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The History

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East, controlling the Balkans south of the Danube and all of Asia Minor into Armenia and Syria. By 1079 it had become a politically unstable state half the size, menaced by powerful ...

The Vulgate bible. Volume V: The minor prophetical books and maccabees

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

This is the fifth volume of a projected six-volume Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century ce, the Vulgate Bible permeated the Western Christian tradition through the twentieth century. It influenced literature, art, music ...

Reading latin epitaphs

a handbook for beginners

This compact handbook enables users to quickly and accurately read Latin epitaphs in churches, no matter what their knowledge of the language is. John Parker has reproduced the text of 52 church memorials in Latin, and this edition is illustrated with photographs of eight of ...

Tweets and the streets

social media and contemporary activism

Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of ...

Categorías. De Interpretatione/ Aristóteles. Isagoge/ Porfirio

Las dos obras recogidas en este volumen —de capital importancia tanto por sí mismas como por su extraordinaria influencia a lo largo de la historia de la filosofía occidental— inauguran el conjunto de los escritos de Aristóteles sobre lógica, que fueron agrupados por lo menos ...

The old english boethius

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

The Old English Boethius boldly refashions in Anglo-Saxon guise a great literary monument of the late-antique world, The Consolation of Philosophy. Condemned to death for treason around 525 ce, the Roman scholar Boethius turned to philosophy to transform his personal distress into a powerful meditation ...

The mind of Thucydides

The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly's Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of composition or second-guess its accuracy, it treated it as a work of art deserving ...

The World Today Series 2012: Nordic, Central, & Southeastern Europe

This is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present. It is broken down into individual chapters on each country dealing with its geography, people, history, political system, constitution, parliament, decentralization and states if a federation ...

Jenofonte

Anábasis IV

La historia narrada por Jenofonte, especialmente el libro IV, tiene todos los ingredientes de un relato de aventuras: una travesía muy arriesgada por tierras ignotas, altas dosis de compañerismo y afan de superación personal, para acabar en un emotivo y anhelado final. Estos ingredientes hacen ...

Bleakonomics

a heartwarming introduction to financial catastrophe, the job crisis and environmental destruction

Bleakonomics is a short and darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability. Written for anyone who is wondering how we've come to this point, Rob Larson holds ...

Il romanzo di Alessandro

Vol.II

"II romanzo di Alessandro" è tra le opere dell'antichità greca più tradotte: dalla sua prima comparsa in età ellenistica è stata copiata e riscritta una infinità di volte, non solo nella sua lingua originaria, ma anche in una molteplicità di lingue e dialetti di ...

The World Today Series 2012: Latin America

A comprehensive, timely and entertaining account of the political, cultural and economic dynamics of more than 30 discrete countries of the Western Hemisphere, this book is updated each year, providing students with the most recent information possible. The information is presented in an objective, balanced ...

Dios en el nuevo mundo

El profesor John Lynch nos ofrece una visión original e innovadora de una historia tan compleja como es la del cristianismo en América Latina. Una historia cambiante, ligada a la evolución social del continente, que comenzó en los tiempos en que la cruz llegó asociada ...

Perfidy and Passion

reintroducing the Iliad

Homer’s Iliad is often considered a poem of blunt truthfulness, his characters’ motivation pleasingly simple. A closer look, however, reveals a complex interplay of characters who engage in an awful lot of lies. Beginning with Achilles, who hatches a secret plot to destroy his ...

The World Today Series 2012: The USA & the World

Instant interpretive history is a difficult and demanding task, and certainly more of an art than some would suggest. USA and the World endeavors to describe not only what happened, but to put events in the context of the past and to criticize policy actions ...

Los grandes personajes de la Historia

¿Qué grandes personajes cambiaron la historia? ¿Qué figuras revolucionaron la sociedad de su época? ¿Cuáles fueron los hombres y las mujeres que marcaron la diferencia e influyeron en las generaciones que les sucedieron? De Ramsés II a Bill Gates, pasando por Cleopatra, Marco Polo, Napoleón ...

Cultural history in Europe

institutions. Themes. Perspectives

Cultural History in Europe, Jörg Rogge Jörg Rogge (ed.) Cultural History in Europe Institutions – Themes – Perspectives 2011, 260 S., kart., 29,80 € ISBN 978-3-8376-1724-5 Reihe Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften Bestellen What is the current state of discussion in Cultural History? Which European institutions engage exclusively in ...

Interpretazione giuridica

L'opera vuole essere una originale ricostruzione del concetto e dell'idea di diritto a partire da un approccio non filosofico ma del Costituzionalista. Lo scopo è di offrire un sussidio adeguato allo studente anzitutto, quanto autorevole. Si qualifica per la completezza (ampio spazio viene ...

Diritto tributario internazionale

manuale

Il Manuale nasce dalle esperienze di scuola e di professione, trattando in modo organico il diritto tributario internazionale, negli aspetti di maggiore interesse teorici e pratici di ordine generale e nella seconda parte l’ordinamento italiano connesso con la internazionalità (dalle fonti internazionali, OCSE e ...

teoria e critica del Diritto tributario

istituzioni, dottrina, norme

Il volume si occupa della tematica del diritto tributario, muovendo dalla formazione del diritto tributario, per proseguire con l'accertamento dal punto di vista della riscossione, il rapporto giuridico d'imposta e rapporto processuale.