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“assunta pisani”

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  • Euro-Librarianship

    Shared Resources, Shared Responsibilities

    Edited by Assunta Pisani ...
    Euro-Librarianship focuses on strategies for working toward cooperation between libraries throughout Europe and the United States to provide the best access and information to research materials as possible. Chapters by several authors in their original languages (with English abstracts) give this book a unique international appeal. Common difficulties such as fiscal constraints and rising book ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    A magisterial narrative account of the creation and consumption of all forms of ‘culture’ across the European continent over the last two hundred years.This compelling, wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market – ... Read more

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  • Cities of Strangers

    Making Lives in Medieval Europe

    by Miri Rubin ...
    Series series The Wiles Lectures
    Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some city-states enjoyed considerable autonomy which allowed them to legislate on how newcomers might settle and become citizens in support of a common good. Such communities invited bankers, merchants, physicians, notaries and ... Read more

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  • Transnational Neofascism in France and Italy

    by Andrea Mammone ...
    This book describes the establishment, evolution, and international links of the extreme right in one of the main Western European areas. Andrea Mammone details the long journey in the development of right-wing extremism in France and Italy, emphasizing the transfer, exchange, and borrowing of ideals, personnel, and strategies, and the similarities among neofascist movements, activists, and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ballet

    Edited by Marion Kant ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Ballet is a paradox: much loved but little studied. It is a beautiful fairy tale; detached from its origins and unrelated to the men and women who created it. Yet ballet has a history, little known and rarely presented. These great works have dark sides and moral ambiguities, not always nor immediately visible. The daring and challenging quality of ballet as well as its perceived 'safe' nature is ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism

    Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme

    Edited by Tommaso Di Carpegna Falconieri, Pierre Savy, Lila Yawn ...
    Series series Collection de l'École française de Rome
    This book presents the proceedings of the international conference “The Middle Ages in the Modern World,” held in Rome November 21-24, 2018. Attended by more than a hundred participants of different ages, educational backgrounds, and places of origin, the conference constituted a landmark in the study of medievalism: the historical discipline, now in full bloom, that investigates the ways in which ... Read more

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  • The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c.1860–1920

    by Martyn Lyons ...
    As war and mass emigration across oceans increased the distances between ordinary people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many of them, previously barely literate and unaccustomed to writing, began to communicate on paper. This fascinating account explores this surge of ordinary writing, how people met the new challenges of literacy and the importance of scribal culture to the ... Read more

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  • Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

    Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe

    by Gary Ferguson ...
    From the tenor of contemporary discussions, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely contemporary phenomenon. Not so, argues Gary Ferguson in Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome.Making use of substantial fragments of trial transcripts Gary Ferguson brings the story of a same-sex marriage to life in striking detail. He unearths an ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860

    Edited by Franco Piperno, Simone Caputo, Emanuele Senici ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between sound and space within these urban contexts, demonstrating how music and sound were ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Mime, Music and Drama on the Eighteenth-Century Stage

    The Ballet d'Action

    by Edward Nye ...
    The 'ballet d'action' was one of the most successful and controversial forms of theatre in the early modern period. A curious hybrid of dance, mime and music, its overall and overriding intention was to create drama. It was danced drama rather than dramatic dance, musical drama rather than dramatic music. Most modern critical studies of the ballet d'action treat it more narrowly as stage dance and ... Read more

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  • The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe

    by Paul M. Dover ...
    Series Book 62 - New Approaches to European History
    This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on information management. These ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Power of Images

    Siena, 1338

    by Patrick Boucheron ...
    Where can the danger be lurking? Two soldiers are huddled together, one gazing up at the sky, the other darting a sideward glance. They derive a tacit reassurance from their weapons, but they are both in their different ways alone and scared. They were painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, and they seem symptomatic of a state of emergency: the year was 1338, and the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD