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Author : Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (816 download)
Download or read book King Kristoffer's Daughter written by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claire Lorrimer
Publisher : Severn House/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1780108001
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Live the Dream written by Claire Lorrimer and published by Severn House/ORIM. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced apart by the onset of World War II, a pair of young lovers struggles to survive and reunite in this “engrossing and satisfying” historical romance (Booklist). August, 1939. When it becomes clear that war is about to break out with Germany, seventeen-year-old twin sisters Dilys and Una Singleby are forced to leave their studies in Munich and return home to England. Heartbroken at being separated, Dilys and her Norwegian boyfriend, Kristoffer, vow to be reunited as soon as it’s possible. As the months pass, a series of misunderstandings and misguided actions keep the lovers apart. When she discovers she’s pregnant, Dilys, unable to contact Kristoffer, is driven to desperate measures to ensure that she can keep her baby and avoid bringing disgrace to her family. Kristoffer meanwhile joins the Resistance and faces dangerous times ahead. It seems as though the pair is destined never to meet again . . . but will true love find a way? “Lorrimer knits a smoothly written . . . Tale that balances ‘five years of bitter war’ with unstoppable love.” —Booklist
Author : Karen Klassen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Kings and Kindred written by Karen Klassen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan V. Murray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351884832
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The North-Eastern Frontiers of Medieval Europe written by Alan V. Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the mid-twelfth century the lands on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, from Finland to the frontiers of Poland, were Catholic Europe’s final frontier: a vast, undeveloped expanse of lowlands, forest and waters, inhabited by peoples belonging to the Finnic and Baltic language groups. In the course of the following three centuries, Finland, Estonia, Livonia and Prussia were incorporated into the Latin world through processes of conquest, Christianisation and settlement, and brought under the rule of Western monarchies and ecclesiastical institutions. Lithuania was left as the last pagan polity in Europe, yet able to accept Christianity on its own terms in 1386. The Western conquest of the Baltic lands advanced the frontier of Latin Christendom to that of the Russian Orthodox world, and had profound and long lasting effects on the institutions, society and culture of the region lasting into modern times. This volume presents 21 key studies (2 of them translated from German for the first time) on this crucial period in the development of North-Eastern Europe, dealing with crusade and conversion, the establishment of Western rule, settlement and society, and the development of towns, trade and the economy. It includes a classified bibliography of the main works published in Western languages since World War II together with an introduction by the editor.
Author : Marianna Muravyeva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317388852
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Domestic Disturbances, Patriarchal Values written by Marianna Muravyeva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth analysis of several national case studies on family violence between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, using court records as their main source. It raises important questions for research on early modern Europe: the notion of absolute power; sovereignty and its applicability to familial power; the problem of violence and the possibility of its usage for conflict resolution both in public and private spaces; and the interconnection of gender and violence against women, reconsidered in the context of modern state formation as a public sphere and family building as a private sphere. Contributors bring together detailed studies of domestic violence and spousal murder in Romania, England, and Russia, abduction and forced marriage in Poland, infanticide and violence against parents in Finland, and rape and violence against women in Germany. These case studies serve as the basis for a comparative analysis of forms, models, and patterns of violence within the family in the context of debates on political power, absolutism, and violence. They highlight changes towards unlimited violence by family patriarchs in European countries, in the context of the changing relationship between the state and its citizens. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the History of the Family.
Author : Beatrice Moring
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003847412
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Women and Family Property written by Beatrice Moring and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines property legislation and the actual position of women in receiving, holding and passing on family property as daughters, wives and as widows throughout history. Traditionally the prevailing view has been that women have been disadvantaged in the distribution of property and therefore less interesting as objects of study. This volume challenges this view and explores the securing of property for families or for individuals through transfers in the shape of dowries, marriage contracts, wills and other arrangements, as well as how women used and distributed the property they were holding.The scope of the volume is both urban and rural, analysing the position of women in relation to family property through contributions from a wide geographic area. The chapters investigate the situation in southern and northern Europe, across the Atlantic and Africa throughout the 18th to the 20th century. This volume will be of value to academics, undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in gender and history and social history.
Author : David Kirby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052183225X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book A Concise History of Finland written by David Kirby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date political, social and economic history of Finland from medieval times to the present. David Kirby traces the evolution of Finland's distinctive identity and of the Finnish national state from the long centuries under Swedish rule, through self-government within the Russian Empire, to independence in the twentieth century.
Author : Satu Lidman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351600052
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Gender, Violence and Attitudes written by Satu Lidman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Violence and Attitudes explores the history of gender-based violence in early modern Europe, particularly intimate-partner violence and sexual violence. It also investigates the legacy of gender-based violence through the Enlightenment to the present day and offers a historical background to highly topical human rights issues. Although the individual subjects of gender and the history of violence are not new topics, the gendering of violence has received little examination. Within this book, the history of attitudes and practices related to gender and power are analysed, and the nature of violence, justice and societal considerations of gender are explored as cultural constructs: they have the capacity to change over time, although there also is a tendency for continuity. The study is based on a wide range of sources including marriage guides, poems, plays, legal texts and court records exploring deep-rooted violence phenomena in Sweden (including historical Finland), the German territories, England and, to some extent, France. Offering a detailed analysis of gender and the culture of violence, Gender, Violence and Attitudes is essential reading for students and general readers who wish to understand the history of violence and its continual association with gender from early modern Europe to the present day.
