modi dell’azione politica del movimento democratico in vista dell’unità ...

Improving working conditions in platform work in the light of the recent proposal for a directive
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Improving working conditions in platform work in the light of the recent proposal for a directive

  • Categories: Law

This collective work has the aim to bring together several contributions by scholars from different Countries through the leitmotif of the analysis of work through digital platforms, also in the light of the latest proposal for a European Union directive. The first section focuses on the analysis of digital platform work, in various aspects, including issues concerning the use of artificial intelligence. The second section analyses issues related to the development of workers’ rights through digital platforms. In the third section, the authors made considerations on the intervention of the draft directive on qualification.

Early Modern Litterae Indipetae for the East Indies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

Early Modern Litterae Indipetae for the East Indies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-05-08
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  • Publisher: BRILL

During the early modern period, thousands of Jesuits across Europe wrote individual applications for appointments in the “Indies” directly to the superior general of the Society of Jesus in Rome. Known today as litterae indipetae (from Indias petere, that is, applying for the missions in the Eastern and Western territories), these letters encompassed the most personal desires, hopes, and dreams of young Jesuits who sought to become missionaries. This book is the first English monograph on litterae indipetae and studies their style and structure, the background of their authors and the reasons behind their choices, as well as the network surrounding this practice (natural and spiritual families, procurators, confrères). Its purpose is also to capture the experiences of these individuals since lost to history by studying thousands of indipetae, in this case written mainly by Italian Jesuits at the turn of the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the petitions aimed at East Asia, and offers in-depth analysis of cases of Jesuits whose missionary zeal for China and Japan was fulfilled—or not.

Armando Saitta. Due storie d’Europa
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 21

Armando Saitta. Due storie d’Europa

Il testo si compone di due saggi scritti da Armando Saitta: Dalla Res Publica Christiana agli Stati Uniti di Europa (1948) e L’idea di Europa dal 1815 al 1870 (1956). La convinzione è quella di poter offrire una visione organica della storia europea che copre l’intera modernità, ne coglie i nodi problematici, ne evidenzia le tensioni con lo spirito nazionalista. Del resto, le ragioni con cui Saitta guardava all’Europa erano tutt’altro che un mero interesse storiografico ma una pratica di vita alla quale conformarsi. Pur nel suo stile erudito, la lettura europea di Saitta risulta un testo importante per comprendere la volontà di ri­scossa di quella generazione uscita annichilita dal venten­nio fascista. L’Eu­ropa, la sua sto­ria, la convinzione di una stretta connessione con la dimensione euro­pea per la più esatta comprensione della storia d’Ita­lia, sono una co­stante di fondo del modo di fare storia di Saitta; una bus­sola efficace per orientarsi nella sua vasta produzione storiografica.

2001
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

2001

Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.

Escaping Satiation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Escaping Satiation

The collection of papers presented in this special issue arose out of two events. The first was the symposium "Escaping Satiation - Increasing Product Variety, Preference Change and the Demand Side of Economic Growth" which was held at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany, in December 1997. The Fritz Thyssen Foundation provided financial support for this seminal symposium which is gratefully acknowledged. Wilhelm Ruprecht was of great help in preparing the symposium and I would like to express my gratitude to hirn on this occasion. Many stimulating exchanges with hirn over the past few years while he was a research associate at the Institute working on long term changes in consumption convinced me of the relevance and importance of this problem for understanding modem economic growth. I also owe thanks to many people who encouraged me to go ahead with the symposium, among them Stanley Metcalfe, Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, and also Ehud Zuscovitch, who died so unexpectedly last year.