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Das Leben des Melchior Khlesl verlauft spektakular. Geboren Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts in Wien, bringt es der Sohn eines protestantischen Backermeisters zum katholischen Generalreformator in Osterreich und wird Bischof von Wien. Spater schafft er den Aufstieg zum Gunstling-Minister des Kaisers und Kardinal. Der Emporkommling wird zu einem gerissenen Staatsmann, der wie Richelieu fur seinen Herrscher mit Vernunft und Intrige europaweit regiert. Die Herausforderungen sind gewaltig. Er streitet im Romisch-Deutschen Reich des Jahrzehnts vor dem Dreiigjahrigen Krieg fur Frieden und Verstandigung der Glaubenslager. Zerstrittene Reichsstande, Standeopposition in der Habsburgermonarchie, Turkenkrieg, Friauler Krieg, Julicher Wirren, die Fehden der Habsburger untereinander, eine feindselige Machtelite und Attentate setzten ihm zu. Welche Chancen eroffneten sich Khlesl, um die Aufgaben zu meistern?

"Du côté de chez Swann" est un roman de Marcel Proust, publié en 1913 à compte d’auteur."Du côté de chez Swann" est le premier tome de "À la recherche du temps perdu", aussi connue comme "La Recherch

Like a desert rose blooming amidst the harshest elements, Khadijah M. Masorongs "Journey of a Lost Soul" is a poignant reminder that within us lies the power to reclaim our lives, learn from our pain, and flourish ultimately. This remarkable memoir awakens within us the profound truth that we are never lost, but rather, ever-evolving souls on a journey of self-discovery. "Journey of a Lost Soul" is not merely a book but a companion on our paths, guiding us toward a deeper understanding of ourselves and courageous acts of self-acceptance and healing. Khadijah M. Masorongs words resonate with a universal truth that our giants can be conquered when we possess the courage to face them head-on. Her story is a clarion call to embrace our vulnerabilities, learn from our pain, and flourish on our respective paths in life. "Journey of a Lost Soul" is an enduring collection of writings from the life of Khadijah M. Masorong which has shaped her into the remarkable individual she is today. Prepare to be inspired, captivated, and forever changed by the wisdom that awaits within these pages.

This book traces the archaeological history of Pylos and surrounding regions in Messenia from the Palaeolithic to the present. Designed as much for general readers and travelers interested in ancient Greece as for scholars, the volume presents the findings of the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project (PRAP), which has intensively studied the region over the past 15 years. The 1998 edition, originally published by the University of Texas Press and widely used as a textbook in undergraduate classes, is reprinted with a new preface assessing PRAPs impact and outlining new discoveries in the region.

Gilbert Highet (1906-1978) was one of Columbia Universitys greatest teachers and in his day the most celebrated classical scholar in America. One may regard his life and career as both extraordinary and controversial. Now, over forty years after his death, a fresh retrospect seems appropriate, as a way of presenting new information about him and evaluating his enduring classical legacy for the twenty-first century reader. This fully documented biographical appreciation of Highets life and work, capped by fully updated bibliographies of publications by him and about him, offers a long-overdue "official life" of this unique and towering figure.

This volume celebrates the career of Norma Franklin, an archaeologist who has made important contributions to our understanding of the three key cities of Samaria, Megiddo, and Jezreel in the Northern Kingdom of Israel during the Iron Age. The sixteen essays offered herein by Franklins colleagues in archaeology and biblical studies are a fitting tribute to the woman in the pith helmet: an indomitable field archaeologist who describes herself as "happiest with complex stratigraphy" and dedicated to "killing sacred cows."

This book honors the memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of Near Eastern archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an accomplished amateur photographer. Hesse specialized in zooarchaeology, but he influenced a wider range of excavators and ancient historians with his broad interpretive reach. He spent much of his career analyzing faunal materials from different countries in the Middle East-including Iran, Yemen, and Israel, and his publications covered themes particular to animal bone studies, such as domestication, ancient market economics, as well as broader themes such as determining ethnicity in archaeology. The essays in this volume reflect the breadth of his interests. Most chapters share an Old World geographic setting, focusing either on Europe or the Middle East. The topics are diverse, with the majority discussing animal bones, as was Hesses specialization, but some take a nonfaunal perspective related to the problems with which Hesse grappled. The volume is also broad in temporal scope, ranging from Neolithic Iran to early Medieval England, and it addresses theoretical matters as well as methodological innovations including taphonomy and the history of computers in zooarchaeology. Several of the essays are direct revisits to, inspirations from, or extensions of Hesses own research. All the contributions reflect his intense interest in social questions about antiquity; the theme of social archaeology informed much of Brian Hesses thinking, and it is why his work made such an impact on those working outside his own disciplinary research.

