Entangled East and West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Entangled East and West write by Simo Mikkonen. This book was released on 2018-12-17. Entangled East and West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite increasing scholarship on the cultural Cold War, focus has been persistently been fixed on superpowers and their actions, missing the important role played by individuals and organizations all over Europe during the Cold War years. This volume focuses on cultural diplomacy and artistic interaction between Eastern and Western Europe after 1945. It aims at providing an essentially European point of view on the cultural Cold War, providing fresh insight into little known connections and cooperation in different artistic fields. Chapters of the volume address photography and architecture, popular as well as classical music, theatre and film, and fine arts. By examining different actors ranging from individuals to organizations such as universities, the volume brings new perspective on the mechanisms and workings of the cultural Cold War. Finally, the volume estimates the pertinence of the Cold War and its influence in post-1991 world. The volume offers an overview on the role culture played in international politics, as well as its role in the Cold War more generally, through interesting examples and case studies.
East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries)
East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries) write by Rolando Minuti. This book was released on . East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. «History has to reorient», as the historian and sociologist Andre Gunder Frank observed. In the global or globalised age, a culture is no longer regarded as a discrete entity, but rather as a hybrid formation that interacts with other cultures in an incessant process of multidirectional exchange. Bringing together «Eastern» and «Western» case studies ranging from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, this volume reminds historians that to conduct transcultural analyses they need to be alert to the multiple ways, comic intents included, in which difference is negotiated within contacts and encounters – from selective appropriation to rejection or resistance.
The Prester John Legend between East and West During the Crusades
The Prester John Legend between East and West During the Crusades - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prester John Legend between East and West During the Crusades write by Ahmed M. A. Sheir. This book was released on 2022-06-22. The Prester John Legend between East and West During the Crusades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book considers the history of the Prester John legend and its impact on the Crusades, investigating its entangled mythical history between East and West during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The present study thus responds to the still pressing need for a comprehensive historical investigation of the twelfth and thirteenth crusading history of the legend and its impact on the Muslim-Crusader encounters, examining various Latin, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic accounts. It further reflects on new eastern aspects of the legend, presenting a new Arab scholarly view. This book first charts a pre-history of the legend in the late ancient Christian prophecy of the Last Emperor down to the emergence of the legend in the mid-twelfth century. Second, the work presents a historical discussion of the legend and its association with actual occurrences in the Far East and the Levant, analysing the legend history under the crusading crisis and the imperial papal schism in Europe. Meanwhile, the work considers the vague Prester John Letter addressed to Manuel I Komnenus, Byzantine Emperor, and its elaborate conception of a mythical eastern kingdom, revealing imaginative parallels on the wondrous East and legendary Eastern Christian kings in Arabic Muslim and Christian accounts of the Muslim geographer and cartographer al-Idrisi, the Coptic Abu al-Makarim and the Syriac Ibn al-'Ibri (Bar Hebraeus), among others. Moreover, the book examines how the legend impacted war and peace processes between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders during the Fifth Crusade against Egypt (1217-1221), revealing how it was mingled with Arabic and Eastern Christian prophecies at the time. The study concludes by investigating the perception of Prester John by the papal and European envoys to the Mongols in the thirteenth century, revealing how the legend was instrumentalised (and even weaponised) to establish a Latin-Mongol crusade through a parallel exploration of relevant Latin, Arabic and Syriac sources.
East and West Entangled (17.-21. Centuries)
East and West Entangled (17.-21. Centuries) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East and West Entangled (17.-21. Centuries) write by Rolando Minuti. This book was released on 2023. East and West Entangled (17.-21. Centuries) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Beyond the Divide
Beyond the Divide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Divide write by Simo Mikkonen. This book was released on 2015-10-01. Beyond the Divide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide. Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were institutions, organizations, and individuals who brought people from the East and the West together, joined by shared professions, ideas, and sometimes even through marriage. The volume aims at proving that the post-WWII histories of Western and Eastern Europe were entangled by looking at cases involving France, Denmark, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, and others.
