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Silkworm International Co., Ltd.
Silkworm Books is a general publisher based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We specialize in select markets and quality English-language books, primarily on topics related to mainland Southeast Asia. Founded in 1989, we are the foremost publisher of serious books on Thailand in English. To date, we have published more than 300 English titles. We have licensed English-language rights, purchased translation rights, and less frequently commissioned writers. Our books are distributed in North America, and U.K., through the University of Washington Press, and in Asia by local distributors.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013The world of El Cid
Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest
by Simon Barton, Richard Fletcher
Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037-65), his son Alfonso VI (1065-1109) and the latter's grandson Alfonso VII (1126-57). The fourth chronicle is a biography of the hero Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christian and Muslim alike. Covers the fascinating interaction of the Muslim and Christian worlds, each at the height of their power. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes.
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January 1977Historia Integra.
Festschrift für Erich Hassinger zum 70. Geburtstag.
by Herausgegeben von Fenske, Hans; Herausgegeben von Reinhard, Wolfgang; Herausgegeben von Schulin, Ernst
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September 1998Die Historia Augusta
Eine Sammlung römischer Kaiserbiographien aus der Zeit Konstantins
by Lippold, Adolf / Herausgegeben von Waldherr, Gerhard H.
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January 1987
Historia socialis et oeconomica
Festschrift für Wolfgang Zorn zum 65. Geburtstag
by Herausgegeben von Kellerbenz, Hermann; Herausgegeben von Pohl, Hans
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March 1985Die Eroberung Amerikas
Das Problem des Anderen
by Tzvetan Todorov, Wilfried Böhringer
"»Wenngleich jedes Datum, das zwei Epochen gegeneinander abgrenzen soll, immer willkürlich bleibt, so ist doch keines besser geeignet, den Beginn des modernen Zeitalters zu markieren, als das Jahr 1492, das Jahr, in dem Colón den Atlantischen Ozean überquert. Wir alle sind indirekte Nachkommen Colóns, mit ihm beginnt unsere Genealogie - sofern das Wort Beginn überhaupt einen Sinn hat. Seit 1492 sind wir, wie es Las Casas ausgedrückt hat, ›in dieser so neuen und keiner anderen vergleichbaren Zeit‹ (Historia de las Indias, I, 88*). Seit diesem Datum ist die Welt geschlossen (obwohl das Universum unendlich wird), ›die Welt ist klein‹, wie Colón selbst ganz erschieden feststellt (›Carta rarísima‹, 7. 7. 1503); die Menschen haben nun die Ganzheit entdeckt, deren Bestandteil sie sind, während sie bis dahin ein Teil ohne Ganzes waren. Dieses Buch soll ein Versuch sein, durch die Lektüre einiger Texte, deren Autoren meine Personen sein werden, zu verstehen, was an diesem Tag und im Verlauf des darauffolgenden Jahrhunderts geschehen ist.« (T. Todorov)"
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013Late Merovingian France
by Paul Fouracre, Richard A. Gerberding
This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronicles and saint's lives rigorously to reveal new insights into the nature and significance of sanctity, power and power relationships. The book makes available a range of 7th- and early 8th-century texts, five of which have never before been translated into English. It opens with a broad-ranging explanation of the historical background to the translated texts and then each source is accompanied by a full commentary and an introductory essay exploring its authorship, language and subject matter. The sources are rich in the detail of Merovingian political life. Their subjects are the powerful in society and they reveal the successful interplay between power and sanctity, a process which came to underpin much of European culture throughout the early Middle Ages.
