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This book provides powerful new insights into the history of Italy's long Risorgimento, by tracing the entanglements of the Mazzinian "international". This informal group of men and women crossed the boundary of the Channel and the boundary of class to speak a common language an…
Did the Crusades trigger significant intellectual activity? To what extent and in what ways did the Latin residents of the Crusader states acquire knowledge from Muslims and Eastern Christians? And how were the Crusader states influenced by the intellectual developments which ch…
Intellectual activity in Acre : socio-cultural characteristics -- Acre's Christian and Jewish centres of teaching and learning -- Language and translation -- Acre as a meeting point of juridical traditions -- The study of Islam -- Theological exchanges with Oriental Christians …
Did the Crusades trigger significant intellectual activity? To what extent and in what ways did the Latin residents of the Crusader states acquire knowledge from Muslims and Eastern Christians? And how were the Crusader states influenced by the intellectual developments which ch…
'The Morbid Age' opens a window onto this creative but anxious era, the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H.G. Wells, Marie Stopes and a host of others.
"Paul Mazgaj's study of the Young Right provides several fresh perspectives. First, he establishes that, very much like many of their contemporaries on the political Left, Brasillach, Maulnier, and their friends sought to translate the cultural authority they derived from their …
"Historians have traced the traditions of Islamic scholarship back to late antiquity. Muslim scholars were at work as early as 750 CE/AD, painstakingly copying their commentaries and legal opinions onto scrolls and codices. This venerable tradition embraced the modern printing p…