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Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum - Origins, Reception and Significance (Hardcover): Grzegorz... Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum - Origins, Reception and Significance (Hardcover)
Grzegorz Bartusik, Radoslaw Biskup, Jakub Morawiec
R4,246 Discovery Miles 42 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The studies collected in this volume investigate the origins and context of the Gesta and will enable researchers to better understand and evaluate the historical veracity of the text / This will appeal to all those interested in Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum / This volume contains essays from leading researchers bring forward the latest studies in this topic.

The Mobility-Security Nexus and the Making of Order - An Interdisciplinary and Historicizing Intervention (Hardcover): Heidi... The Mobility-Security Nexus and the Making of Order - An Interdisciplinary and Historicizing Intervention (Hardcover)
Heidi Hein-Kircher, Werner Distler
R4,228 Discovery Miles 42 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book explores the complex, multi-directional connections of the "mobility/security nexus" in the re-ordering of states, empires, and markets in historical perspective. Contributing to a vivid academic debate, the book offers in-depth studies on how mobility and security interplay in the emergence of order beyond the modern state. While mobilities studies, migration studies and critical security studies have focused on particular aspects of this relationship, such as the construction of mobility as a political threat or the role of infrastructure and security, we still lack comprehensive conceptual frameworks to grasp the mobility/security nexus and its role in social, political, and economic orders. With authors drawn from sociology, International Relations, and various historical disciplines, this transdisciplinary volume historicizes the mobility-security nexus for the first time. In answering calls for more studies that are both empirical and have historical depth, the book presents substantial case studies on the nexus, ranging from the late Middle Ages right up to the present-day, with examples from the British Empire, the Russian Empire, the Habsburg Empire, Papua New Guinea, Rome in the 1980s or the European Union today. By doing so, the volume conceptualizes the mobility/security nexus from a new, innovative perspective and, further, highlights it as a prominent driving force for society and state development in history. This book will be of much interest to researchers and students of critical security studies, mobility studies, sociology, history and political science.

Sources in the History of Psychiatry, from 1800 to the Present (Paperback): Chris Millard, Jennifer Wallis Sources in the History of Psychiatry, from 1800 to the Present (Paperback)
Chris Millard, Jennifer Wallis
R1,219 Discovery Miles 12 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Looks at a range of different sources, both institutional and private, usual and unusual, that can be used in writing the history of psychiatry and interrogates and analyses how they can be used so that the reader can get a sense of the range and complexity of the subject. Every student of history has to engage with sources and the history of medicine is very solidly popular - it will be useful for students to see how historians use different sources to interrogate one aspect of the history of medicine. There is nothing out there that discusses the range and breadth of sources available for the study of such a subject that is often difficult to interrogate at other than an institutional level, but which is becoming increasingly important.

Building Students' Historical Literacies - Learning to Read and Reason With Historical Texts and Evidence (Paperback, 2nd... Building Students' Historical Literacies - Learning to Read and Reason With Historical Texts and Evidence (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Jeffery D. Nokes
R1,241 Discovery Miles 12 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

* Up-to-date with current literature and research * The text is accessible and approachable, and filled with practical advice that speaks directly to teachers (preservice and practicing) * More resources for implementation in the classroom and new questions for reflection * Includes connections to film, fiction, and other media

Old Stories and Contemporary Issues in Films about Antiquity and the Middle Ages - Idealistic Thinking, Sex, Lies, and Video... Old Stories and Contemporary Issues in Films about Antiquity and the Middle Ages - Idealistic Thinking, Sex, Lies, and Video Political Agendas (Paperback)
Luigi Andrea Berto
R1,207 Discovery Miles 12 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Based on rigorous film-analysis and historical comparisons, this book explorers the narrative filmmakers create by summarising complex historical issues, but which can lead to misconceptions about the past. Analysis of films such as Alexander Nevsky, Kryzact (1960)-also known as Knights of the Teutonic Order, The Black Knight, El Cid, The Great Warrior Skanderberg, Braveheart, The Seventh Seal, Spartacus, Gladiator, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Saladin, Kingdom of Heaven and 300 offers students a broad range of examples to consider alongside the history of antiquity and medieval Europe. This book explores how the past is portrayed in the present and offers students and general readers a framework to unpick 'historical' films to see how the facts are woven into fiction.

