Author: George Ioan BrătianuPublisher:
ISBN: 9789734501366
Category : Romania
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
An Enigma and a Miracle of History
Author: George Ioan BrătianuPublisher:
ISBN: 9789734501366
Category : Romania
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004303855
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
An analysis of post-communist identity reconstructions under the impact of experiences such as migration and displacement, collective memory and trauma, and cultural self-colonization. The book facilitates a mutually productive dialogue between postcolonialism and post-communism, mapping the rich terrain of contemporary East-Central European creative writing and visual art.
The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
Author: Włodzimierz BorodziejPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000096181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Intellectual Horizons offers a pioneering, transnational and comparative treatment of key thematic areas in the intellectual and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. For most of the twentieth century, Central and Eastern European ideas and cultures constituted an integral part of wider European trends. However, the intellectual and cultural history of this diverse region has rarely been incorporated sufficiently into nominally comprehensive histories of Europe. This volume redresses this underrepresentation and provides a more balanced perspective on the recent past of the continent through original, critical overviews of themes ranging from the social and conceptual history of intellectuals and histories of political thought and historiography, to literary, visual and religious cultures, to perceptions and representations of the region in the twentieth century. While structured thematically, individual contributions are organized chronologically. They emphasize, where relevant, generational experiences, agendas and accomplishments, while taking into account the sharp ruptures that characterize the period. The third in a four-volume set on Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, it is the go-to resource for understanding the intellectual and cultural history of this dynamic region.
Romania
Author: Lucian BoiaPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861891037
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Romania occupies a unique position on the map of Eastern Europe. It is a country that presents many paradoxes. In this book the preeminent Romanian historian Lucian Boia examines his native land's development from the Middle Ages to modern times, delineating its culture, history, language, politics and ethnic identity. Boia introduces us to the heroes and myths of Romanian history, and provides an enlightening account of the history of Romanian Communism. He shows how modernization and the influence of the West have divided the nation - town versus country, nationalists versus pro-European factions, the elite versus the masses - and argues that Romania today is in chronic difficulty as it tries to fix its identity and envision a future for itself. The book concludes with a tour of Bucharest, whose houses, streets and public monuments embody Romania's traditional values and contemporary contradictions.
Witchcraft in Romania
Author: Ioan Pop-CurşeuPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031152220
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus on the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first part presents aspects of earthly justice, religious and secular, analysing the codes of law, trials and verdicts, and underlining the differences between Transylvania on one hand, and Moldavia and Wallachia on the other. The second part is concerned with divine justice, describing apocalyptic texts that talk about the pains of witches in hell, but also the ensembles of religious painting where, in vast compositions of the Last Judgment, various punishments for the sin of witchcraft are imagined.
Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
Author: Wojciech RoszkowskiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317475941
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1208
Book Description
Drawing on newly accessible archives as well as memoirs and other sources, this biographical dictionary documents the lives of some two thousand notable figures in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. A unique compendium of information that is not currently available in any other single resource, the dictionary provides concise profiles of the region's most important historical and cultural actors, from Ivo Andric to King Zog. Coverage includes Albania, Belarus, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Moldova, Ukraine, and the countries that made up Yugoslavia.
Christ and the Scriptures
Author: Adolph SaphirCentennial Pamphlets: The Hebrew Bible and the Israelitish Nation
Author: American Bible SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
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