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Book Synopsis Culture and Power by : Jonathan Davies
Download or read book Culture and Power written by Jonathan Davies and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally grand ducal Tuscany and its cultural politics have been viewed through the lens of absolutism. Based on a wide range of newly found sources and building on recent revisionist scholarship, this study uses the universities of Pisa and Siena to expose the contradictions and the tensions which characterised the grand duchy. Setting the universities against the diplomatic, military, administrative, economic, ecclesiastical, and cultural development of the grand duchy, it shows how innovation mixed with tradition and local privileges were not only upheld but extended significantly.
Download or read book Duel written by Giacomo Casanova and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notorious adventurer and seducer Giacomo Casanova tells of his travels - on the run from the authorities of his native Venice - around northern Europe, poking fun at the ruling classes he encounters there, before focusing on a pivotal incident that occurs in Warsaw. Insulted by a Polish count over an Italian ballerina, Casanova finds himself forced to challenge his rival to a duel, and the sequence of events and their aftermath are described with gusto by the narrator.A rollicking autobiographical account by one of the most iconic figures of eighteenth-century Europe, The Duel is presented here with an extract about the same event from Casanova's memoirs, written fifteen years later.
Download or read book The Duel written by Giacomo Casanova and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About This Book In this autobiographical tale, a young dandy is forced to flee his hometown after falling afoul of the authorities. But sheltering in the royal court he finds treachery and insult and is eventually positioned into a meaningless confrontation over a woman he cares nothing about. Told with debonair wit and a merciless attitude toward high society, the tale becomes a tense adventure that leads to a surprising outcome. This Is A Melville House “HybridBook” HybridBooks are a union of print and electronic media: Purchasers of this print edition also receive Illuminations—additional curated material that expands the world of Casanova's novella through text and illustrations—at no additional charge. To obtain the Illuminations for The Duel by Giacomo Casanova, simply scan the QR code (or follow a url) found at the back of the print book; the link leads to a landing page where you can download a file for your preferred electronic reading device. Included are excerpts from work by Havelock Ellis - W.E. Garrett Fisher - Richard von Kraft Ebbing - Arthur Schnitzler - Arthur Symonds - Mark Twain - And the entire version of Casanova's duel as written in his personal memoirs. Full-color art by Francesco Casanova - Anton Raphael Mengs - Jean-Marc Nattier - Johann Berka - an 1841 map of Weehawken - "An Air Balloon Engagement" by J. Barrow - and portraits of the ten most deadly duelists. Also included: “Famous Duels, Duelists, and Dueling Grounds”
Download or read book Il Duello written by Lauren K. Woods and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anti-duel Or A Plan for the Abrogation of Duelling which Has Been Tried and Found Succesful by : John Dunlop
Download or read book Anti-duel Or A Plan for the Abrogation of Duelling which Has Been Tried and Found Succesful written by John Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Ty Geltmaker Publisher :Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN 13 : Total Pages :160 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tired of Living written by Ty Geltmaker and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original work examines the bases for the widespread belief among Italians during their first fifty years as a unified country that suicide was a growing epidemic. The story of this concern over the rise in suicide is told within the context of related debates over Italy's emerging national identity and what it meant to be Italian. Many commentators saw suicide in this period as a «safety valve» peculiar to Italy's late political and economic development. Popular «Degeneration» theories gave scientific credibility to such sociological analyses, while the Roman Catholic Church linked the rise in suicide to the secular unification of the state. Controversies over a resurgence of dueling and a fascination with war as «indirect» suicide are examined in this overview of Italian social, cultural, and legal history.
Book Synopsis The Journal of Medieval Military History by : Clifford J. Rogers
Download or read book The Journal of Medieval Military History written by Clifford J. Rogers and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latest volume of original articles on all aspects of warfare in the middle ages. The broad topic of medieval warfare is here explored across the full chronological range of the Middle Ages, using a wide variety of approaches, including literary, prosopographical, technological, and narrative-based analysis. Akey feature of the journal is its commitment to fostering debate on the most significant issues in medieval military history; that tradition is continued here with Bernard Bachrach's argument against the idea that early medieval military structures and practices were sharply different from Late Antique ones. Individual battles, the Hattin campaign of 1187 and Byzantine war against Bulgaria in 1254-1256, are the focus of two other chapters; an article by Richard Kaeuper (based on his De Re Militari special lecture at the International Congress of Medieval Studies) emphasizes the value of chansons de geste and other "romance" material for understanding the mentalité of the martial lay aristocracy of medieval Christendom; and there are further articles on the factors that motivated gentlemen to fight, in both open warfare, and individual combat. Weapons of warfare are not neglected, with chapters casting lighton the development of the crossbow and the trebuchet. CONTRIBUTORS: BERNARD S. BACHRACH, MICHAEL EHRLICH, MICHAEL BASISTA, NICHOLAS S. KANELLOPOULOS, JOANNE K. LEKEA, RICHARD W. KAEUPER, MARK DUPUY, MALCOLM MERCER, STEVEN C. HUGHES
Book Synopsis The XVIth Century by : Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Vienna, Austria)
Download or read book The XVIth Century written by Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Vienna, Austria) and published by . This book was released on 1520 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Publisher :BoD – Books on Demand ISBN 13 :3385051002 Total Pages :578 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (85 download)
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Book Synopsis Cultures of Violence by : S. Carroll
Download or read book Cultures of Violence written by S. Carroll and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinkers and historians have long perceived violence and its control as integral to the very idea of 'Western Civilization'. Focusing on interpersonal violence and the huge role it played in human affairs in the post-medieval West, this timely collection brings together the latest interdisciplinary and historical research in the field.
