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L'Ibérie Chrétienne et le Maghreb (XIIe - XVe Siécles)

By: Charles_Emmanuell Dufourcq,Jacques Heers

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L'Ibérie Chrétienne et le Maghreb (XIIe - XVe Siécles)

By: Charles_Emmanuell Dufourcq,Jacques Heers

The late Ch.-E. Dufourcq was one of the first to map out the relations between the Christian and Muslim coastlands of the medieval western Mediterranean. These studies reveal the extent of the contribution he made to the subject, and the care and attention with which he handled the scattered documentary sources. There are three main themes to the volume: one group of articles focuses on the political and diplomatic aspects of the relations between Spain (Catalonia in particular) and the Maghreb (the lands of the modern Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia); a second is concerned more with commercial contacts and with a comparison of the economic conditions north and south of the Mediterranean, and with the day-to-day life of the sailors and merchants who formed the link between the two. A third theme, most prominent in the final articles, is the social and economic history of Catalonia itself, a subject to which he returned in the final years of his life. Le regretté Ch.-E. Dufourcq à été l’un des premiers à établir les grandes lignes des rapports existant entre les pays côtiers chrétiens et musulmans de la Méditerannée occidentale durant le Moyen Age. Ces études revelent l’éntendue de la contribution de l’auteur à ce sujet, ainsi que le soin et l’attention avec lesquels il en a manié le s sources documentaires dispersées. On retrouve trois themes principeaux au travers de ce volume : un groupe d’articles se concentre sur les aspects politiques et diplomatiques des rapports entre l’Espagne, plus particulièrement la Catalogne, et le Maghreb; le seconde s’attache plus aux contracts commercieaux, comparant les conditions économiques du Nord et du Sud de la Méditérranee, et à la vie quotidienne des marins et des marchands qui formaient le lien entre les deux. Un troisième théme, plus proéminent dans les derniers articles, écrits par l’auteur vers à la fin de sa vie, est celui de l’histoire sociale et économique de la Catalogne elle-

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Taylor & Francis

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1040233910

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The Barbary Corsairs

Pirates, Plunder, and Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1480-1580

By: Jacques Heers

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The Barbary Corsairs

Pirates, Plunder, and Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1480-1580

By: Jacques Heers

The Barbary corsairs first appeared to terrorize shipping at the end of the fifteenth century. These Muslim pirates sailed out of the ports of North Africa, primarily Sal?, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, a term derived from the name of its Berber inhabitants. Acting as officers of the sprawling Ottoman Empire, these pirates plundered the trading routes of the Mediterranean and sowed horror in the hearts of Christians everywhere. The most famous and powerful were the Barbarossa brothers, sons of a renegade Christian. The true founders of the Algiers Regency, they initially preyed on fishing vessels or defenseless merchantmen before growing bolder and embarking upon more brazen expeditions?attacking fortified ports and cities; raiding and kidnapping inhabitants of the African coast; and hunting ships from the Christian nations. This translation of Jacques Heers?s work follows the extraordinary exploits of the brothers, and those of other corsairs and profiteers, set against the turbulent backdrop of trade, commerce, and conflict throughout the Mediterranean as the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance. It is an enthralling adventure, robustly written, and it brings to life an age when travel and trade were perilous enterprises.

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Simon and Schuster

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1510731687

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A History of Disability

By: Henri-Jacques Stiker

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A History of Disability

By: Henri-Jacques Stiker

The first book to attempt to provide a framework for analyzing disability through the ages, Henri-Jacques Stiker's now classic A History of Disability traces the history of western cultural responses to disability, from ancient times to the present. The sweep of the volume is broad; from a rereading and reinterpretation of the Oedipus myth to legislation regarding disability, Stiker proposes an analytical history that demonstrates how societies reveal themselves through their attitudes towards disability in unexpected ways. Through this history, Stiker examines a fundamental issue in contemporary Western discourse on disability: the cultural assumption that equality/sameness/similarity is always desired by those in society. He highlights the consequences of such a mindset, illustrating the intolerance of diversity and individualism that arises from placing such importance on equality. Working against this thinking, Stiker argues that difference is not only acceptable, but that it is desirable, and necessary. This new edition of the classic volume features a new foreword by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder that assesses the impact of Stiker’s history on Disability Studies and beyond, twenty years after the book’s translation into English. The book will be of interest to scholars of disability, historians, social scientists, cultural anthropologists, and those who are intrigued by the role that culture plays in the development of language and thought surrounding people with disabilities.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472126903

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In Search of Sacred Time

Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend

By: Jacques Le Goff

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In Search of Sacred Time

Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend

By: Jacques Le Goff

How The Golden Legend shaped the medieval imagination It is impossible to understand the Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The Golden Legend, the most popular medieval collection of saints' lives. Assembled in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a bestseller. In Search of Sacred Time is the first comprehensive history and interpretation of this crucial book. Jacques Le Goff, who was one of the world's most renowned medievalists, provides a lucid and compelling account that shows how The Golden Legend Christianized time itself, reconciling human and divine temporality. Authoritative, eloquent, and original, In Search of Sacred Time is a major reinterpretation of a book that is central to comprehending the medieval imagination.