Navigating Memorialization and Commemoration on U.S. Campuses - Approaches to Crisis Recovery (Hardcover): Mahauganee D. Shaw... Navigating Memorialization and Commemoration on U.S. Campuses - Approaches to Crisis Recovery (Hardcover)
Mahauganee D. Shaw Bonds
R4,206 Discovery Miles 42 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on rich qualitative data, as well as theoretical and conceptual frameworks, this text explores how institutions of higher education in the US can effectively remember incidents of campus crisis through physical memorials and commemoration. Recognizing memorialization as a process of group and individual recovery, the book foregrounds the performative functions of physical memorials, and highlights their utility for the extended campus community. Profiling existing campus memorials in the US, and offering insights from students, faculty, community members, and the loved ones of those memorialized, the text illustrates how institutional decisions and long-term strategy can serve to effectively navigate the politics of memorialization, helping communities move beyond incidents of collective trauma. This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in emergency management, student affairs practice and higher education administration, and commemorative literature more broadly. Those specifically interested in heritage studies, public history, and American history will also benefit from this book.

Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education - Proceedings of the International Conference on History,... Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education - Proceedings of the International Conference on History, Social Sciences, and Education (ICHSE 2021), Malang, Indonesia, 11 September 2021 (Hardcover)
Ronal Ridhoi, Arif Subekti, Francis M. Navarro, Hariyono
R3,781 Discovery Miles 37 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a collection of articles resulting from the International Conference on History, Social Sciences, and Education (ICHSE), which was held on 11 September 2021. The Department of History of Malang State University choose "Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education" as the main topic, and elaborates on five subthemes: 1) new trends in historical research; 2) formulation of new perspectives in history, social sciences, and education; 3) transdisciplinary research in history, social sciences, and education; 4) innovations in historical and social science learning during pandemics; 5) New ideas in the research and practice of social sciences and education. This seminar was open to international academics. This book presents new perspectives on methodology, methods, theory, and themes on history, social sciences, and education research from various perspectives on methodology and historiography. Now, history is not only about politics, economy and military, but also about environment, social, education, culinary, and so on. This book will be useful for students, historians, and the general public, in recording the development of Indonesian historical writing perspectives.

Evidence in Action between Science and Society - Constructing, Validating, and Contesting Knowledge (Hardcover): Sarah Ehlers,... Evidence in Action between Science and Society - Constructing, Validating, and Contesting Knowledge (Hardcover)
Sarah Ehlers, Stefan Esselborn
R4,223 Discovery Miles 42 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the reliability of scientific knowledge. The tensions between competing paradigms, different bodies of knowledge and the relative hierarchies between them are a crucial element of the historical and contemporary dynamics of scientific knowledge production. The negotiation of evidence is at the heart of this process. Starting from the premise that evidence constitutes a central, but also essentially contested concept in contemporary knowledge-based societies, this volume focuses on how evidence is generated and applied in practice-in other words, on "evidence in action." The contributions analyze and compare different evidence practices within the field of science and technology, how they interlink with different forms of power, their interaction with and impact on the legal and political domain, and their relationship to other, more heterodox forms of evidence that challenge traditional notions of evidence. In doing so, this volume provides much-needed context and historical background to contemporary debates on the so-called "post-truth" society. Evidence in Action is the perfect resource for all those interested in the relationship between science, technology, and the role of knowledge in society.

Africa, Empire and World Disorder - Historical Essays (Paperback): A.G. Hopkins Africa, Empire and World Disorder - Historical Essays (Paperback)
A.G. Hopkins
R1,331 Discovery Miles 13 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume brings together important articles from the Cambridge historian A. G. Hopkins and reflect the enlargement and evolution of historical studies during the last half century. The essays cover four of the principal historiographical developments of the period: the extraordinary revolution that has led to the writing of non-Western indigenous history; the revitalization of new types of imperial history; the now ubiquitous engagement with global history, including a reinterpretation of American Empire, and the current revival of economic history after several decades of neglect.

Deposing Monarchs - Domestic Conflict and State Formation, 1500-1700 (Hardcover): Cathleen Sarti Deposing Monarchs - Domestic Conflict and State Formation, 1500-1700 (Hardcover)
Cathleen Sarti
R4,206 Discovery Miles 42 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Deposing Monarchs analyses depositions in Northern Europe between 1500 and 1700 as a type of frequent political conflict which allows to present new ideas on early modern state formation, monarchy, and the conventions of royal rulership. The book revises earlier conceptualizations of depositions as isolated, unique events that emerged in the context of national historiographies. An examination of the official legitimations of depositions reveals that in times of crisis, concepts of tradition, rule of law, and political consensus are much more influential than the divine right of kings. Tracing the similarities and differences of depositions in Northern Europe transnationally and diachronically, the book shows monarchical succession as more non-linear than previously presumed. It offers a transferable model of the different elements needed in depositions, such as opposition to the monarch by multiple groups in a realm, the need for a convincing rival candidate, and a legitimation based on political traditions or religious ideas. Furthermore, the book bolsters our understanding of authority and rule as a constant process of negotiation, adding to recent research on political culture, and on the cultural history of politics.

