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Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform
In Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform, Bert Roest provides an up-to-date and comprehensive history of the Poor Clares from their early beginnings until the sixteenth century. With recourse to the available secondary literature and a wealth of primary sources, this book shows how the early history of the Poor Clares cannot be reduced to Franciscan initiatives, and that the institutionalization of the order was characterized by prolonged conflicts and a series of important papal interventions. The work also provides insight in the expansion of the order, the complexities of religious reforms, and the significant cultural production of the women involved.
The Business of Enlightenment
A great book about an even greater book is a rare event in publishing. Darnton's history of the Encyclopedie is such an occasion. The author explores some fascinating territory in the French genre of histoire du livre, and at the same time he tracks the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas. He is concerned with the form of the thought of the great philosophes as it materialized into books and with the way books were made and distributed in the business of publishing. This is cultural history on a broad scale, a history of the process of civilization. In tracing the publishing story of Diderot's Encyclopedie, Darnton uses new sources--the papers of eighteenth-century publishers--that allow him to...
Strangers and Neighbours
Though historians have come to acknowledge the mobility of rural populations in early modern Europe, few books demonstrate the intensity and importance of short-distance migrations as definitively as Strangers and Neighbours. Marshalling an incredible range of evidence that includes judicial records, tax records, parish registers, and the census of 1796, Jeremy Hayhoe reconstructs the migration profiles of more than 70,000 individuals from eighteenth-century northern Burgundy. In this book, Hayhoe paints a picture of a surprisingly mobile and dynamic rural population. More than three quarters of villagers would move at least once in their lifetime; most of those who moved would do so more than once, in many cases staying only briefly in each community. Combining statistical analysis with an extensive discussion of witness depositions, he brings the experiences and motivations of these many migrants to life, creating a virtuoso reconceptualization of the rural demography of the ancien régime.
The Modern Landscapes of Ted Smyth
The modern period in landscape architecture is enjoying the fascinated appreciation of scholars and historians in Europe and the Americas, and new themes, new subjects and new appraisals are appearing. This book contributes to the conversation by focusing on the work of a singular designer who spent his entire career in a province of the North Island of New Zealand. Ted Smyth practiced an assured landscape modernism without ever seeing the designs of his forebears or his contemporaries working in the UK, Europe and the United States. Designing in isolation from the mainstream of modernism, and a little after its high tide, Smyth produced a series of gardens that provoke a revaluation of the diffusionist model of influence. The book explains and describes the evolution of Smyth’s design vocabulary and relates it to the development of tropical landscape modernism in other Asia-Pacific sites. It shows how a culture of garden modernism can be generated from within a particular locale, and highlights Smyth’s engagement with Māori design traditions in search of a specific expression of the high modern essentialism of place.
Guide to Sources for Agricultural and Biological Research
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Vaudeville - Memórias
"Uma viagem pela noite boêmia do Rio, São Paulo, Nova York e Paris dos anos 70, 80 e 90, que revela histórias incríveis e repletas de grandes personagens como Pelé, Xuxa, João Gilberto e Chico Buarque. Ricardo Amaral é uma lenda viva quando o assunto é entretenimento e glamour. Conhecido como o "Rei da Noite Carioca", aqui, acompanhado como sempre de gente bonita, bacana e influente, ele abre seu baú de memórias e resgata histórias intrigantes, divertidas, saborosas, tensas e curiosas de personalidades conhecidas, conduzindo-nos em uma deliciosa viagem pela história da noite no país e no mundo. Um livro faz um retrato do comportamento de uma geração, fala da máfia de Nova York, traz pérolas de vários carnavais e revela o luxo e o lixo que convivem na noite."
Museums of the World
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Béziers pas à pas
Parcourir Béziers pas à pas, c'est pénétrer au cœur même du passé de la cité. Ce "Dictionnaire des rues", rédigé par Claude Lapeyre, conservateur du Musée du Biterrois, présidente de la Société archéologique de Béziers, et Alain Roque, employé aux archives municipales, pose quelques problèmes et permet d'en résoudre plus encore. L'ouvrage révèle l'intimité de la ville, ses particularités, ses monuments, son histoire, et traduit l'évolution culturelle et sociale de ses habitants, ainsi que leur quête passionnée de leurs racines vivantes. Le nom d'une rue trahit sa vocation au cours des siècles, la pérennité des coutumes locales et du folklore exprime l'affirmation d'un choix qui se veut – très vite – politique. Les documents ici figurés, rares, souvent inédits, apportent le souvenir émouvant de tranches d'une vie, qui plus jamais ne sera. Il était essentiel de les restituer au patrimoine collectif. Précieux témoignages que, patiemment, par des recherches d'archives et l'interrogation passionnée de la mémoire vivante, les auteurs peuvent - aujourd'hui - livrer à des lecteurs amoureux de leur ville.
