Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series - CEU Press – serie
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Spectrum of Unfreedom
Captives and Slaves in the Ottoman Empire
Häftad, 2021
235 kr
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Without the labor of the captives and slaves, the Ottoman empire could not have attained and maintained its strength in early modern times. With Anatolia as the geographic focus, Leslie Peirce searches for the voices of the unfree, drawing on archives, histories written at the time, and legal …
Secularism and Its Ambiguities
Four Case Studies
Häftad, 2023
558 kr
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In the best micro-historical tradition, Carlo Ginzburg, himself one of the founders and icons of this genre of historiography, dissects four moments of European intellectual history. This book relives the experience that participants in the Natalie Zemon Davis Lecture Series at the Budapest campus …
Emotions in History - Lost and Found
Av Ute Frevert
Häftad, 2011
320 kr
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Coming to terms with emotions and how they influence human behaviour, seems to be of the utmost importance to societies that are obsessed with everything neuro. On the other hand, emotions have become an object of constant individual and social manipulation since emotional intelligence emerged as a …
Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500-1960
Visions, Religious Images and Photographs
Häftad, 2012
340 kr
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This study addresses the relation of people to divine beings in contemporary and historical communities, as exemplified in three strands. One is a long tradition of visions of mysterious wayfarers in rural Spain who bring otherworldly news and help, including recent examples. Another treats the …
Men at the Center
Redemptive Governance under Louis IX
Häftad, 2012
350 kr
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Taking Professor Natalie Zemon Davis’ fascinating biographical studies of three Women on the Margins in the seventeenth century as an inspiration, the author of this book offers three portraits of men who were at the very center of governance in thirteenth-century France, men who strove in the …
Secrets and Truths
Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police
Häftad, 2014
340 kr
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Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations. Its files were …
Hybrid Renaissance
Culture, Language, Architecture
Av Peter Burke
Häftad, 2016
316 kr
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Hybrid Renaissance introduces the idea that the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe is an example of cultural hybridization.The two key concepts used in this book are “hybridization” and “Renaissance”. Roughly speaking, hybridity refers to something new that …
Arguing it Out
Discussion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium
Häftad, 2016
306 kr
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The long twelfth century, from the seizure of the throne by Alexius I Comnenus in 1081, to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, is a period recognized as fostering the most brilliant cultural development in Byzantine history, especially in its literary production. It was a time …
In the Name of History
Häftad, 2019
181 kr
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In this book Joan Wallach Scott discusses the role history has played as an arbiter of right and wrong and of those who claim to act in its name—in the name of history. Scott investigates three different instances in which repudiation of the past was conceived as a way to a better future: the …
Blood Libels, Hostile Archives
Reclaiming Interrupted Jewish Lives
Av Magda Teter
Häftad, 2025
253 kr
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As a minority group for most of their history, Jews were often marginalized and persecuted. Traces of their lives can be found in the archives of the dominant societies, but only as they intersected with the concerns of those in power. Just as Natalie Zemon Davis, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Carlo …
Dürer's Coats
Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition
Häftad, 2025
306 kr
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During the Renaissance, clothing became more and more elaborately decorated and expensive. It often emphasised the privilege of the male elite. Yet clothing could also subvert or reshape conventional cultural norms. Ulinka Rublack argues that cloaks and gowns gained in importance during this period …
Writing Cities
Exploring Early Modern Urban Discourse
Häftad, 2019
320 kr
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Only one out of ten early modern Europeans lived in cities. Yet cities were crucial nodes, joining together producers and consumers, rulers and ruled, and believers in diverse faiths and futures. They also generated an enormous amount of writing, much of which focused on civic life itself. But …
Measuring Time, Making History
Av Lynn Hunt
Häftad, 2008
181 kr
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Time is the crucial ingredient in history, and yet historians rarely talk about time as such. These essays offer new insight into the development of modern conceptions of time, from the Christian dating system (BC/AD or BCE/CE) to the idea of "modernity" as a new epoch in human history.
Emotion and Devotion
The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures
Av Miri Rubin
Häftad, 2009
181 kr
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In Emotion and Devotion Miri Rubin explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures. In three original chapters she approaches the medieval figure of the Virgin Mary with the aim of unravelling meaning and experience. Hymns and miracle tales, …
