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The Trial Of Jacob Benjamin, Supplier To The French Army, 1792-93, Ronald Schechter
The Trial Of Jacob Benjamin, Supplier To The French Army, 1792-93, Ronald Schechter
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Santiago De Compostela, George Greenia
Santiago De Compostela, George Greenia
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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 …