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The Decipherment of Linear B

The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael ...

Cultural hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe

the ottomans and mexicans

This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the Reformation. Carina L. Johnson chronicles the resultant creation ...

Aztecs

In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its last unthreatened years. It provides a vividly dramatic analysis of ...

Imperial Germany and the Great War, 1914-1918

This book explores the impact of the First World War on Imperial Germany and examines military aspects of the conflict, as well as the diplomacy, politics, and industrial mobilization of wartime Germany. Including maps, tables, and illustrations, it also offers a rich portrait of life ...

The Cambridge History of Christianity

Vol.5: Eastern Christianity

This volume brings together in one compass the Orthodox Churches - the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian, Armenian, Ethiopian, Egyptian and Syrian Churches. It follows their fortunes from the late Middle Ages until modern times - exactly the period when their history has been most ...

The Cambridge History of Christianity

Vol.3: Early Medieval Christianities c.600 - c.1100

The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere ...

The Cambridge History of Christianity

Vol.2: Constantine to c.600

This volume in the Cambridge History of Christianity presents the 'Golden Age' of patristic Christianity. After episodes of persecution by the Roman government, Christianity emerged as a licit religion enjoying imperial patronage and eventually became the favoured religion of the empire. The articles in this ...

The Cambridge History of Christianity

Vol.6: Reform and expansion 1500-1660

This authoritative volume presents the history of Christianity from the eve of the Protestant Reformation to the height of Catholic Reform. In addition to in-depth coverage of the politics and theology of various reform movements in the sixteenth century, this book discusses at length the ...

The Cambridge History of Christianity

Vol.4: Christianity in Western Europe c.1100 - c.1500

During the early middle ages, Europe developed complex and varied Christian cultures, and from about 1100 secular rulers, competing factions and inspired individuals continued to engender a diverse and ever-changing mix within Christian society. This volume explores the wide range of institutions, practices and experiences ...

The Cambridge History of Christianity

Vol.9: World Christianities c.1914 . c.2000

The twentieth century saw changes as dramatic as any in Christian history. The Churches suffered serious losses, both through persecution and through secularisation, in what had been for several centuries their European heartlands, but grew fast in Africa and parts of Asia. This volume provides ...

The Cambridge History of Christianity

Vol.1: Origins to Constantine

The first of the nine volume Cambridge History of Christianity series, Origins to Constantine provides a comprehensive overview of the essential events, persons, places and issues involved in the emergence of the Christian religion in the Mediterranean world in the first three centuries. Over thirty ...

The Cambridge History of Christianity

Vol.8: World Christianities c.1815 - c. 1914

This is the first scholarly treatment of nineteenth-century Christianity to discuss the subject in a global context. Part I analyses the responses of Catholic and Protestant Christianity to the intellectual and social challenges presented by European modernity. It gives attention to the explosion of new ...

The Cambridge History of Christianity

Vol.7: Enlightenment, reawakening and revolution 1660-1815

During the tumultuous period of world history from 1660 to 1815, three complex movements combined to bring a fundamental cultural reorientation to Europe and North America, and ultimately to the wider world. The Enlightenment transformed views of nature and of the human capacity to master ...

La rebelión militar de la Generalidad de Cataluña contra la República

el 6 de octubre de 1934 en Barcelona

En la tarde del 6 de octubre de 1934, Luis Companys, presidente de la Generalidad de Cataluña, proclamó el Estado catalán dentro de la Republica española; acto que coincidió con una huelga general revolucionaria declarada por Alianza Obrera y con una insurgencia social proletaria que ...

L'attuazione delle obbligazioni in internet

La navigazione in Rete espone all’ingerenza di terzi. Al civilista, si chiede di dar conto della tutela della sicurezza/protezione in Rete e della distribuzione dei connessi obblighi, oneri e rischi, tra le parti del rapporto obbligatorio. Ma anche gli altri profili, della concretizzazione ...

Anatomía de un instante

«Este libro es un ensayo en forma de crónica o una crónica en forma de ensayo. Este libro no es una ficción. Este libro es la anatomía de un instante: el instante en que Adolfo Suárez permaneció sentado en la tarde del 23 de febrero ...

La Gran Catequesis

La "Oratio catechetica magna" de Gregorio de Nisa, escrita hacia el año 386, que ahora aparece en lengua castellana, es una de las síntesis más exactas de la dogmática cristiana de los primeros siglos. Tiene una originalidad propia. Mientras que las demás síntesis de este ...

El campesinado ático

y el desarrollo de la democracia ateniense

En estas páginas se intenta dilucidar las articulaciones establecidas entre las pautas socioeconómicas y culturales de los labradores y las condiciones de su inserción política e institucional como ciudadanos de pleno derecho. Esta historia del campesinado está marcada por diversas mutaciones que a lo largo ...

The last empire

the final days of the Soviet Union

On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end ...

Abuso de Derecho

en civil, comercial, procesal, laboral y administrativo

Lo realmente apasionante en el estudio del abuso de derecho está en que pone en evidencia la existencia de diversas opiniones sobre los aspectos esenciales de la ciencia jurídica que comienza por el concepto mismo de lo que es el Derecho, su íntima relación con ...