The Sacrament of Penance and Religious Life in Golden Age Spain explores the practice of sacramental confession in Spain between roughly 1500 and 1700. One of the most significant points of contact between the laity and ecclesiastical hierarchy, confession lay at the heart of attempts to bring religious reformation to bear upon the lives of early modern Spaniards. Rigid episcopal legislation, royal decrees, and a barrage of prescriptive litera ...
Every war has refugees; every revolution has exiles. Most of the refugees of the French Revolution mourned the demise of the monarchy. Lessons from America examines an unusual group who did not. Doina Pasca Harsanyi looks at the American experience of a group of French liberal aristocrats, early participants in the French Revolution, who took shelter in Philadelphia during the Reign of Terror. The book traces their path from enlightened salons ...
In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley’s life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the mature years of Priestley, including the achievements that were to make him famous—the discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitar ...
Der Vater Jude, die Mutter Arierin – das konnte Schlimmstes bedeuten. Medizinprofessor Gross bringt es fertig, mit distanziertem Blick in seinem Leben wie in einem Album zu blattern: Jugend und Elternhaus wahrend der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, Landarbeit statt Studium, Arbeitslager, schlie?lich, nicht frei von ganz bestimmten Stolpersteinen, der Weg zum Erfolg. ...
A bestseller that offers an intimate insight into Fidel Castro, the man behind the beard! · This historic encounter between religion and revolution paved the way for Pope John Paul II’s historic visit to Cuba in 1999 and the rule change in the Cuban Communist Party (1992) accepting as members those practicing their religious faith · Features a new preface by Frei Betto, a Brazilian priest who is widely acclaimed as author of over a dozen books o ...
For the first time, Aleida March evokes the memories of her partner, Ernesto Che Guevara. She describes their great romance and life together from the days when they first met as fellow guerrillas in Cuba's revolutionary war up to the tragic moment when she learned of Che's assassination in Bolivia less than a decade later. As Che's widow, Aleida writes with passion and poignancy of their shared political dreams for the future and ...
Посвящается детям войны. Нет ничего страшнее, чем словосочетание «дети и война». Но наши предки пережили это. Как они смогли выжить? Что спасало их в те страшные времена? О чём думали? Что делали? О чём мечтали? Книга об этом. О мальчишках и девчонках, на долю которых выпало самое страшное – война.
...
События, изложенные в книге, основаны на рассказах очевидцев, на семейных легендах, на архивных данных и на результатах моих поисков и расследований.
...