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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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MedicineJanuary 2025Nursing the English from plague to Peterloo, 1665-1820
by Alannah Tomkins
This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience of both domestic and institutional nursing staff. Furthermore, it integrates nursing by men into the broader history of care as a constant if little-recognised presence. It finds that women and men undertook caring work to the best of their ability, and often performed well, despite multiple threats to nurse reputations on the grounds of gender norms and social status. Chapters consider nursing in the home, in general hospitals, in specialist institutions like the Royal Chelsea Hospital and asylums, plus during wartime, illuminated by multiple accounts of individual nurses. In these settings, it employs the sociological concept of 'dirty work' to contextualise the challenges to nurses and nursing identities.
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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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January 2021Gregor 3. Gregor und der Spiegel der Wahrheit
by Suzanne Collins, Joachim Knappe, Sylke Hachmeister
Im dritten Band der fesselnden Unterland-Chroniken, „Gregor und der Spiegel der Wahrheit“, verschlägt es Gregor erneut in die geheimnisvolle Welt unter New York City. Suzanne Collins, die Bestsellerautorin der "Tribute von Panem", webt eine Geschichte voller Spannung, Abenteuer und tiefgreifender Emotionen. Gregor steht vor seiner bisher schwierigsten Herausforderung: Eine tödliche Pest bedroht das Unterland, und nur er, begleitet von seiner unerschrockenen kleinen Schwester Boots und unter der wachsamen Aufsicht ihrer Mutter, kann das Heilmittel finden, von dem eine rätselhafte Prophezeiung spricht. Der Wettlauf gegen die Zeit führt Gregor und seine Gefährten durch einen unheimlichen Dschungel, bevölkert von gefährlichen Kreaturen und gierigen Pflanzen. Als die Krankheit auch seine Mutter und seine geliebte Fledermaus Ares befällt, wird ihm die volle Tragweite seiner Mission klar. Gregor muss alle seine Kräfte bündeln, um die Pest zu stoppen und das Unterland und seine Bewohner zu retten. Erlebe in dieser dramatischen Fortsetzung, wie Gregor sich seiner bisher größten Herausforderung stellt – einer tödlichen Pest, die das gesamte Unterland bedroht. Die persönliche Betroffenheit durch die Erkrankung seiner Mutter und Ares verleiht Gregors Mission eine dringliche, emotionale Tiefe. Klassische Fantasy-Elemente: Eine bildgewaltige Sprache entführt in eine Welt voller mutiger Helden, kolossaler Aufgaben und dem ewigen Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse. Kindgerechte und spannende Vermittlung wichtiger Themen wie Freundschaft, Mut, Tod und Krieg regt Kinder ab 10 Jahren zum Nachdenken an. Suzanne Collins beweist erneut ihr außergewöhnliches Talent, junge Leserinnen und Leser sowie Erwachsene gleichermaßen zu fesseln. „Gregor und der Spiegel der Wahrheit“ ist nicht nur ein Abenteuerroman, sondern auch eine Geschichte über die Kraft der Hoffnung und den unermüdlichen Einsatz für diejenigen, die wir lieben.
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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
