Tag: Locating

Space, Place, and Motion Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City


Free Download Diana Bullen Presciutti, "Space, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City "
English | ISBN: 9004292977 | 2017 | 450 pages | PDF | 24 MB
Space, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City offers the first sustained comparative examination of the relationship between confraternal life and the spaces of the late medieval and early modern city. By considering cities large (Rome) and small (Aalst) in regions as disparate as Ireland and Mexico, the essays collected here seek to uncover the commonalities and differences in confraternal practice as they played out on the urban stage. From the candlelit oratory to the bustling piazza, from the hospital ward to the festal table, from the processional route to the execution grounds, late medieval and early modern cities, this interdisciplinary book contends, were made up of fluid and contested ‘confraternal spaces.’

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Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth-century Politics, Diplomacy and Culture


Free Download Gaynor Johnson, "Locating the Transatlantic in Twentieth-century Politics, Diplomacy and Culture"
English | ISBN: 135022782X | 2024 | 266 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Written in tribute to the work of Professor Alan Dobson, this collection of essays brings diplomacy and the Anglo-American relationship together, considering politics and foreign policy in tandem with cultural interactions. Uniquely placed to define exactly what transatlanticism is, and to explore the ways in which this idea has evolved in the last 150 years, this book asks to what extent can it be argued that there was a transatlantic world, how can it be defined and what was unique about it?

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