The first volume of an experimental series on historiography devoted to the place of gesture and language in the historical narrative. Book 39: The Rise ...
Continue Reading →The rules governing competitions also vary enormously. It was the Institute of British Architects which first laid down guidelines in the 1830’s, formalising them in ...
Continue Reading →Michelet deliberately threw his intimate self into his narrative, convinced that this was the way to achieve the historian’s ultimate aim: the resurrection (or re-creation) ...
Continue Reading →Michelet deliberately threw his intimate self into his narrative, convinced that this was the way to achieve the historian’s ultimate aim: the resurrection (or re-creation) ...
Continue Reading → One of the greatest Romantic historians and immensely popular during his lifetime, Jules Michelet (1798-1874) fell into disfavour among the positivist historians who came ...
Continue Reading → Jules Michelet was a French historian. In his 1855 work, Histoire de France (History of France), he was the first historian to use and ...
Continue Reading → For women, the heart is everything, says in these pages one of the greatest historians of the French Revolution, Jules Michelet.But this sentence, far ...
Continue Reading → Jules Michelet (1798 – 1874) was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions.In his 1855 work, Histoire ...
Continue Reading →Published in 1494 in Basel, The Ship of Fools was soon translated into every major European language. It provoked a vast number of imitations and ...
Continue Reading →From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell—a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic—has played a pivotal role in western culture ...
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