Carl Blegen is the most famous American archaeologist ever to work in Greece, and no American has ever had a greater impact on Greek archaeology. Yet Blegen, unlike several others of his generation, has found no biographer. In part, the explanation for this must lie in the fact that his life was so multifaceted: not only was he instrumental in creating the field of Aegean prehistory, but Blegen, his wife, and their best friends, the Hills ("the family"), were also significant forces in the social and intellectual community of Athens. Authors who have contributed to this book have each researched one aspect of Blegens life, drawing on copious documentation in the United States, England, and Greece. The result is a biography that sets Blegen and his closest colleagues in the social and academic milieu that gave rise to the discipline of classical archaeology in Greece.

This collection of essays honors the life and work of Gary Beckman, Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies at the University of Michigan. The essays were contributed by his colleagues, students, and friends, and their breadth-traversing ancient Anatolia, Syria, Mesopotamia, and beyond-are a measure of the range of his influence as a scholar. His interest in the reception and adaptation of Syro-Mesopotamian culture by the Hittites in particular inspired this offering.

Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Occupied from around 7500 BC to 5700 BC, the large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk in Anatolia is composed entirely of domestic buildings; no public buildings have been identified. First excavated in the early 1960s, the site was left untouched until 1993. During the summers of 1997-2003 a team from the University of California at Berkeley (the BACH team) excavated an area at the northern end of the East Mound of Catalhoyuk. The houses there date predominantly to the late Aceramic and early Ceramic Neolithic, around 7000 BC. Last House on the Hill is the final report of the BACH excavations. This volume comprises both interpretive chapters and empirical data from the excavations and their materials. The research of the BACH team focuses on the lives and life histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in documenting and sharing the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities.

This is the first complete translation and commentary on the important tableau and inscription of Queen Katimala/Karimala at Semna. Proper understanding of the paleography, grammar, and content reveals Katimala to have been a Nubian ruler at the time of the Twenty-First to Twenty-Second Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. She emerges as a political and military leader who took control of at least Lower Nubia in the wake of failed military activities on the part of a male predecessor. Katimalas inscription is not illegible, as has often been stated, but is a well-composed Lower Nubian example of a politico-religious manifesto applying many of the conventions of early Egyptian literary and historical compositions.

This volume is the first to bring together a number of studies on the Early Holocene of the California coast (ca. 10,000 to 6600 BP). Erlandson and Colten haveassembled contributions that may be of interest to a broad spectrum of scholars whose research pertains to any of the following: early sites in the Americas, coastal adaptations, hunter-gatherer adaptations, general Pacific coast prehistory, and the specific history of research on pre-6600 BP occupations of coastal California.

How do you remember the seventies? Whether its as the "Me Decade," the heatwave of 1976, or the Winter of Discontent, youll find something in these pages to stir up nostalgia for the pop culture that defined the decade! Cinemas were showing groundbreaking movies, from Star Wars and Suspiria to Smokey and the Bandit, and TV programming was in its golden age with childrens classics like Jamie and the Magic Torch and the satirical Abigails Party, all played out on brand-new color TV sets. Then came the first-ever videogame consoles -- the Magnavox Odyssey, or the Atari 2600 -- and along with it, Pong. In Ultimate 70s Collection, youll read and remember (or imagine!) what life was like in this momentous decade filled with iconic toys, trends, music, movies, celebrities, and other pop culture phenomena. Filled with fascinating articles, high-quality photography, and so much more, take a trip down memory lane and rediscover the most notable developments of the seventies!

Carl Blegen is the most famous American archaeologist ever to work in Greece, and no American has ever had a greater impact on Greek archaeology. Yet Blegen, unlike several others of his generation, has found no biographer. In part, the explanation for this must lie in the fact that his life was so multifaceted: not only was he instrumental in creating the field of Aegean prehistory, but Blegen, his wife, and their best friends, the Hills ("the family"), were also significant forces in the social and intellectual community of Athens. Authors who have contributed to this book have each researched one aspect of Blegens life, drawing on copious documentation in the United States, England, and Greece. The result is a biography that sets Blegen and his closest colleagues in the social and academic milieu that gave rise to the discipline of classical archaeology in Greece.

