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Animals and Early Modern Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1053

Animals and Early Modern Identity

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Animals were everywhere in the early modern period and they impacted, at least in some way, the lives of every kind of early modern person, from the humblest peasant to the greatest prince. Artists made careers based on depicting them. English gentry impoverished themselves spending money on them. Humanists exercised their scholarship writing about them. Pastors saved souls delivering sermons on them. Nobles forged alliances competing with them. Foreigners and indigenes negotiated with one another through trading them. The nexus between animal-human relationships and early modern identity is illuminated in this volume by the latest research of international scholars working on the history of...

Theater heute
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 424

Theater heute

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1986
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Wheel of Fortune
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

The Wheel of Fortune

BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY / WOMEN'S STUDIES / MUSIC

Images of Switzerland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Images of Switzerland

Images of Switzerland: Challenges from the Margins, appearing at a time when Swiss identity is under severe pressure, deals with perceptions of Switzerland held by a variety of minority groups. A historical review of attitudes to Jews prior to World War Two precedes chronologically essays on recent perceptions of marginalisation in literature written by women, manifestations of the Fremdarbeiter in German-Swiss literature, the outsider in the work of Lukas Hartmann and socially disadvantaged figures in recent Italian-Swiss writing.

Animals and Early Modern Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 427

Animals and Early Modern Identity

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2017-07-05
  • -
  • Publisher: Routledge

Animals were everywhere in the early modern period and they impacted, at least in some way, the lives of every kind of early modern person, from the humblest peasant to the greatest prince. Artists made careers based on depicting them. English gentry impoverished themselves spending money on them. Humanists exercised their scholarship writing about them. Pastors saved souls delivering sermons on them. Nobles forged alliances competing with them. Foreigners and indigenes negotiated with one another through trading them. The nexus between animal-human relationships and early modern identity is illuminated in this volume by the latest research of international scholars working on the history of...

Relazione sul Servizio Minerario
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 1134

Relazione sul Servizio Minerario

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1892
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Édith Piaf
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

Édith Piaf

The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.

Piaf
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 86

Piaf

From the streets of Paris to worldwide fame Edith Gassion (known to all as 'Piaf', the sparrow) continues to be remembered and revered for her exceptional voice and extraordinary, troubled life. In this new version of Piaf, Pam Gems has reworked her classic 1978 play, vividly capturing the glamour and squalor, the rise and fall of this complex, fragile and enigmatic performer.

Piaf
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 462

Piaf

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1970
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  • Publisher: W H Allen

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Current Biography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 728

Current Biography

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1951
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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