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Tradition, Flavor, and Family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 473

Tradition, Flavor, and Family

Discover the heart of the Edgecombe family in "Tradition, Flavor, and Family- The Edgecombe Heritage Cookbook". This cookbook brings cherished recipes from our mothers, grandmothers, and aunts to your kitchen. With simple, adaptable dishes and time-honored methods passed down through generations, you'll savor the flavors that define our heritage. Enjoy a taste of tradition with every bite!

Secrets of Life and Death
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Secrets of Life and Death

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996-11-17
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  • Publisher: Verso

This volume focuses on women whose lives are entangled in the workings of the Mafia, drawing on courtroom testimonies, interviews, contemporary journalism and recent research. Individual narratives illuminate women's experiences, both as victims or active opponents.

Finding Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Finding Europe

"This is an important collection and starting point for the worthy goal of promoting a better understanding of the past that makes it less able to be manipulated for contemporary political and religious aims...Compiled out of the European past, its aim of a better understanding of traditional values ought to be useful for contemporary cultures and for the work of scholars of all cultures and continents." - Renaissance Quarterly In the last decade or so, many books have been devoted to the history of Europe.Two conceptual axes predominate in a large number of these accounts: a discourse focusing on Europe's values, and another discourse, fashioned largely in opposition to the first, which emp...

For My Children
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 477

For My Children

The book entitled For My Children is a personal compilation of poetry with some short stories included. The poetry is drawn from a wide subject matter encompassing topics of humour, thought provoking metaphors, sensitive, fantasy, inspirational, romantic and also expressions of sympathy. The vicissitudes of life and living expressed in poetic simplicity. Listen, as they whisper to you inaudibly, to the heart and soul.

Language and Intercultural Competence Education in a Global Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Language and Intercultural Competence Education in a Global Age

This book examines the essential connection between language learning and intercultural competence. The book explores teaching strategies, pedagogical frameworks, and real-world applications to emphasize the importance of language diversity and intercultural dialogue. The first chapter presents a study on enhancing intercultural competence in English for Specific Purposes (ESP), highlighting the role of reflective and practical activities. The subsequent chapters delve into university-industry collaboration, interdisciplinary learning in higher education, teacher training programs, and the promotion of plurilingual competence through English education. Additionally, the book reviews intercul...

Women, Crime, and Forgiveness in Early Modern Portugal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Women, Crime, and Forgiveness in Early Modern Portugal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-09
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which judicial and quasi-judicial records can be used to examine the implications of crime in women’s lives, whether as victims or culprits. The foundational basis for this study is two sets of manuscript sources that highlight two distinct yet connected experiences of women as participants in the criminal process. One consists of a collection of archival documents from the first half of the seventeenth century, a corpus called 'querelas,' in which formal accusations of criminal acts were registered. This is a rich source of information not only about ...

The Crown, the Court and the Casa da Índia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 197

The Crown, the Court and the Casa da Índia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-26
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In The Crown, the Court and the Casa da Índia, Susannah Humble Ferreira examines the social and political context that gave rise to the Portuguese Overseas Empire during the reigns of João II (1481-95) and Manuel I (1495-1521). In particular the book elucidates the role of the Portuguese royal household in the political consolidation of Portugal in this period. By looking at the relationship of the Manueline Reforms, the expulsion of the Jews and the creation of the Santa Casa da Misericordia to the political threat brought on by the expansion of Ferdinand of Aragon into the Mediterranean, the author re-evaluates the place of the overseas expansion in the policies of the Portuguese crown.

Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe

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

In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of the nobility' in early-modern Europe. Offering a range of case studies from countries across Europe this collection further expands our understanding of just how the nobility adapted to the rapidly changing social, political, religious and cultural circumstances around them. By allowing readers to compare and contrast a variety of case studies across a range of national and disciplinary boundaries, a fuller - if more complex - picture emerges of the strategies and actions employed by nobles to retain their influence and wealth. The nobility exploited Renaissance science and edu...

Frontiers of Possession
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

Frontiers of Possession

Tamar Herzog asks how territorial borders were established in the early modern period and challenges the standard view that national boundaries are settled by military conflicts and treaties. Claims and control on both sides of the Atlantic were subject to negotiation, as neighbors and outsiders carved out and defended new frontiers of possession.

Women in the Lusophone World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 556

Women in the Lusophone World in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

The present collection echoes and contributes to a number of the issues defined by both the traditional and revisionist historiography. The intent of this special issue of the Portuguese Studies Review was to highlight some of the new research on late medieval and early modern Portuguese women, subjects typically situated outside of the academic mainstream, and to complement the four major collections on the history of Portuguese women published since 1986, as well as the larger literature dealing with Spain. The essays are organized into six general themes: “Female Characters in Late Medieval Chronicles,” “Women and Power in the Late Middle Ages,” “Habsburg Queens and Portugal,”...