Early 12th-century France was a violent and militaristic society dominated by the values of an aggressive class of warriors - a culture divided into those who worked, those who prayed, and those who bore arms. A civilization of extraordinary richness and sophistication emerged, and perhaps no contemporary account describes this development more ......
Wrested from the rule of the Venetians, the island of Cyprus took on cultural shadings of enormous complexity as a new province of the Ottoman empire. This title uncovers the island society as seen through local law courts, public works, and charitable institutions.
A former Yugoslav ambassador to the UN describes the Croatian fascists' program against the Serbs and Vatican complicity in the "final solution" to the Serbian orthodox heresy. Speaks to the fury of today's hatreds. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Hoss was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. This title offers a translation of Hoss' memoirs into English.
Early 12th-century France was a violent and militaristic society dominated by the values of an aggressive class of warriors - a culture divided into those who worked, those who prayed, and those who bore arms. A civilization of extraordinary richness and sophistication emerged, and perhaps no contemporary account describes this development more ......
For years, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel has wrestled with his haunting memories of the Holocaust, his work animated by the struggle between silence and revelation. This book focuses on the literary, theological and philosophical issues that emerge from his written work.
Seeking to move away from the stereotypical views of the Italian Jew in the early modern period as Shylockian userer or mysterious astrologer, these papers address such topics as Italian Jewish preaching, the Kabbalah, Jewish historiography, messianic expectations, and Jewish ghetto culture.
Seeking to move away from the stereotypical views of the Italian Jew in the early modern period as Shylockian userer or mysterious astrologer, these papers address such topics as Italian Jewish preaching, the Kabbalah, Jewish historiography, messianic expectations, and Jewish ghetto culture.
''An excellent introduction to and sampling of the developing genre of microhistory . . . In essence these historians begin their analysis `from below,' viewing the ordinary peoples ignored in the annals of European history.''--Catholic Historical Review.Selections from Quaderni Storici.