Author : Jon Vidar Sigurdsson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501708473
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Viking Friendship written by Jon Vidar Sigurdsson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To a faithful friend, straight are the roads and short."—Odin, from the Hávamál (c. 1000) Friendship was the most important social bond in Iceland and Norway during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. Far more significantly than kinship ties, it defined relations between chieftains, and between chieftains and householders. In Viking Friendship, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson explores the various ways in which friendship tied Icelandic and Norwegian societies together, its role in power struggles and ending conflicts, and how it shaped religious beliefs and practices both before and after the introduction of Christianity. Drawing on a wide range of Icelandic sagas and other sources, Sigurðsson details how loyalties between friends were established and maintained. The key elements of Viking friendship, he shows, were protection and generosity, which was most often expressed through gift giving and feasting. In a society without institutions that could guarantee support and security, these were crucial means of structuring mutual assistance. As a political force, friendship was essential in the decentralized Free State period in Iceland’s history (from its settlement about 800 until it came under Norwegian control in the years 1262–1264) as local chieftains vied for power and peace. In Norway, where authority was more centralized, kings attempted to use friendship to secure the loyalty of their subjects. The strong reciprocal demands of Viking friendship also informed the relationship that individuals had both with the Old Norse gods and, after 1000, with Christianity’s God and saints. Addressing such other aspects as the possibility of friendship between women and the relationship between friendship and kinship, Sigurðsson concludes by tracing the decline of friendship as the fundamental social bond in Iceland as a consequence of Norwegian rule.
Author : Niels Skyum-Nielsen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788788073300
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Danish Medieval History, New Currents written by Niels Skyum-Nielsen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danish Medieval History - New Currents
Author : Inger Gammelgaard Madsen
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726884720
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Username: Doll Child written by Inger Gammelgaard Madsen and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1 in the best-selling Roland Benito series. On a humid and rain-filled summer day in the Danish suburb of Brabrand, the body of a ten-year-old girl is found lifeless in a dumpster. Detective Inspector Roland Benito is immediately put on the case. Reporter Anne Larsen and freelance photographer, Kamilla Holm, are covering the case for The Daily News and the deeper they look into the story, the more entangled they become. It quickly becomes apparent to all involved, that the crime is linked to an internet chat site where the murdered girl had a profile. The hunt for the killer is on. But things start to get complicated when the victim’s best friend mysteriously disappears. She too had a profile on the chat site. She too lied about her age. ‘Doll Child’ is the chilling story of the dark side to the internet, where no-one knows who is hiding behind that username or what they're capable of doing. For fans of Karin Slaughter, Tess Geritsen and Ian Rankin. Inger Gammelgaard Madsen is a prolific Danish crime writer, most famous for her Rolando Benito detective series. She has always been creative and was a graphic designer before returning to her first love, writing. Deeply fascinated by police work and forensics, crime fiction was a natural progression, and true crime events inspire all her stories. Madsen is also the author behind the 'Teilmann' series, which was picked as an Audible Original title and published in four languages.
Author : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195352559
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (525 download)
Download or read book American Theatre written by Thomas S. Hischak and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-08 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume Four of the distinguished American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama series offers a thorough, candid, and fascinating look at the theater in New York during the last decades of the twentieth century.
Author : F. M. Butlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Among the Danes written by F. M. Butlin and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert J. Lentz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786487224
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Gloria Grahame, Bad Girl of Film Noir written by Robert J. Lentz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marvelous actress, Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) was also an iconic figure of film noir. Her talents are showcased in several classic motion pictures of the 1940s and 1950s, including It's a Wonderful Life, Crossfire, In a Lonely Place, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Big Heat, Oklahoma!, and The Bad and the Beautiful, for which she earned an Academy Award. This comprehensive overview of Gloria Grahame's life and work examines each of her feature films in detail, as well as her made-for-television productions, her television-series appearances and her stage career. Also discussed are the varied ways in which Grahame's acting performances were affected by her tumultuous personal life--which included four marriages, the second to director Nicholas Ray and the fourth to Ray's stepson Anthony.
Author : Margarida Durães
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034300568
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Transmission of Well-being written by Margarida Durães and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does well-being mean when we talk about men and women in the past? Their sheer chances of survival, their protection from want, their social status, their individual agency and their self-esteem were all strongly mediated by the family, the predominant social institution. Family laws and customs of family formation created differences between insiders and outsiders in terms of well-being. Within families, there were strong differences in autonomy, status and freedom between the genders and generations. The book offers a fascinating exploration of gender differences in well-being in many regions of historic Europe, with some comparative perspectives. It explores how historic family systems differed with respect to choosing a marriage partner, transmitting property, living and care conditions of widows and widowers and the position of children born out of wedlock.
Author : Alice Beck Kehoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Kensington Runestone written by Alice Beck Kehoe and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kensington Runestone is a 200-pound slab of greywacke covered in runes on its face and side which, if genuine, would suggest that Scandinavian explorers reached the middle of North America in the 14th century. It was found in 1898 in the largely rural township of Solem, Douglas County, Minnesota, and named after the nearest settlement, Kensington. Almost all Runologists and experts in Scandinavian linguistics consider the runestone to be a hoax. The runestone has been analyzed and dismissed repeatedly without local effect. The community of Kensington is solidly behind the runestone, which has transcended its original cultural purposes and has "taken on a life of its own".--Wikipedia, Nov. 2011.
