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Il formaggio e i vermi
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Carlo Ginzburg,John Tedeschi,Anne C. Tedeschi |
Offers a study of culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. This bo… |
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Sacred History
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Katherine van Liere |
This volume provides the first geographically broad, comparative survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its institutio… |
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The Reformation in Germany and Switzerland
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Pamela Johnston,Bob W. Scribner |
Combines new interpretations which emphasise the importance of popular response, belief and practice with the traditional approach to the origins and progress of the Reformation in Germany and Switze… |
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Jüdische existenz in der Moderne
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Christian Wiese,Thomas Brechenmacher,Walter Homolka |
"In this book, internationally renowned historians reconstruct the biography and intellectual development of the rabbi and historian Abraham Geiger (1810-1874). The focus is on Geiger's intellectual … |
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The weaker vessel
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Antonia Fraser |
What were the women of the Civil War era like? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Antonia Fras… |
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Jesus in America
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Richard Wightman Fox |
"This book is for believers and non-believers alike. It is not a book about whether one should believe in Jesus, but about how Americans have believed in and portrayed him." (From the Introduction)Je… |
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The Revolution of the Saints
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Michael Walzer |
The Revolution of the Saints is a study, both historical and sociological, of the radical political response of the Puritans to disorder. It interprets and analyzes Calvinism as the first modern expr… |
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The Reformation and the visual arts
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Sergiusz Michalski |
Covering a vast geographical and chronological span, and bringing new and exciting material to light, The Reformation and the Visual Arts provides a unique overvie of religious images and iconoclasm,… |
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Sexual politics
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Kate Millett |
How the patriarchal bias operates in culture and is reflected in literature. |
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Always Reforming
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Craig D. Atwood |
"Always Reforming highlights the fact that in the modern era the notion of heresy has fallen apart. Every church has been declared heretical at some time or other by another church, and it is not the… |
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