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This text aims to provide insight into the meaning and interpretation of Machiavelli and his works for management, marketing and political thought, and to highlight their relevance to the manager today.
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A study of the influence of true crime on fiction and drama. The book begins by defining the genre and then traces its history from the anonymous 16th-centruy play Arden of Faversham to the modern detective novel.
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In Suspect Saints and Holy Heretics Janine Larmon Peterson investigates regional saints whose holiness was contested. She scrutinizes the papacy's toleration of unofficial saints' cults and its response when their devotees challenged church authority about a cult's merits or the saint's orthodoxy. As she demonstrates, communities that venerated saints increasingly clashed with popes and inquisitors determined to erode any local claims of religious authority. Local and unsanctioned saints were spiritual and social fixtures in the towns of northern and central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. In some cases, popes allowed these saints' cults; in others, church officials condemn...