Historiography category: 1227 books
by Alessandro Barbero
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Costantino è il primo imperatore cristiano. È il sovrano che si è convertito prima della battaglia di Ponte Milvio, dopo aver visto in cielo la croce con la scritta In hoc signo vinces, e che ha messo fine alle persecuzioni, concedendo libertà di culto ai cristiani. Ma cosa sappiamo realmente...
by Francisco Gijón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2013
La guerra de sucesión que tiene lugar tras la muerte sin descendencia de Carlos II provoca una seria convulsión en España. Los Austrias son sucedidos por los Borbones, y con ellos llegan las Luces y la Ilustración al país. Nuevas ideas vienen a perturbar todos los cimientos del Antiguo...
La crítica de la crítica
Inconsecuentes, insustanciales, impotentes, prepotentes y equidistantes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 11, 2017
"La Segunda República fue un régimen ilegítimo", "la Guerra Civil la iniciaron las hordas rojas en Asturias en 1934", "Franco no fue un reaccionario de ultraderecha" o "la Dictadura fue el germen de la democracia" son algunos ejemplos de las tesis que una...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
There have been serious debates between historians, novelists and filmmakers as to how best present historical narratives. When writers and filmmakers talk of using historical research with integrity, what exactly do they mean? Integrity and Historical Research examines this question in detail. The...
Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d’Amérique
Suivi d’éclaircissements sur la Floride, sur la colonie Française au Scioto sur quelques colonies Canadiennes et sur les Sauvages ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: December 10, 2018
LE nouvel Ouvrage que je présente au Public est le fruit de trois ans de voyages et de résidence aux États-Unis, dans des circonstances de temps et dans une situation d’esprit bien différentes de celles de mon voyage en Turquie....
Lorsqu’on 1783, je partais de Marseille, c’était...
Les ruines
ou Méditation sur les Révolutions des Empires ( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: December 10, 2018
La onzième année du règne d’Abd-ul-Hamîd, fils d’Ahmed, empereur des Turks, au temps où les Russes victorieux s’emparèrent de la Krimée et plantèrent leurs étendards sur le rivage qui mène à Constantinople, je voyageais dans l’empire des Ottomans, et je parcourais les provinces...
Introduction aux oeuvres du Père André
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Nous avons deux Biographies du P. André, l’une de l’abbé Guyot, dans l’Éloge historique qui précède les Œuvres posthumes (Paris, 4 vol., 1766), l’autre du P. Tabaraud, ancien oratorien, dans l’article consacré au P. André, tome II de la Biographie universelle. En rapprochant ces...
by Unn Falkeid
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Unn Falkeid considers the work of six fourteenth-century writers who waged literary war against the Avignon papacy’s increasing claims of supremacy over secular rulers—a conflict that engaged contemporary critics from every corner of Europe. She illuminates arguments put forth by Dante, Petrarch, William of Ockham, Catherine of Siena, and others.
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
What do you think of when you consider the Middle Ages?
Knights in armor and damsels in distress?
Vikings plundering monasteries?
Religious dissenters burning at the stake?
The dead bodies piling up as war, famine, and plague devastated Europe?
Think again.
While all these are part of the...
by A. Ferrier, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Extrait : "La place de Grève, qui servait de marché aux Parisiens depuis une époque très-reculée, fut cédée parle roi Louis VII aux bourgeois de la ville de Paris, dans la première moitié du XIIe siècle, moyennant une somme de septante livres tournois. En 1357, le Prévost des marchands, Étienne...
Los valencianos y el legado foral
Historia, sociedad, derecho
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 21, 2018
El interés por los Fueros, su historia y su época nunca ha desaparecido del todo. Una muestra de ello es este libro, donde un grupo de profesores de la Universitat de València reúnen un conjunto de reflexiones sobre aspectos muy diversos del legado foral. Por una parte, se estudia el origen y...
by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
In 1776, writer Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. Although little used today, pamphlets were an important medium for the spread of ideas in the 16th through 19th centuries.
Originally published anonymously,...
The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield
History, Science and God
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2011
Once recalled only for The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) and Christianity and History (1949), Sir Herbert Butterfield's contribution to western culture has undergone an astonishing revaluation over the past twenty years. What has been left out of this reappraisal is the man himself. Yet the...