On 10 May 1994, Nelson Mandela became South Africas first black president, uttering the words let freedom reign as part of his famous inaugural address. More than 100,000 people turned up to hear him speak. Mandelas great skill as an orator has enabled him to use the power of words as an important weapon in his fight against discrimination and injustice in the world. This collection, which marks the 20th anniversary of Mandelas release from prison in February 1990, explores how his electrifying speeches and impressive rhetoric helped bring about social and political change in South Africa, through, among other things, the dismantling of the apartheid system. Throughout his lifetime, Mandela has spoken about and written on such issues as global warming, HIV/AIDS, human rights, racism and discrimination and womens rights, and some of these are showcased in "Let Freedom Reign". In this book, author Henry Russell analyses the linguistic features, content and context of Mandelas speeches, revealing the oratory skill behind this great mans most inspiring words.

Ars musice, composed in Paris during the late thirteenth century, reflects Johannes de Grocheios awareness of the complexity of the task of describing music. As the editors note in their introduction, "Grocheio is aware of the enormous range of types of music performed in different ways in different places. How can he impose order on this enormous subject matter? He decided to resolve this question by structuring his discussion around the practice of music that he observed in the city of Paris, organized into three main branches: music of the people (musica vulgalis), composite or regular, which they call measured music (musica mensurata), and ecclesiastical music (musica ecclesiastica), which he claims derives from the other two (AM 6.2). The originality of Grocheios treatise has attracted considerable scholarly interest. It has long been recognized as a unique source of information about musical life in medieval Paris. Through his treatise, Grocheio enables a modern reader to become aware of the complex auditory environment of that city in the late thirteenth century as well as of its intellectual vitality at a particularly vibrant moment in its history."

Californias northern Channel Islands have one of the longest and best-preserved archaeological records in the Americas, spanning some 13,000 calendar years. When European explorers first travelled to the area, these islands were inhabited by the Chumash, some of the most populous and culturally complex hunter-gatherers known. Chumash society was characterised by hereditary leaders, sophisticated exchange networks and interaction spheres, and diverse maritime economies. Focusing on the archaeology of five sites dated to the last 3,000 years, this book examines the archaeology and historical ecology of San Miguel Island, the westernmost and most isolated of the northern Channel Islands. Detailed faunal, artefact, and other data are woven together in a diachronic analysis that investigates the interplay of social and ecological developments on this unique island. The first to focus solely on San Miguel Island archaeology, this book examines issues ranging from coastal adaptations to emergent cultural complexity to historical ecology and human impacts on ancient environments.

El volumen primero de España a finales de la Edad Media (2017) ya trató sobre algunos marcos y fundamentos del orden social como son las realidades geográficas, la población y, en especial, el sistema economico y su funcionamiento, incluyendo una aproximacion a los grupos sociales que intervenian en la produccion y distribucion de bienes. Este segundo volumen tiene como objeto estudiar el conjunto de la estructura social, su dinamica y las relaciones que se establecen en el seno de la sociedad, en diversos ambitos y modalidades: Iglesia, nobleza y señorios, campesinos, ciudades y municipios, grupos marginales, judios, mudejares. El tiempo historico a considerar discurre desde mediados del siglo XIII hasta comienzos del XVI y, como e el primer volumen, se ofrece una amplia guia bibliografica clasificada por materias para dar a conocer el estado de las investigaciones y gran parte de las publicaciones especializadas.

Sin desconocer la importancia que tiene todo texto constitucional, el presente libro propone volver al estudio de los Congresos Hispanoamericanos de la época de las independencias con la idea de hacer visible el activismo politico y el quehacer legislativo de los diputados que conformaron los primeros cuerpos colegiados representativos de la soberania nacional. Para ello, centra su atencion en actores reales, hombres de carne y hueso, imbuidos de motivaciones y sentimientos, educados en valores y creencias, en un contexto de crisis internacional y circunstancias historicas concretas.Sirviendose de la prosopografia, la genealogia y la biografia intelectual, analiza a grupos e individuos, asi como a las redes politico-intelectuales establecidas entre los mismos y explica por que los documentos constitucionales emanados del Supremo Congreso Mexicano entre 1813 y1814 tuvieron las caracteristicas que hoy conocemos. Por otro lado, el estudio demuestra como circularon las nuevas ideas politicas y la manera en que estas influyeron en los diputados en el momento de plantear el nuevo diseño constitucional basado en la division de poderes.La obra es el resultado de un amplio proceso de investigacion, sustentado en la revision de una extensa bibliografia y en la consulta de innumerables documentos originales provenientes de archivos y bibliotecas de Mexico, España y los Estados Unidos. Su perspectiva critica y renovada hara de este libro un texto obligado para todos aquellos interesados en la historia de las ideas y de las instituciones politicas de la epoca de las independencias americanas.

Biografias de 60 personajes protagonistas del siglo xv de España desde los Reyes Católicos hasta sus abuelos, nobleza, clérigos, militares e intelectuales de la época para conocer a fondo la antesal