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A revelatory new account of the magus - the learned magician - and his place in the intellectual, social and cultural world of Renaissance Europe
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Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was ...
In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation ...
'This vital history shatters many myths about the Nazi genocide . . . . surprising . . . provocative . . . fizzes with ideas. Even if you think you know the subject, you'll ...
An electrifying history of protest and its transformations in post-war Europe
In post-war Europe, protest was everywhere. On both sides of the Iron Curtain, from ...
The shared history of the European continent, from classical antiquity to today
Whether as a battleground or a cradle of civilizations, Europe has left an ...
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?
Viennese ideas saturate the ...
A landmark history of the lost world of peasants and all it has to teach us, from one of Britain's leading social historians
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A landmark study of the Enlightenment from an eminent historian
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