UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: A new world in a small place: church and religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188-1378 Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Religion \| Christianity \| European History \| Medieval History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Distinguished historian Robert Brentano provides an entirely new perspective on the character of the church, religion, and society in the medieval Italian diocese of Rieti from 1188 to 1378. Combing through a cache of previously ignored documents stored in a tower of the cathedral, he uses wills, li . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Writing and rebellion: England in 1381 Author: Justice, Steven 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Medieval Studies \| Medieval History \| European History Publisher's Description: In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactica . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: How fascism ruled women: Italy, 1922-1945 Author: De Grazia, Victoria Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Italy has been made; now we need to make the Italians," goes a familiar Italian saying. Mussolini was the first head of state to include women in this mandate. How the fascist dictatorship defined the place of women in modern Italy and how women experienced the Duce 's rule are the subjects of Victo . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Religion and society in a Cotswold vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780-1865 Author: Urdank, Albion M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History Publisher's Description: During the English Industrial Revolution, the Vale of Nailsworth was a rural-industrial settlement and a center of evangelical Nonconformity. Why did the transition to the factory system bring deindustrialization and social decline rather than long-term advancement? Albion Urdank investigates the mo . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The other economy: pastoral husbandry on a medieval estate Author: Biddick, Kathleen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: While the cereal agriculture of medieval Europe has been studied exhaustively, the pastoral resources and livestock husbandry of medieval estates have been seriously neglected. Kathleen Biddick's examination of one estate, Peterborough Abbey, during several decades before and after 1100 and the firs . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Looking for God in Brazil: the progressive Catholic Church in urban Brazil's religious arena Author: Burdick, John 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American Studies \| Christianity Publisher's Description: For a generation, the Catholic Church in Brazil has enjoyed international renown as one of the most progressive social forces in Latin America. The Church's creation of Christian Base Communities (CEBs), groups of Catholics who learn to read the Bible as a call for social justice, has been widely ha . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jews, medicine, and medieval society Joseph Shatzmiller Author: Shatzmiller, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Medieval History \| European History \| Medieval Studies \| Medicine Publisher's Description: Jews were excluded from most professions in medieval, predominantly Christian Europe. Bigotry was widespread, yet Jews were accepted as doctors and surgeons, administering not only to other Jews but to Christians as well. Why did medieval Christians suspend their fear and suspicion of the Jews, allo . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: An empire nowhere: England, America, and literature from Utopia to The tempest Author: Knapp, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| United States History \| Renaissance Literature \| European History Publisher's Description: What caused England's literary renaissance? One answer has been such unprecedented developments as the European discovery of America. Yet England in the sixteenth century was far from an expanding nation. Not only did the Tudors lose England's sole remaining possessions on the Continent and, thanks . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Visionary Women: ecstatic prophecy in seventeenth-century England Author: Mack, Phyllis Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| European History \| Christianity \| Women's Studies Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the new millennium Author: Miller, Donald E. (Donald Earl) 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion \| Sociology Publisher's Description: During the past thirty years the American religious landscape has undergone a dramatic change. More and more churches meet in converted warehouses, many have ministers who've never attended a seminary, and congregations are singing songs whose melodies might be heard in bars or nightclubs. Donald E. . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Advent project: the later-seventh-century creation of the Roman Mass proper Author: McKinnon, James W 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| Medieval Studies \| Classical Religions \| Christianity Publisher's Description: In his final accomplishment of an extraordinarily distinguished career, James W. McKinnon considers the musical practices of the early Church in this incisive examination of the history of Christian chant from the years a.d. 200 to 800. The result is an important book that is certain to have a long- . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ambrose of Milan: church and court in a Christian capital Author: McLynn, Neil 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Classical Religions \| Christianity \| Ancient History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: In this new and illuminating interpretation of Ambrose, bishop of Milan from 374 to 397, Neil McLynn thoroughly sifts the evidence surrounding this very difficult personality. The result is a richly detailed interpretation of Ambrose's actions and writings that penetrates the bishop's painstaking pr . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fascist modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 Author: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: European Studies \| History \| Intellectual History \| European History Publisher's Description: Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a ne . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Living letters of the law: ideas of the Jew in medieval Christianity Author: Cohen, Jeremy 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Religion \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: In Living Letters of the Law , Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how - and why - medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutic . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: A very social time: crafting community in antebellum New England Author: Hansen, Karen V Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Gender Studies \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: Karen Hansen's richly anecdotal narrative explores the textured community lives of New England's working women and men - both white and black - n the half century before the Civil War. Her use of diaries, letters, and autobiographies brings their voices to life, making this study an extraordinary co . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Romancing the past: the rise of vernacular prose historiography in thirteenth-century France Author: Spiegel, Gabrielle M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Medieval History \| European History \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In a poststructuralist study of thirteenth-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were act . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Papal patronage and the music of St. Peter's, 1380-1513 Author: Reynolds, Christopher A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| European History Publisher's Description: A new picture of music at the basilica of St. Peter's in the fifteenth century emerges in Christopher A. Reynolds's fascinating chronicle of this rich period of Italian musical history. Reynolds examines archival documents, musical styles, and issues of artistic patronage and cultural context in a f . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The view from Vesuvius: Italian culture and the southern question Author: Moe, Nelson 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: European Studies \| European History \| Intellectual History \| Politics \| European Literature Publisher's Description: The vexed relationship between the two parts of Italy, often referred to as the Southern Question, has shaped that nation's political, social, and cultural life throughout the twentieth century. But how did southern Italy become "the south," a place and people seen as different from and inferior to . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Preachers of the Italian ghetto Author: Ruderman, David B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Medieval History \| European History \| History Publisher's Description: By the mid-sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a result of the oppressive policies of Pope Paul IV and his successors.The sermons of Jewish preachers during this period provide a remarkable vantage point from which to view the early modern Jew . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rome before Avignon: a social history of thirteenth-century Rome Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Medieval History \| Religion \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Robert Brentano evokes papal Rome in all its paradox and complicated brilliance. From a detailed re-creation of the physical "town" with its series of brick campanili and green and purple mosaic floors, to the intrigues of the great families, like the Orsini and Colonna, the reader is guided through . . . [more] Similar Items