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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2013The Black Death
by Rosemary Horrox
This series provides texts central to medieval studies courses and focuses upon the diverse cultural, social and political conditions that affected the functioning of all levels of medieval society. Translations are accompanied by introductory and explanatory material and each volume includes a comprehensive guide to the sources' interpretation, including discussion of critical linguistic problems and an assessment of recent research on the topics covered. From 1348 to 1350 Europe was devastated by an epidemic that left between a third and one half of the population dead. This source book traces, through contemporary writings, the calamitous impact of the Black Death in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its spread across England from 1348 to 1349. Rosemary Horrox surveys contemporary attempts to explain the plague, which was universally regarded as an expression of divine vengeance for the sins of humankind. Moralists all had their particular targets for criticism. However, this emphasis on divine chastisement did not preclude attempts to explain the plague in medical or scientific terms. Also, there was a widespread belief that human agencies had been involved, and such scapegoats as foreigners, the poor and Jews were all accused of poisoning wells. The final section of the book charts the social and psychological impact of the plague, and its effect on the late-medieval economy.
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November 2012Kommunikation der Pest.
Seestädte des Ostseeraums und die Bedrohung durch die Seuche 1708–1713.
by Wahrmann, Carl Christian
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April 2021Among Fellow Primates
Views of a monkey researcher
by Volker Sommer
Man brings apocalyptic plagues to the world and his fellow primates – from global warming to the destruction of forests. While millions of monkeys and apes lived on Earth only a few decades ago, today many species are strongly endangered. In this book the anthropologist and monkey researcher Volker Sommer calls on us to finally protect the fundamental rights such as the right to life, freedom and physical integrity of the great apes. For all his seriousness, Sommer is also a great storyteller who deals with his own profession with humour, sympathy and in a highly instructive way.
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April 1985Die Pest in Bergamo
Und andere Novellen
by Jens Peter Jacobsen, Heinrich Vogeler, Mathilde Mann
Heinrich Vogeler, geboren 1872 in Bremen, war Maler, Grafiker, Architekt und Schriftsteller. Er war Teil der ersten Generation der Künstlerkolonie Worspwede, zu deren Mittelpunkt sein Wohnhaus für einige Jahre wurde. Heinrich Vogeler verstarb im Jahr 1942 unter tragischen Umständen im sowjetischen Exil.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2013Popular protest in late-medieval Europe
Italy, France and Flanders
by Samuel Kline Cohn
The documents in this stimulating volume span from 1245 to 1424 but focus on the 'contagion of rebellion' from 1355 to 1382 that followed in the wake of the plague. They comprise a diversity of sources and cover a variety of forms of popular protest in different social, political and economic settings. Their authors range across a wide political and intellectual horizon and include revolutionaries, the artistocracy, merchants and representatives from the church. They tell gripping and often gruesome stories of personal and collective violence, anguish, anger, terror, bravery, and foolishness. Of over 200 documents presented here, most have been translated into English for the first time, providing students and scholars with a new opportunity to compare social movements across Europe over two centuries, allowing a re-evaluation of pre-industrial revolts, the Black Death and its consequences for political culture and action. This book will be essential reading for those seeking to better understand popular attitudes and protest in medieval Europe.
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 2022Body Work
The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
by Melissa Febos,
In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the challenges it presents. How do we write about the relationships that have formed us? How do we describe our bodies, their desires and traumas? What does it mean to have your writing, or living, dismissed as "navel-gazing"-or else hailed as "so brave, so raw"? And to whom, in the end, do our most intimate stories belong? Drawing on her journey from aspiring writer to acclaimed author and writing professor-via addiction and recovery, sex work and academia-Melissa Febos has created a captivating guide to the writing life, and a brilliantly unusual exploration of subjectivity, privacy, and the power of divulgence. Candid and inspiring, Body Work will empower readers and writers alike, offering ideas-and occasional notes of caution-to anyone who has ever hoped to see their true self reflecting back from the open page.
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 2022Body Work
The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
by Melissa Febos,
In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the challenges it presents. How do we write about the relationships that have formed us? How do we describe our bodies, their desires and traumas? What does it mean to have your writing, or living, dismissed as "navel-gazing"-or else hailed as "so brave, so raw"? And to whom, in the end, do our most intimate stories belong? Drawing on her journey from aspiring writer to acclaimed author and writing professor-via addiction and recovery, sex work and academia-Melissa Febos has created a captivating guide to the writing life, and a brilliantly unusual exploration of subjectivity, privacy, and the power of divulgence. Candid and inspiring, Body Work will empower readers and writers alike, offering ideas-and occasional notes of caution-to anyone who has ever hoped to see their true self reflecting back from the open page.
