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14 produkter
Terrorism Before the Letter
Mythography and Political Violence in England, Scotland, and France 1559-1642
E-bok, 2015
1645 kr
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Beginning around 1559 and continuing through 1642, writers in England, Scotland, and France found themselves pre-occupied with an unusual sort of crime, a crime without a name which today we call ''terrorism''. These crimes were especially dangerous because they were aimed at violating not just the …
Terrorism Before the Letter
Mythography and Political Violence in England, Scotland, and France 1559-1642
Inbunden, 2015
2547 kr
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Beginning around 1559 and continuing through 1642, writers in England, Scotland, and France found themselves pre-occupied with an unusual sort of crime, a crime without a name which today we call 'terrorism'. These crimes were especially dangerous because they were aimed at violating not just the …
Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections
Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns
Inbunden, 2006
354 kr
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We didn’t always eat the way we do today, or think and feel about eating as we now do. But we can trace the roots of our own eating culture back to the culinary world of early modern Europe, which invented cutlery, haute cuisine, the weight-loss diet, and much else besides. Aguecheek’s Beef, …
Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections
Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns
Häftad, 2012
304 kr
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We didn't always eat the way we do today, or think and feel about eating as we now do. But we can trace the roots of our own eating culture back to the culinary world of early modern Europe, which invented cutlery, haute cuisine, the weight-loss diet, and much else besides. "Aguecheek's Beef, …
Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections
Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns
E-bok, 2008
654 kr
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We didn’t always eat the way we do today, or think and feel about eating as we now do. But we can trace the roots of our own eating culture back to the culinary world of early modern Europe, which invented cutlery, haute cuisine , the weight-loss diet, and much else besides. Aguecheek’s Beef, …
Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England
Häftad, 2010
654 kr
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Hundreds of writers in the English-speaking world of the seventeenth-century imagined alternative ideal societies. Sometimes they did so by exploring fanciful territories, such as the world in the moon or the nations of the Antipodes; but sometimes they composed serious disquisitions about the here …
Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2002
1778 kr
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Hundreds of writers in the English-speaking world of the seventeenth-century imagined alternative ideal societies. Sometimes they did so by exploring fanciful territories, such as the world in the moon or the nations of the Antipodes; but sometimes they composed serious disquisitions about the here …
Envisioning an English Empire
Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World
Av Robert Appelbaum, John Wood Sweet
E-bok, 2012
504 kr
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Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it.The founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no isolated incident. It was one event among …
Envisioning an English Empire
Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World
Av Robert Appelbaum, John Wood Sweet
Häftad, 2005
399 kr
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Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it.The founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no isolated incident. It was one event among …
Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption
Häftad, 2014
137 kr
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Working the Aisles takes the reader on tumultuous driving trips across the United States and France, on phone sex escapades in San Francisco, on banking battles in Sweden, and many other adventures - including, of course, on trips to supermarkets, where the author has had to 'work the aisles'. …
Aesthetics of Violence
Art, Fiction, Drama and Film
Inbunden, 2017
1952 kr
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Violence at an aesthetic remove from the spectator or reader has been a key element of narrative and visual arts since Greek antiquity. Here Robert Appelbaum explores the nature of mimesis, aggression, the effects of antagonism and victimization and the political uses of art throughout history. He …
Aesthetics of Violence
Art, Fiction, Drama and Film
E-bok, 2017
642 kr
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Violence at an aesthetic remove from the spectator or reader has been a key element of narrative and visual arts since Greek antiquity. Here Robert Appelbaum explores the nature of mimesis, aggression, the effects of antagonism and victimization and the political uses of art throughout history. He …
Aesthetics of Violence
Art, Fiction, Drama and Film
Häftad, 2019
656 kr
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Violence at an aesthetic remove from the spectator or reader has been a key element of narrative and visual arts since Greek antiquity. Here Robert Appelbaum explores the nature of mimesis, aggression, the effects of antagonism and victimization and the political uses of art throughout history. He …
Renaissance Discovery of Violence, from Boccaccio to Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2021
1516 kr
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Many have wondered why the works of Shakespeare and other early modern writers are so filled with violence, with murder and mayhem. This work explains how and why, putting the literature of the European Renaissance in the context of the history of violence. Personal violence was on the decline in …