Book Synopsis The Captain's Concubine by : Donald Weinstein
Download or read book The Captain's Concubine written by Donald Weinstein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 21, 1578, Holy Thursday, cavalier Fabrizio Bracciolini charged that he had been ambushed, slashed, stoned, and left bleeding in a Pistoia street by fellow cavalier Mariotto Cellesi and four accomplices. In The Captain's Concubine: Love, Honor, and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany, Donald Weinstein studies the lengthy investigation of the incident, bares the motives of the actors, and follows the ensuing trial. Weinstein examines the roles of the patricians, merchants, shopkeepers, weavers, priests, and prostitutes who served as audience, bit players, and chorus in this Renaissance street-theater drama. When Fabrizio is revealed to be the lover of Chiara, the concubine of Mariotto's father, questioning moves away from the street fight itself to the right of the defendants to take revenge for violated family honor: accuser becomes accused, and a simple case of assault turns into a community's discussion of its most tenacious values. Lurching from comedy to tragedy and neglected even by local chroniclers, the Holy Thursday incident involved issues of honor, family, religion, gender relations, and power familiar to social historians of late medieval and early modern Europe. For the Medici ruler of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Holy Thursday affair presented a dilemma: bound to regard duels and street fights as threats to an all too fragile public order and a challenge to his sovereignty, Francesco I nevertheless respected and fostered the aristocratic code of honor, family loyalty, and chivalric valor to which the Cellesi appealed. How these contradictions were accommodated is a crucial part of the story Weinstein tells.
Book Synopsis e-Pedia: Game of Thrones (season 6) by : Wikipedia Contributors
Download or read book e-Pedia: Game of Thrones (season 6) written by Wikipedia Contributors and published by e-Pedia. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 3682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The sixth season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones premiered on HBO on April 24, 2016, and concluded on June 26, 2016. It consists of ten episodes, each of approximately 50–60 minutes, largely of original content not found in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Some material is adapted from the upcoming sixth novel The Winds of Winter and the fourth and fifth novels, A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons. The series was adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. HBO ordered the season on April 8, 2014, together with the fifth season, which began filming in July 2015 primarily in Northern Ireland, Spain, Croatia, Iceland and Canada. Each episode cost over $10 million. This book has been derived from Wikipedia: it contains the entire text of the title Wikipedia article + the entire text of all the 593 related (linked) Wikipedia articles to the title article. This book does not contain illustrations. e-Pedia (an imprint of e-artnow) charges for the convenience service of formatting these e-books for your eReader. We donate a part of our net income after taxes to the Wikimedia Foundation from the sales of all books based on Wikipedia content.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of the Rev. John Pitts, ... The Sale Will Begin on Monday, the 20th of January, 1794, by Benjamin and John White, ... by : B. and J. White
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the Rev. John Pitts, ... The Sale Will Begin on Monday, the 20th of January, 1794, by Benjamin and John White, ... written by B. and J. White and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mussolini 1883-1915 by : Spencer M. Di Scala
Download or read book Mussolini 1883-1915 written by Spencer M. Di Scala and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes Mussolini’s little-known radical ideology, including his activities in Switzerland, relationship with revolutionary syndicalism, and radical journalism. It provides an in-depth treatment of the young Benito Mussolini as a revolutionary Socialist and describes the political maneuverings that took a major European Socialist party by storm before the First World War. It explains the process of how he came to dominate Italian Socialism until the crisis caused by Italy’s intervention in World War I. It illuminates Mussolini’s leadership qualities and his rise to leader of the Italian Socialist Party.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 by : Library of Congress. Music Division
Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Library of Congress. Music Division and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 by : Oscar George Theodore Sonneck
Download or read book Catalogue of Opera Librettos Printed Before 1800 written by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ultimate Italian by : Fulvio Conti
Download or read book The Ultimate Italian written by Fulvio Conti and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how Dante Alighieri has been represented in the Italian collective imagination from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Often held to be a precursor of Italian unity, the author of the Divine Comedy has been put forward both as a standard-bearer of a secular, anti-clerical Italy and the embodiment of the concept of a deeply religious and Catholic nation; while he was later adopted by nationalist and fascists as well as a pop icon in the age of the internet and globalization. The book describes this long and fascinating history from a completely original point of view: the centuries-old myth of Dante is analysed from the perspective of cultural history. The sources employed include Dante commemorations, festivals and monuments, pilgrimages to his tomb, films and other media productions about Dante, as well as comic strips, advertisements and other cultural items dedicated to him.