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 2022
Body Work
The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
by Melissa Febos,
In this bold and exhilarating mix of memoir and writing guide, Melissa Febos tackles the emotional, psychological, and physical work of writing intimately while offering an utterly fresh examination of the storyteller's life and the challenges it presents. How do we write about the relationships that have formed us? How do we describe our bodies, their desires and traumas? What does it mean to have your writing, or living, dismissed as "navel-gazing"-or else hailed as "so brave, so raw"? And to whom, in the end, do our most intimate stories belong? Drawing on her journey from aspiring writer to acclaimed author and writing professor-via addiction and recovery, sex work and academia-Melissa Febos has created a captivating guide to the writing life, and a brilliantly unusual exploration of subjectivity, privacy, and the power of divulgence. Candid and inspiring, Body Work will empower readers and writers alike, offering ideas-and occasional notes of caution-to anyone who has ever hoped to see their true self reflecting back from the open page.
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January 2013Die schönsten Liebesgeschichten
by Albert Wesselski, Giovanni Boccaccio
Als im Jahr 1348 in Florenz die Pest ausbricht, fliehen zehn adlige Florentiner auf ein Landgut außerhalb der Stadt. Zum Zeitvetreib erzählen sie sich Geschichten, jeden Tag zu einem neuen Thema. So entstehen einhundert Novellen, die im »Dekameron« versammelt sind. Boccaccios Novellensammlung ist ein lebendiges und unterhaltsames Zeugnis der sinnenfrohen italienischen Renaissance und sprüht vor sinnlicher Erotik und Frivolität. Amouröses und Leidenschaftliches begegnet uns ebenso wie wahre Liebe und Betrug. Die vorliegende Auswahl präsentiert die schönsten Liebesgeschichten aus diesem Meisterwerk der Weltliteratur.
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January 2013Die schönsten Liebesgeschichten
by Giovanni Boccaccio, Albert Wesselski
Als im Jahr 1348 in Florenz die Pest ausbricht, fliehen zehn adlige Florentiner auf ein Landgut außerhalb der Stadt. Zum Zeitvetreib erzählen sie sich Geschichten, jeden Tag zu einem neuen Thema. So entstehen einhundert Novellen, die im »Dekameron« versammelt sind. Boccaccios Novellensammlung ist ein lebendiges und unterhaltsames Zeugnis der sinnenfrohen italienischen Renaissance und sprüht vor sinnlicher Erotik und Frivolität. Amouröses und Leidenschaftliches begegnet uns ebenso wie wahre Liebe und Betrug. Die vorliegende Auswahl präsentiert die schönsten Liebesgeschichten aus diesem Meisterwerk der Weltliteratur.
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October 2008Die Verlobten
Eine mailändische Geschichte aus dem siebzehnten Jahrhundert
by Alessandro Manzoni, Ernst Wiegand Junker, Ernst Wiegand Junker, Umberto Eco
»Ich habe Ihnen zu verkünden, daß Manzonis Roman alles überflügelt, was wir in dieser Art kennen … « (Goethe) Vor dem Hintergrund einer politisch bewegten Zeit erzählt Alessandro Manzoni die dramatische Geschichte des Liebespaares Renzo und Lucia, deren Heirat durch Intrigen, Kriege, Aufstände und Pest über Jahre verhindert wird. Die Verlobten ist der bedeutendste Roman der italienischen Literatur. Erschienen 1827 machte er in ganz Europa Furore und begründete den bis heute währenden Ruhm Manzonis. »Ein spannender, ja faszinierender Roman, dabei immer wieder durchzogen von einem feinen Humor.« Umberto Eco
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2011Bourgeois consumption
Food, space and identity in London and Paris, 1850–1914
by Rachel Rich
Bourgeois Consumption looks at how the middle classes in late nineteenth-century London and Paris used food and dining as forms of social expression and identity. This engaging treatise about how class and gender informed people's eating habits focuses on the complex interactions between bodies, ritual and identity. Forgoing the traditional food history territory of recipes and ingredients in favor of how people ate in different circles, Bourgeois Consumption explores the role of real and imagined meals in shaping Victorian lives. The perception of the middle classes as rigid and upright, found in the extensive pages of their etiquette books, is contrasted with a more flexible and spontaneous bourgeoisie, gleaned from the pages of their own colorful memoirs, diaries and letters, leading us on a lively journey into eating spaces, mealtimes, manners, and social interactions between diners. Further, contrasting Paris with London reveals some of the ways each city shaped its inhabitants but, more surprisingly, throws up a range of similarities that suggest the middle classes were, in fact, a transnational class. Rachel Rich's work will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the history of food, consumption and leisure, as well as to a broader audience curious about how the Victorian middle classes distinguished themselves through daily life and manners. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2021Religion, regulation, consumption
by John Lever, Johan Fischer
