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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The master and Minerva: disputing women in French medieval culture Author: Solterer, Helen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Medieval Studies \| Women's Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer contends, in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language.Solterer investigates the debates over women between masters and their disciples. Across a bro . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: The royal image: illustrations of the Grandes chroniques de France, 1274-1422 Author: Hedeman, Anne Dawson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Medieval Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: The Grandes Chroniques de France is a vernacular, frequently illustrated history of the medieval French monarchs. Originally describing the lives of the kings from their origins in Troy in 1274 to the reign of Philip Augustus, it was updated in several stages to the life of Charles VI. Copied and am . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Louis XIII, the Just Author: Moote, A. Lloyd (Alanson Lloyd) Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Similar Items
4.	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
5.	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
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: King Charles I Author: Gregg, Pauline Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History \| European History Publisher's Description: This is a lucid, fair-minded account of a difficult and tragic man. Pauline Gregg has drawn heavily on original documents, letters, and speeches to show how Charles's heritage, upbringing, and personality, as well as his relationships with friends, advisors, and favorites, all took place against a b . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Seducing the French: the dilemma of Americanization Author: Kuisel, Richard F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| Popular Culture \| French Studies Publisher's Description: When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In an . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Myth, meaning, and memory on Roman sarcophagi Author: Koortbojian, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics \| Art \| Art History \| Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Michael Koortbojian brings a novel approach to his study of the role of Greek mythology in Roman funerary art. He looks at two myths - Aphrodite and Adonis and Selene and Endymion - not only with respect to their appearance on Roman sarcophagi, but also with regard to the myths' significance in the . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Peasants and king in Burgundy: agrarian foundations of French absolutism Author: Root, Hilton L Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| French Studies Publisher's Description: The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today. Hilton Root challenges traditional assumptions and proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between state and society. Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: ritual, space, and decoration Author: Clarke, John R 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics \| Art and Architecture \| Architectural History \| Art History Publisher's Description: In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house "with Roman eyes." Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints o . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between Marxism and Anarchism: Benoît Malon and French reformist socialism Author: Vincent, K. Steven Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| French Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Here is the first scholarly study of the life and thought of Benoît Malon (1841-1893), the most persuasive and visible spokesman for reformist socialism during the early years of the French Third Republic.Active in the generation of the French Left that came of age under the Second Empire, Malon was . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imaging Aristotle: verbal and visual representation in fourteenth-century France Author: Sherman, Claire Richter Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Nicole Oresme's translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Economics into French from Latin in the 1370s is the subject of Claire Sherman's stunningly illustrated book. Though both the text translations and their images have been studied separately, this is the first time they are . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Jews of modern France Author: Hyman, Paula 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| French Studies \| European Studies \| History \| European History \| Judaism \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Jews of Modern France explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth century, some forty thousand Jews lived in scattered communities on the peripheries of the French state, not consid . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: The king's midwife: a history and mystery of Madame du Coudray Author: Gelbart, Nina Rattner Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| French Studies \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Medicine Publisher's Description: This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The French worker: autobiographies from the early industrial era Author: Traugott, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Sociology \| European History \| Gender Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly convey the ambitions . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pivot of the universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 Author: Amanat, Abbas Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had occupied the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed remarkable resilience in the face of dilemmas and . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Khubilai Khan: his life and times Author: Rossabi, Morris Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies \| History \| Asian History \| China \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Living from 1215 to 1294 Khubilai Khan is one of history's most renowned figures. Here for the first time is an English-language biography of the man. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Obstinate Hebrews: representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 Author: Schechter, Ronald Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| European History \| Jewish Studies \| Intellectual History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power? In this unusuall . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: From the royal to the republican body: incorporating the political in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France Author: Melzer, Sara E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies \| European Literature \| Cinema and Performance Arts \| Politics Publisher's Description: In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The family on trial in revolutionary France Author: Desan, Suzanne 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| European Studies \| French Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a . . . [more] Similar Items