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"Fourteenth century Europe was an era of the expansion of city life, with the blossoming of urban industries, the bolstering of municipal governments, and new opportunities for dynamic exchanges among bustling communities of locals and visiting traders. The burghers who spearheaded such developments were discerning consumers of novel artistic and literary forms. One particularly popular new genre aimed at amusing and inspiring this newly assertive urban class was the illuminated World Chronicle, or Weltchroniken. These handmade books, produced in Bavaria and Austria in the late Middle Ages, compiled biblical stories, ancient myths, political stories from the past, and historical legends in a rhyming vernacular narrative. The stories were adorned with dynamic and richly varied cycles of illustrations that made characters and events from the past tangible and relevant to the medieval present and introduced iconographies and modes of conceptualizing history that might startle modern eyes - Cain, for instance, is depicted as a fashionable dandy of the fifteenth century and celebrated in the text as a founder of cities despite his wrongdoings. The children of Adam and Eve come off as entrepreneurs of city industry, while the story of Moses references Christian-Jewish contacts and European conceptions of Africans, and the story of the Judgement of Paris plays out as a prelude to a jousting tournament. Because they were typically read by members of the lower nobility and high-ranking burghers, the World Chronicles offer insight into the interests of people removed from elite social circles; this less-established audience also allowed artists to innovate and experiment with styles and media. Nina Rowe focuses on a remarkable cluster of twenty-four illuminated World Chronicles that were produced circa 1330-1430 in the Bavarian and Austrian region, where the genre enjoyed the greatest popularity. In seven elegantly-written and beautifully illustrated chapters, Rowe takes a cross-disciplinary approach, considering textual, pictorial, and material evidence in relation to social history to examine the relationship between illuminated World Chronicles and the tastes and preoccupations of urban audiences in an era of growing city life. As she incisively shows, the often spontaneous, playful, or cynical nature of these books complicates traditional conceptions of the long fourteenth century in Europe as a calamitous epoch or an age preoccupied with Christian piety. Through discussion of religious dissent and Christian European conceptions of an interactions with Jews and Africans, Rowe further complicates the standard narratives of the European Middles Ages as homogenously white, Christian, and spiritually obedient. By exploring little known art historical and literary evidence that reveals experiences that could be optimistic or ambitious and separate from the dictates of the church, The Illuminated World Chronicle enriches the story of medieval German art by bringing attention to artworks and attitudes long sidelined in scholarship"--

A major new assessment of the "vanished kingdom" of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth-one which recognizes its achievements before its destruction

"When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including lifelike detail, not only helped make painting the defining medium of Western art, they also ushered in new ways of seeing the world. This highly original book explores Van Eyck's pivotal work, as well as panels by Rogier van der Weyden and their followers, to understand how viewers came to appreciate a world depicted in two dimensions. Through careful examination of primary documents, Noa Turel reveals that paintings were consistently described as au vif: made not 'from life' but 'into life.' Animation, not representation, drove Van Eyck and his contemporaries. Turel's interpretation reverses the commonly held belief that these artists were inspired by the era's burgeoning empiricism, proposing instead that their 'living pictures' helped create the conditions for empiricism. Illustrated with exquisite fifteenth-century paintings, this volume asserts these works' key role in shaping, rather than simply mirroring, the early modern world." --Publisher's website and inside front flap of dustjacket.

A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society

A groundbreaking analysis of one of the most significant collections of African art in the United States

A rich, provocative, and lyrical study of one of Germany's most important, world-famous, and imaginative writer

A wide-ranging study of the painted panorama's influence on art, photography, and film

The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colon

Dr Comer reignites a crucial debate as he urges teachers, policy makers and parents to work toward creating a new kind of school environment where there is support for students' complete development. He details the success of his School Development Program and argues the link between development and academic learning.

A magnet for controversy, the media, and followers, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was the premier voice of northern religious liberalism for more than a quarter-century, and a worthy heir to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. From his pulpits at Yale University and, later, New York City’s Riverside Church, Coffin focused national attention on civil rights, the anti-Vietnam War movement, disarmament, and gay rights. This revealing biography—based on unparalleled access to family papers and candid interviews with Coffin, his colleagues, family, friends, lovers, and wives—tells for the first time the remarkable story of Coffin’s life.An army and CIA veteran before assuming the post of Yale University chaplain at the youthful age of 33, Coffin gained notoriety as a leader of a dangerous civil rights Freedom Ride in 1961, as a defendant in the “Boston Five” trial of draft resisters in 1969, and as the preeminent voice of liberal religious dissent into the 1980s. This book encompasses Coffin’s turbulent private life as well as his flamboyant, joyful public career, while dramatically illuminating the larger social movements that consumed his days and defined his times.

“This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto’s crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper.”—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, “a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought.” A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper’s Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West. This volume brings together ten of DeVoto’s acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published. The book also includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who was a student of DeVoto’s at Harvard University, and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick, both of which shed light on DeVoto’s work and legacy.

To understand American politics and government, we need to recognize not only that members of Congress are agents of societal interests and preferences but also that they act with a certain degree of autonomy and consequence in the country’s public sphere. In this illuminating book, a distinguished political scientist examines actions performed by members of Congress throughout American history, assessing their patterns and importance and their role in the American system of separation of powers.David R. Mayhew examines standard history books on the United States and identifies more than two thousand actions by individual members of the House and Senate that are significant enough to be mentioned. Mayhew offers insights into a wide range of matters, from the nature of congressional opposition to presidents and the surprising frequency of foreign policy actions to the timing of notable activity within congressional careers (and the way that congressional term limits might affect these performances). His book sheds new light on the contributions to U.S. history made by members of Congress.

As Moscow bureau chief for Business Week magazine, Rose Brady was on the scene during the fall of the Soviet Union and the key early years of Russia’s transformation from a socialist state to a market economy. Brady interviewed scores of major political and economic figures, entrepreneurs, and ordinary Russian citizens, all of whom confronted enormous changes during the first five years of economic reform. In this compelling book, Brady provides one of the first accounts of Russia’s transition period written by an observer without a personal stake in the reform efforts’ outcome. The author takes readers into the factories, stores, banks, impromptu markets, homes, and schools of Russia, as well as into the corridors of power, to explain how the country’s own brand of capitalism has evolved.The book describes the shock to citizens when Boris Yeltsin’s government liberated prices in 1992; the early entrepreneurs who scrambled for position as state assets were privatized; privatization chief Anatoly Chubais’s crucial compromises, which altered the shape of Russian capitalism; and the development of an oligarchical system dominated by a handful of financial-industrial conglomerates. Some people have been left behind in poverty, sickness, and confusion as Russia has lurched toward capitalism, Brady concludes, yet by 1997, with private-sector domination of the economy, Russia had achieved an essentially successful economic transformation.

A dialogue among Stanley B. Greenberg, Theda Skocpol and other thinkers. They argue that the USA is ready for a progressive politics with substance, and contend that by embarking on a popular progressive course, the Democratic Party can become the moral voice of American families.