Gie - Böcker

"Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention...Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies." -George R.R. Martin, author of the series A Song of Ice and Fire...

Läs mer »

For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is Miep Gies's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they...

Läs mer »

A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change. Trouble with water - increasingly frequent, extreme floods and droughts - is one of the first obvious signs of climate chan...

Läs mer »

The definitive classic used as a source for Game of Thrones: "e;The Gieses succeed in making a remote and unfamiliar world accessible."e; -Kirkus ReviewsA bestseller by two widely respected historians, Joseph and Frances Gies's Life in a M...

Läs mer »

An ambitious work that traces the stories and fates of women in Medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. "e;A wealth of solid information."e; -The New York TimesMedieval history is often written as a series of battles and territori...

Läs mer »

A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knightA carefully researched, concise, readable, and entertaining account of an institution that remains a part of the Western imagination. Los Angeles TimesBorn out of the chaos of ...

Läs mer »

From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martins Game of Thrones series.Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages...

Läs mer »

The reissue of Joseph and Frances Giess classic bestseller on life in medieval villages.This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work a...

Läs mer »

From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic Medieval Life series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readable account of the family unit as it evolved throughout the Medieval periodreissued for the first time ...

Läs mer »

The fascinating story of the fortunes of one medieval family over the course of a century, from bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies.The Pastons were members of the English gentrya tiny group of roughly 1,000 households sandwiched betwee...

Läs mer »

"Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention...Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies." -George R.R. Martin, author of the series A Song of Ice and Fire...

Läs mer »

The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies's classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work...

Läs mer »

From bestselling historians Frances and Joseph Gies, authors of the classic "Medieval Life" series, comes this compelling, lucid, and highly readable account of the family unit as it evolved throughout the Medieval period-reissued for the first ti...

Läs mer »

Drawing on social-legal, cultural and media theory, this book is one of the first to examine the media politics of human rights. It examines how the media construct the story of human rights, investigating what lies behind the apparent media hosti...

Läs mer »

This is the first comprehensive study of the theatre of nineteenth-century Spain, a most important genre which produced more than 10,000 plays during the course of the century. David Gies assesses this mass of material - much of it hitherto unknow...

Läs mer »

The Frenchman Juan de Grimaldi was instrumental in the development of the Spanish theatre in the 1820s and 30s, at a time when censorship, repression, and economic chaos had left it in a state of stagnation. As impresario and stage director, he tr...

Läs mer »

The Frenchman Juan de Grimaldi was instrumental in the development of the Spanish theatre in the 1820s and 30s, at a time when censorship, repression, and economic chaos had left it in a state of stagnation. As impresario and stage director, he tr...

Läs mer »

This is the first comprehensive study of the theatre of nineteenth-century Spain, a most important genre which produced more than 10,000 plays during the course of the century. David Gies assesses this mass of material - much of it hitherto unknow...

Läs mer »

This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture from its beginnings in the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Leading experts analyse historical and political issues, the culture of major regions including Castile, Catalonia...

Läs mer »

This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture from its beginnings in the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Leading experts analyse historical and political issues, the culture of major regions including Castile, Catalonia...

Läs mer »

This is the first comprehensive history of Spanish literature to be published in English since the 1970s. It brings together experts from the USA, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Together, the essays cover the full range of Spanish poetry, prose, a...

Läs mer »

Now available in paperback, this comprehensive history of Spanish literature covers the full range of Spanish literature from the early Middle Ages to the present. This invaluable work contains more than fifty substantial chapters, a chronology of...

Läs mer »

Today, when ""globalization"" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments. During the chronological eighteenth century...

Läs mer »