Old Stories and Contemporary Issues in Films about Antiquity and the Middle Ages - Idealistic Thinking, Sex, Lies, and Video... Old Stories and Contemporary Issues in Films about Antiquity and the Middle Ages - Idealistic Thinking, Sex, Lies, and Video Political Agendas (Hardcover)
Luigi Andrea Berto
R4,210 Discovery Miles 42 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Based on rigorous film-analysis and historical comparisons, this book explorers the narrative filmmakers create by summarising complex historical issues, but which can lead to misconceptions about the past. Analysis of films such as Alexander Nevsky, Kryzact (1960)-also known as Knights of the Teutonic Order, The Black Knight, El Cid, The Great Warrior Skanderberg, Braveheart, The Seventh Seal, Spartacus, Gladiator, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Saladin, Kingdom of Heaven and 300 offers students a broad range of examples to consider alongside the history of antiquity and medieval Europe. This book explores how the past is portrayed in the present and offers students and general readers a framework to unpick 'historical' films to see how the facts are woven into fiction.

Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History - Alt/Histories (Paperback): Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History - Alt/Histories (Paperback)
Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia
R1,335 Discovery Miles 13 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories, historians, sociologists, neuroscientists, lawyers, cultural critics, and literary and media scholars come together to offer an interconnected and comparative collection for understanding how contemporary far-right, neo-fascist, Alt-Right, Identitarian and New Right movements have proposed revisions and counter-narratives to accepted understandings of history, fact and narrative. The innovative essays found here bring forward urgent questions to diverse public, academic, and politically minded audiences interested in how historical understandings of race, gender, class, nationalism, religion, law, technology and the sciences have been distorted by these far-right movements. If scholars of the last twenty years, like Francis Fukuyama, believed that neoliberalism marked an 'end of history', this volume shows how the far right is effectively threatening democracy and its institutions through the dissemination of alt-facts and histories.

Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (Hardcover): Laura Hilton, Avinoam Patt Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Laura Hilton, Avinoam Patt
R902 Discovery Miles 9 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable suffering. Yet it has also been used to teach tolerance, empathy, resistance, and hope. Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust provides a starting point for teachers in many disciplines to illuminate this crucial event in world history for students. Using a vast array of source materials-from literature and film to survivor testimonies and interviews-the contributors demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and painful subjects within their specific historical and social contexts. Each chapter provides pedagogical case studies for teaching content such as antisemitism, resistance and rescue, and the postwar lives of displaced persons. It will transform how students learn about the Holocaust and the circumstances surrounding it.

The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures - Concepts, Problems, and the Aesthetics of... The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures - Concepts, Problems, and the Aesthetics of Postcatastrophic Narration (Hardcover)
Anna Artwinska, Anja Tippner
R4,236 Discovery Miles 42 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Afterlife of the Shoah in Central and Eastern European Cultures is a collection of essays by literary scholars from Germany, the US, and Central Eastern Europe offering insight into the specific ways of representing the Shoah and its aftereffects as well as its entanglement with other catastrophic events in the region. Introducing the conceptual frame of postcatastrophe, the collected essays explore the discursive and artistic space the Shoah occupies in the countries between Moscow and Berlin. Postcatastrophe is informed by the knowledge of other concepts of "post" and shares their insight into forms of transmission and latency; in contrast to them, explores the after-effects of extreme events on a collective, aesthetic, and political rather than a personal level. The articles use the concept of postcatastrophe as a key to understanding the entangled and conflicted cultures of remembrance in postsocialist literatures and the arts dealing with events, phenomena, and developments that refuse to remain in the past and still continue to shape perceptions of today's societies in Eastern Europe. As a contribution to memory studies as well as to literary criticism with a special focus on Shoah remembrance after socialism, this book is of great interest to students and scholars of European history, and those interested in historical memory more broadly.

