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Santiago De Compostela, George Greenia
Santiago De Compostela, George Greenia
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
This collaborative literary history of Europe, the first yet attempted, unfolds through ten sequences of places linked by trade, travel, topography, language, pilgrimage, alliance, disease, and artistic exchange. The period covered, 1348-1418, provides deep context for understanding current developments in Europe, particularly as initiated by the destruction and disasters of World War II. We begin with the greatest of all European catastrophes: the 1348 bubonic plague, which killed one person in three. Literary cultures helped speed recovery from this unprecedented "ground zero" experience, providing solace, distraction, and new ideals to live by. Questions of where Europe begins and ends, then …
Introduction To "Mary Sinclair: A Modern Victorian", Suzanne Raitt
Introduction To "Mary Sinclair: A Modern Victorian", Suzanne Raitt
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
May Sinclair (1863-1946) was a bestselling novelist who was one of the first British women to go out to the Belgian front in 1914. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian draws on newly discovered manuscripts to tell the story of this woman whose emotional isolation bears witness to the great price Victorian women had to pay for their intellectual freedom.
Introduction: The Roman Army In Britain, Georgia L. Irby
Introduction: The Roman Army In Britain, Georgia L. Irby
Arts & Sciences Book Chapters
Excerpt from book chapter: "The Roman solider in Britain occupied his time in many ways. He bought barbarians. He built walls to delineate the borders of empire. He spend his evenings in the bas of the vici which inevitably cropped up around permanent forts or at the baths, gambling, or exercising, or gossiping..."