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Princeton University Press

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0691204543

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The Birth of Europe

By: Jacques Le Goff

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The Birth of Europe

By: Jacques Le Goff

In this ground-breaking new study,Jacques Le Goff, arguably theleading medievalist of his generation, presents his view of theprimacy of the Middle Ages in the development of Europeanhistory. "[A] superb and necessary book. This provocative assessmentfrom a lifetime of scholarship might help us to place ourselves,not just territorially, but in that other precious element ofhistory: time." The Guardian "A book that never fails to be informative, readable andprovocative. Le Goff... has been the bravest and best of championsfor medieval history. This book... is in every sense aninspiration." BBC History Magazine Praised by prominent figures in Europe and history including:Rt Hon Christopher Patten, CH, Former Member of the EuropeanCommission, and Neil Kinnock, Vice-President, EuropeanCommission.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405137266

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Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages

By: Jacques Le Goff

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Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages

By: Jacques Le Goff

When I studied these manuals, a source then little exploited, I noticed that the academic, like the merchant, was justified by reference to the labor he accomplished. The novelty of the academics thus ultimately appeared to lie in their role as intellectual workers. My attention was therefore drawn to two notions whose ideological avatars I attempted to trace through the concrete social conditions in which they developed. These notions were labor and time. Under these two heads I maintain two open files, from which some of the articles collected here are drawn. I am still persuaded that attitudes toward work and time are essential aspects of social structure and function, and that the study of such attitudes offers a useful tool for the historian who wishes to examine the societies in which they develop."--Preface, page xii

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University of Chicago Press

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0226470814

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The Barbary Corsairs

Pirates, Plunder, and Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1480-1580

By: Jacques Heers

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The Barbary Corsairs

Pirates, Plunder, and Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1480-1580

By: Jacques Heers

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Simon and Schuster

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1510731687

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Louis XI

By: Jacques Heers

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Louis XI

By: Jacques Heers

Une biographie de référence, puisée aux sources les plus récentes de la recherche historique, au ton alerte d'une fresque, et débarrassant Louis XI de sa légende. En s'appuyant sur une documentation inédite, Jacques Heers réussit à proposer une lecture neuve du règne et, surtout, de la personnalité de Louis XI. Après un décryptage passionnant de la propagande, du contrôle politique et de ses relais dans une France qui s'impose au premier plan des puissances européennes, il analyse le "capitalisme royal d'Etat", mettant au jour les ressorts financiers de l'action du roi. Qu'il s'agisse du règlement des affaires politiques, diplomatiques ou juridiques, de la conduite de la guerre ou des rapports avec les puissances d'Eglise, c'est un Louis XI singulièrement décapé des clichés qui est dépeint ici, sur le ton alerte d'une fresque.

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Tempus Perrin

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2262065845

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The Peasant of the Garonne

An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time

By: Jacques Maritain

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The Peasant of the Garonne

An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time

By: Jacques Maritain

At eighty-five, Jacques Maritain, the most distinguished Catholic philosopher of the twentieth century, has written what he offers as his last book, and it turns out to be a shocker. The peasant, as Maritain calls himself in the title, is a man who calls a spade a spade; and a storm of controversy descended immediately on the book's publication in France, as both Right and Left reeled from the force of Maritain's criticism.The Peasant of the Garonne is a sharp attack on the new philosophy, hoping to cool off the fever for change that Maritain believes is imperiling the church's traditional spirituality and even the substance of doctrine. There is sardonic humor in his treatment of Teilhardians, phenomenologists, existentialists, new-style biblical critics, and clerical Freudians, but Maritain is deeply serious in warning that their capitulation to fashioniable trends represents a kind of kneeling before the world.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1610975642

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Philosophy in a Time of Terror

Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida

By: Giovanna Borradori

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Philosophy in a Time of Terror

Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida

By: Giovanna Borradori

The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act ever perpetrated. This book marks an unprecedented encounter between two of the most influential thinkers of our age as here, for the first time, Habermas and Derrida overcome their mutual antagonism and agree to appear side by side. As the two philosophers disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In this process, we watch two of the greatest intellects of the century at work.

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0226066649

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Book's by Jacques Heers

L'Ibérie Chrétienne et le Maghreb (XIIe - XVe Siécles)

L'Ibérie Chrétienne et le Maghreb (XIIe - XVe Siécles)

The Barbary Corsairs

The Barbary Corsairs

A History of Disability

A History of Disability

In Search of Sacred Time

In Search of Sacred Time

The Birth of Europe

The Birth of Europe

Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages

Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages

The Barbary Corsairs

The Barbary Corsairs

Louis XI

Louis XI

The Peasant of the Garonne

The Peasant of the Garonne

Philosophy in a Time of Terror

Philosophy in a Time of Terror

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