Peasants, Warriors, and Wives - 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 Peasants, Warriors, and Wives write by Keith Moxey. This book was released on 2004-04. Peasants, Warriors, and Wives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Peasants, Warriors, and Wives, Keith Moxey examines woodcut images from the German Reformation that have often been ignored as a crude and inferior form of artistic production. In this richly illustrated study, Moxey argues that while they may not satisfy received notions of "art," they nevertheless constitute an important dimension of the visual culture of the period. Far from being manifestations of universal public opinion, as a cursory acquaintance with their subject matter might suggest, such prints were the means by which the reformed attitudes of the middle and upper classes were disseminated to a broad popular audience.
Segregation, Integration, Assimilation
Segregation, Integration, Assimilation - 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 Segregation, Integration, Assimilation write by Derek Keene. This book was released on 2009. Segregation, Integration, Assimilation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whilst most historical investigations of ethnic and religious minorities concentrate on a single town or particular group, this volume offers a much broader geographical and chronological view. Looking at towns across western, and particularly, eastern Europe from the late antique period to the fifteenth century, these papers illustrate the changing nature of questions of identity, perception, legal status and relations between groups, together with the ways in which these elements were affected by the external political regimes and ideologies to which towns were inevitably subjected.
Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870
Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870 - 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 Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870 write by David M. Hopkin. This book was released on 2003. Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Concentrating on the militarised borderlands of eastern France, this book examines the disjuncture between the patriotic expectations of elites and the sentiments expressed in folksongs, folktales and popular imagery, in which issues of sexuality, violence and separation took far greater prominence. Hopkin follows the soldier through his life-cycle, from greenhorn recruit to grizzled veteran, to show how the peasant conscript was separated from his previous life and re-educated in military mores (and the response that this transformation elicited from his family and community)."--BOOK JACKET.
Anger's Past
Anger's Past - 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 Anger's Past write by Barbara H. Rosenwein. This book was released on 2018-10-18. Anger's Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Books have rarely been written about the history of any emotion except love and shame, and this volume is the very first on the meaning of anger in the Middle Ages. Well aware of modern theories about the nature of anger, the authors consider the role of anger in the social lives and conceptual universes of a varied and significant cross-section of medieval people: monks, saints, kings, lords, and peasants. They are careful to distinguish between texts (the sources on which historians must rely) and the reality behind the texts. They are sensitive, as well, to the differences between ideals and normative behavior. The first eight essays in the volume focus on anger in the Latin West, while the last two turn to the fringes of Europe (the Celtic and Islamic worlds) for purposes of comparison. Barbara H. Rosenwein concludes the volume with an essay on modern conceptions of anger and their implications for understanding its role in the Middle Ages. The essays reveal much that is new about medieval rituals of honor and status and illuminate the rationales behind such seemingly irrational practices as cursing, feuding, and the punishment of blinding.
Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe - 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 Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe write by Charles Zika. This book was released on 2021-10-11. Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians.