The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory (Hardcover): Chiel van den Akker The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory (Hardcover)
Chiel van den Akker
R6,231 Discovery Miles 62 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the conceptual issues that history as a discipline and mode of thought gives rise to that offers the reader both historical and systematic treatments of these issues, as well as addressing their contemporary relevance. Written by an international team of experts who both discuss the basis of their topic and also present their own view, thereby offering the reader a cutting-edge contribution while ensuring their chapters are of interest to both to students and specialists in the field of historical theory. An indispensible companion to the study of history that provides essential reading for anyone interested in the reflection on the nature of history and our historical existence.

The Practice of History in India - Essays in Search of a New Past (Hardcover): Anirudh Deshpande The Practice of History in India - Essays in Search of a New Past (Hardcover)
Anirudh Deshpande
R4,206 Discovery Miles 42 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the last few decades, professional historians have raised important questions regarding the theories, methods and practices of history extant since the earliest times. Oral and Visual History have assumed a new importance in our times. This book presents seven essays on history as it can be practised productively in India. It is pedagogically important to students and teachers of history in India. Meant primarily for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students, it will also be appreciated by the lay public. Readers will certainly rethink their historical perspectives in response to the issues of theory raised critically in this book. This book is co-published with Aakar Books, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Sources in the History of Psychiatry, from 1800 to the Present (Hardcover): Chris Millard, Jennifer Wallis Sources in the History of Psychiatry, from 1800 to the Present (Hardcover)
Chris Millard, Jennifer Wallis
R3,799 Discovery Miles 37 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Looks at a range of different sources, both institutional and private, usual and unusual, that can be used in writing the history of psychiatry and interrogates and analyses how they can be used so that the reader can get a sense of the range and complexity of the subject. Every student of history has to engage with sources and the history of medicine is very solidly popular - it will be useful for students to see how historians use different sources to interrogate one aspect of the history of medicine. There is nothing out there that discusses the range and breadth of sources available for the study of such a subject that is often difficult to interrogate at other than an institutional level, but which is becoming increasingly important.

Information and Power in History - Towards a Global Approach (Paperback): Ida Nijenhuis, Marijke Van Faassen, Ronald Sluijter,... Information and Power in History - Towards a Global Approach (Paperback)
Ida Nijenhuis, Marijke Van Faassen, Ronald Sluijter, Joris Gijsenbergh, Wim De Jong
R1,336 Discovery Miles 13 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The relationship between information and power is a relevant subject for all times. Today's perceived 'information revolution' has caused information to become a separate object of study during the last two decades for several disciplines. As the contemporary perspective is dominant, information history as a discipline of its own has not yet crystallized. In bringing together studies around a new research agenda on the relationship between information and power across time and space, presenting various governance regimes, media, materials, and modes of communication, this book forces us to rethink the prospects and challenges for such a new discipline.

In Praise of Historical Anthropology - Perspectives, Methods, and Applications to the Study of Power and Colonialism... In Praise of Historical Anthropology - Perspectives, Methods, and Applications to the Study of Power and Colonialism (Paperback)
Alexandre Coello de la Rosa, Josep Lluis Mateo Dieste
R1,331 Discovery Miles 13 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Praise of Historical Anthropology is based on a fundamental conviction: the study of society cannot be undertaken without considering the weight of history and separations between disciplines in academics need to be bridged for the benefit of knowledge. Anthropology cannot be limited to situating its object in its immediate context; rather its true subject of study is society as a historical problem. The book describes the complex attempts to transcend this separation, presenting perspectives, methodologies and direct applications for the study of power relations and systems of social classification, paying special attention to the reconstruction of colonial situations. Following the maxim expounded by John and Jean Comaroff, this book will help us understand that historical anthropology is not a matter of merging the two disciplines of anthropology and history, but rather considering societies in their historically situated dimension and applying the tools of the social and human sciences to the analysis. In this vein, the book reviews the complex attempts to bridge disciplinary separations and theoretical proposals coming from very different traditions. The text, consequently, opens up hegemonic perspectives to include 'other anthropologies.'

