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The Letters of Psellos
The Letters of Psellos is the first detailed study of the correspondence of Michael Psellos, a leading Byzantine intellectual, politician, and writer of the eleventh century. Psellos' corpus of over 500 letters represents a historical source of great significance for the study of society and culture of the time: literary masterpieces in and of themselves, yet often complex and difficult to understand in their entirety, they not only rebound with subtlety and humor, but also offer invaluable information on myriad subjects ranging from the political culture of Byzantium and its civil administration to social codes, religious beliefs, and popular culture. This volume consists of two complementa...
Imperial Lineages and Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean
The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed in the widest possible global historical perspective with comparison of New World empires such as the Aztecs and Incas side by side with the history of imperial Rome and the empires of China and Russia in the medieval and modern periods. Surprisingly little work has been carried out focusing on the evolution of state control and imperial administration in the same territory; approached in a rigorous and historically grounded fashion over a wide extent of historical time from late antiquity to the twentieth century. The empires of Rome, Byzantium, the Ottomans and the latter-day imperialists in the nineteenth and early twentiet...
Poetry in Late Byzantium
The late Byzantine period (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) was marked by both cultural fecundity and political fragmentation, resulting in an astonishingly multifaceted literary output. This book addresses the poetry of the empire’s final quarter-millennium from a broad perspective, bringing together studies on texts originating in places from Crete to Constantinople and from court to school, treating topics from humanist antiquarianism to pious self-help, and written in styles from the vernacular to Homeric language. It thus offers a reference work to a much-neglected but rich textual material that is as varied as it was potent in the sociocultural contexts of its times. Contributors are Theodora Antonopoulou, Marina Bazzani, Julián Bértola, Martin Hinterberger, Krystina Kubina, Marc D. Lauxtermann, Florin Leonte, Ugo Mondini, Brendan Osswald, Giulia M. Paoletti, Cosimo Paravano, Daniil Pleshak, Alberto Ravani, and Federica Scognamiglio.
Our Man
From one of America’s greatest non-fiction writers, an epic saga of the rise and fall of American power, from Vietnam to Afghanistan, told through the life of one man. **WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2019** **FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2020** Richard Holbrooke was one of the most legendary and complicated figures in recent American history. Brilliant, utterly self-absorbed, and possessed of almost inhuman energy and appetites, he was both admired and detested. From his days as a young adviser in Vietnam to his last efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, Holbrooke embodied the postwar American impulse to take the lead on the global stage. He was t...
La fin du monde
Cette réflexion sur les thématiques de la fin du monde et des catastrophes s'inscrit dans une perspective interdisciplinaire. Elle examine les conceptions socioculturelles relatives à ces thématiques tout en abordant l'histoire des catastrophes environnementales majeures, la question des réponses anthropologiques aux catastrophes, etc.--[Memento].
Byzantion
Includes section "Comptes rendus".
France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence
The legacy of World War II and the division of Eastern and Western Europe produced a radical asymmetry, and a variety of misgivings and misunderstandings, in French and German experiences of the nuclear age. At the same time, however, political actors in both nations continually labored to reconcile their differences and engage in productive strategic dialogue. Grounded in cutting-edge research and freshly discovered archival sources, France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence teases out the paradoxical nuclear interactions between France and Germany from 1954 to the present day.
Le monde byzantin
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Haben Gefühle eine Geschichte?
Diese Studie setzt sich kritisch mit der aktuellen Emotionsforschung auseinander. Den Ausgangspunkt bildet die Frage nach den Erkenntnisinteressen und -möglichkeiten der kulturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen. Dabei zeigt sich die Notwendigkeit, die zeichentheoretischen Implikationen emotionstheoretischer Positionen zu überdenken. Ebenso dringlich stellt sich die Frage nach den Gegenstandsbereichen geschichtswissenschaftlicher Emotionsforschung. Diskutiert wird überdies, wie man sich die Relation der bislang erforschten Emotionsgeschichte zu anderen Geschichten, etwa der Sozial-, der Körper-, der Literatur-, der Mentalitäts- oder der Geschlechtergeschichte, vorzustellen hat.
Libération 44 dans le Vexin normand
Ce livre, qui ne ressemble à aucun autre, commence quand les forces alliées traversent la Seine - qui en a déjà tant vu, depuis l'occupation romaine et les incursions des Vikings ! - et poursuivent leur progression à travers le Vexin normand, dont les habitants vont vivre des semaines historiques, en aidant de leur mieux ceux qui les libèrent, même si - après quatre ans d'occupation - ils sont le plus souvent mal informés, désarmés, et théoriquement impuissants. C'est la Libération, telle qu'elle a été vécue, tour à tour, dans chaque commune du Vexin, en août 1944, que Jac Remise a choisi de faire revivre, cinquante ans après, en faisant parler ceux qui en ont été les ac...
