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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: A medieval mirror, Speculum humanae salvationis, 1324-1500 Author: Wilson, Adrian Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Art \| Architecture Publisher's Description: The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or "Mirror of Human Salvation," is the only medieval work that exists in illuminated manuscripts, in blockbook editions of the mid-fifteenth century, and in sixteen later incunabula. The authors have provided lavishly illustrated accounts of the manuscripts and inclu . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	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
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Coronations: medieval and early modern monarchic ritual Author: Bak, János M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is an enlightened response to the . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: High-Tech Europe: the politics of international cooperation Author: Sandholtz, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: A study of cooperative efforts in the high-tech industries of Europe. Sandholtz examines why collaboration came late to these countries, how protective walls came down, how countries work together in economically sensitive areas.Governments have recognized for decades the dynamic role played by micr . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nuns as artists: the visual culture of a medieval convent Author: Hamburger, Jeffrey F 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art \| Religion \| Gender Studies \| Art History \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from a previously unknown group of late-fifteenth-century devotional drawings made by a Benedictine nu . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	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
7.	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
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe Author: Brantingham, P. Jeffrey 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Archaeology \| European History \| European History \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This volume brings together prominent archaeologists working in areas outside Western Europe to discuss the most recent evidence for the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the origin of modern humans. With a wealth of primary data from archaeological sites and regions tha . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The dynamics of the breakthrough in Eastern Europe: the Polish experience Author: Staniszkis, Jadwiga Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| European History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an inside . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe Author: Lévesque, Jacques Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Decades of crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II Author: Berend, T. Iván (Tibor Iván) 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Only by understanding Central and Eastern Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century can we hope to make sense of the conflicts and crises that have followed World War II and, after that, the collapse of Soviet-controlled state socialism. Ivan Berend looks closely at t . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Shaping history: ordinary people in European politics, 1500-1700 Author: Te Brake, Wayne Ph Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: As long as there have been governments, ordinary people have been acting in a variety of often informal or extralegal ways to influence the rulers who claimed authority over them. Shaping History shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from p . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	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
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Antonia Canova and the politics of patronage in revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe Author: Johns, Christopher M. S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| European Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: The Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) was Europe's most celebrated artist from the end of the ancien régime to the early years of the Restoration, an era when the traditional relationship between patrons and artists changed drastically. Christopher M. S. Johns's refreshingly original stud . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The origins of backwardness in Eastern Europe: economics and politics from the Middle Ages until the early twentieth century Author: Chirot, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Reaching back centuries, this study makes a convincing case for very deep roots of current Eastern European backwardness. Its conclusions are suggestive for comparativists studying other parts of the world, and useful to those who want to understand contemporary Eastern Europe's past. Like the rest . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Medieval stereotypes and modern antisemitism Author: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Medieval Studies \| Jewish Studies \| Medieval History \| European History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: The twelfth century in Europe, hailed by historians as a time of intellectual and spiritual vitality, had a dark side. As Robert Chazan points out, the marginalization of minorities emerged during the "twelfth-century renaissance" as part of a growing pattern of persecution, and among those stigmati . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Crusading peace: Christendom, the Muslim world, and Western political order Author: Mastnak, Tomaž Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Medieval History \| Middle Eastern History \| Christianity \| Medieval Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Social Science \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power struct . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century: a genealogy of modernity Author: Hundert, Gershon David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| European History \| Jewish Studies \| Religion Publisher's Description: Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world - an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| History \| Islam \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Gothic enterprise: a guide to understanding the Medieval cathedral Author: Scott, Robert A 1935- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Medieval Studies \| Architecture \| European Studies \| Christianity \| European History \| Architectural History \| Sociology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical i . . . [more] Similar Items