Building Students' Historical Literacies - Learning to Read and Reason With Historical Texts and Evidence (Hardcover, 2nd... Building Students' Historical Literacies - Learning to Read and Reason With Historical Texts and Evidence (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Jeffery D. Nokes
R4,228 Discovery Miles 42 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

* Up-to-date with current literature and research * The text is accessible and approachable, and filled with practical advice that speaks directly to teachers (preservice and practicing) * More resources for implementation in the classroom and new questions for reflection * Includes connections to film, fiction, and other media

Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture - Knowledge and Representation of the World in Italy from the Sixteenth to the... Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture - Knowledge and Representation of the World in Italy from the Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Guido Abbattista
R4,229 Discovery Miles 42 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Global Perspectives in Modern Italian Culture presents a series of unexplored case studies from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, each demonstrating how travellers, scientists, Catholic missionaries, scholars and diplomats coming from the Italian peninsula contributed to understandings of various global issues during the age of early globalization. It also examines how these individuals represented different parts of the world to an Italian audience, and how deeply Italian culture drew inspiration from the increasing knowledge of world 'Otherness'. The first part of the book focuses on the production of knowledge, drawing on texts written by philosophers, scientists, historians and numerous other first-hand eyewitnesses. The second part analyses the dissemination and popularization of knowledge by focussing on previously understudied published works and initiatives aimed at learned Italian readers and the general public. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern and modern European history, as well as those interested in global history.

The Muqaddimah - An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition): Ibn Ibn Khaldun The Muqaddimah - An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition (Abridged, Paperback, Abridged edition)
Ibn Ibn Khaldun; Edited by N.J. Dawood; Translated by Franz Rosenthal; Introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence
R658 R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Save R111 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in the United States and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation first appeared in 1969. This Princeton Classics edition of the abridged version includes Rosenthal's original introduction as well as a contemporary introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence. This volume makes available a seminal work of Islam and medieval and ancient history to twenty-first century audiences.

Colonising New Zealand - A Reappraisal (Hardcover): Paul Moon Colonising New Zealand - A Reappraisal (Hardcover)
Paul Moon
R4,209 Discovery Miles 42 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Colonising New Zealand offers a radically new vision of the basis and process of Britain's colonisation of New Zealand. It commences by confronting the problems arising from subjective and ever-evolving moral judgements about colonisation and examines the possibility of understanding colonisation beyond the confines of any preoccupations with moral perspectives. It then investigates the motives behind Britain's imperial expansion, both in a global context and specifically in relation to New Zealand. The nature and reasons for this expansion are deciphered using the model of an organic imperial ecosystem, which involves examining the first cause of all colonisation and which provides a means of understanding why the disparate parts of the colonial system functioned in the ways that they did. Britain's imperial system did not bring itself into being, and so the notion of the Empire having emerged from a supra-system is assessed, which in turn leads to an exploration of the idea of equilibrium-achievement as the Prime Mover behind all colonisation-something that is borne out in New Zealand's experience from the late eighteenth century. This work changes profoundly the way New Zealand's colonisation is interpreted, and provides a framework for reassessing all forms of imperialism.

New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History - Boundaries, Experiences, and Sensemaking (Paperback): Maja Gildin Zuckerman,... New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History - Boundaries, Experiences, and Sensemaking (Paperback)
Maja Gildin Zuckerman, Jakob Egholm Feldt
R1,326 Discovery Miles 13 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entangled in different historical situations. Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, discontinuities, or ruptures of dominant grand historical narratives of Jewish cultural history, this book unfolds situations and events, where Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history became useful, meaningful, and acted upon as a site of causal explanations. Inspired by classical American pragmatism and more recent French pragmatism, we present a new perspective on Jewish cultural history in which the experiences, problems, and actions of people are at the center of reconstructions of historical causalities and projections of future horizons. The book shows how boundaries between Jewish and non-Jewish are not a priori given but are instead repeatedly experienced in a variety of situations and then acted upon as matters of facts. In different ways and on different scales, these studies show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal linkages that we call history.

A Humanist on the Frontier - The Life Story of a Sixteenth-Century Central European Pastor (Hardcover): Marcell Sebok A Humanist on the Frontier - The Life Story of a Sixteenth-Century Central European Pastor (Hardcover)
Marcell Sebok
R4,220 Discovery Miles 42 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A Humanist on the Frontier explores the remarkable life of Sebastian Ambrosius, a sixteenth-century Lutheran minister and intellectual from Kesmark (now Kezmarok) in present-day Slovakia, formerly on the borderland of the Kingdom of Hungary. Through an examination of Ambrosius' publications and correspondence, this book throws new light on the dynamics of urban communities in Upper Hungary, communication within the humanist Republic of Letters in both Central European and wider European networks, and ecclesiastical controversies. Adopting methods of microhistory and cultural history, it also reconstructs Ambrosius' life by positioning him in various contexts that trace his relationship to, and interpretations of, themes of power, tradition, vocation, communication and identity. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern European history, as well as those interested in microhistory, cultural history, and the Republic of Letters.

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