Jenny Jochens captures in fascinating detail the lives of women in pagan and early Christian Iceland and Norway: their work, sexual behavior, marriage customs, reproductive practices, familial relations, leisure activities, religious practices, and legal constraints and protections. Much of this information also applies to everyday life in the ......
This volume presents 15 studies occasioned by the 500th anniversary of the European discovery of America. It covers both the initial encounters between the Europeans and native Americans and the golden age of Hispanic philosophy that followed the discovery - specifically between 1500 and 1650.
Diversity and Similarity Across Europe and the United States
This volume explores the experience of nine Western European nations and the United States in this area of criminal justice policy and practice. It highlights diversities and similarities found in law enforcement priorities, punishment philosophy and practices, and media coverage. The authors also incorporate discourse on political, scholarly and ......
This text deciphers and explains the geopolitics of Europe. The first part deals with the general geopolitical tendencies in Europe, as well as the conflicting tendencies between culturism and universalism, between national-romantic ethnic primordialism and cosmopolitan post-national identities, between territory and escape from territory. The ......
This work lays out the theoretical background to Saint Thomas Aquinas' spirituality. It shows that his theology is clearly oriented towards contemplation and is as deeply spiritual as it is doctrinal. The text quotes often from Thomas' own texts and presents a clear understanding of Aquinas' views on nature, the person, human society, politics, ......
This text deciphers and explains the geopolitics of Europe. The first part deals with the general geopolitical tendencies in Europe, as well as the conflicting tendencies between culturism and universalism, between national-romantic ethnic primordialism and cosmopolitan post-national identities, between territory and escape from territory. The ......
Chronicling the last five months of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich from the viewpoints of those who were there, a detailed narrative draws on interviews, letters, and eyewitness accounts of Allied and Axis soldiers and citizens.
On June 5, 1918, the 2nd Division, made up of soldiers and marines, launched an offensive on German lines at Belleau Wood. Using sources on both sides of the Atlantic and personally interviewing many of those who fought at the wood, Asprey combines excitement with detail and accuracy in telling of this major battle of World War I. He describes the ......