History: Europe from The Owl at the Bridge

"In this book one sees how democratically oriented political movements and their opposition were polarized and brought into one great conflict, throughout Europe and America, by the wars of the French Revolution from 1792-1800." "Second Printing 1965." 584 pages; 24 cm. Dust jacket has minor wear & rubbing; Very Good. Stock#ofc0594.

"From the mysterious cave drawings at Altamira to the explosive graffiti on the walls of East Los Angeles, images of Spain and the Americas speak to us of the great variety of Spanish culture. ...Combining a sophisticated perspective on world events and a novelist's eye for irony and metaphor, he weaves a historical narrative of dazzling color and vibrancy" (dust… Ler mais sobre este item

Heritage of the Ancient World; Foundations of the Middle Ages; Age of Barbarian Invasions; Justinian & Mohammed; Advance of Ecclesiastical Leadership; Making of Carolingian Kingship; Culture & Society in the First Europe; Ecclesia & Mundus; Byzantium, Islam, & the West; Europe in 1050; Gregorian World-Revolution; Anglo-Norman Monarchy & Emergence of the Bureaucratic State; First Crusade & After; Intellectual Expansion of… Ler mais sobre este item

Contents include Latin Manuscripts and their Catalogues (R.D. Sweeney, M.-Th. d'Alverny & M.-C. Garand); The Readers and Fortunes of Classical Manuscripts (L. Bieler, R.W. Hunt, G. Billanovich, R. Weiss, L. Gargan); Methods of Teaching and Scholarship (B. Bischoff, E. Jeauneau, A. Gerlo, J. Ijsewijn, E.J. Kenney; The Influence of Classical Literature (P. Courcelle, U. Drinke, D. Schaller, E.P.M. Drinke, B.… Ler mais sobre este item

Sections include The Character of the Classical Heritage; The Educational Inheritance; The Patristic Tradition; The Greek East; The Carolingian Age; the Pre-scholastic Age; The High Renaissance; The End of the Renaissance and the Appearance of New Patterns in Classical Education and Scholarship. vii, 592 pages, index, appendices, notes; red cloth, no dust jacket; Good. Stock#ofc0344.

Three bookseller catalogues: #252, 278 items; #299, 212 items, index; #306, 228 items (12 on Gil Blas de Santillana), index, some illustration; all stapled in pictorial paper covers; Good+. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0313.

Two bookseller catalogues listing works on humanism and the Renaissance. 493 & 232 items, illus.; stapled in paper covers; Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0301.

Four catalogues from William Salloch, bookman. 259: Part II. The Revival of Classical Antiquity. The Classical Tradition. Editiones Principes. 16th Century Editions of Classics. 210 items, index. 261 & 262: Parts III & IV. Renaissance in Italy and Italian Books of the 16th Century. 409 items, index. All stapled in pictorial paper covers; all Good+. Sold… Ler mais sobre este item

Four bookseller catalogues on Renaissance & Baroque European history, literature, politics, government, society; a totl of 1631 titles. Stapled in paper covers; Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0299.

Six bookseller catalogues listing books on the Middle Ages. 710, 600, 637, 347, 709, and 370 items respectively, the last three indexed; a few illustrations; all stapled in pictorial paper covers; all Very Good except 224 which is worn. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0259.

Bankers and Merchants of Siena [Italy]. In Italian. Chapters: Per un profilo di storia economica senese; Siena e il commercio internazionale nel Duecento e nel Trecento; La banca senese nei secoli XIII e XIV; I mercanti e il potere; I mercanti e la terra; L'argento e i sogni: cultura, immaginario, orizzonti mentali; Bibliografia. 384 pages, color… Ler mais sobre este item

Prehistory; Ancient Spain; Moslem and Christian Spain; Catholic Sovereigns; New World Explored; Supremacy under the Hapsburgs; House of Bourbon; Constitutional Government. Folio; 296 pages, illus. incl. color, 33 cm. Good+ in mended color pictorial dust jacket. Stock#ofc0205.

Two volumes. Book One: Antiquity and the Middle Ages; The Renaissance Before the Great Discoveries; The Spice Trade; The Printed Word; The Christian Mission; India. xxviii, 492 pages, illus., endpaper maps; dj worn, one-inch tear from bottom of spine; good. Book Two: Southeast Asia. xii, 493-965 pages, illus.; dj shelfworn, chipped; Good+. Stock#ofc0126.

"The changes ushered in by new modes of representing and understanding nothing during the sixteenth cemtury played a crucial role in creating the value and meaning systems upon which we currently rely. Indeed, nothing is the basis of our modern economy and language. Therefore, this book about nothing in the Renaissance is also very much a book about… Ler mais sobre este item

Gothic European cathedrals, sculpture, painting, stained glass, manuscript illumination, metalwork, tapestries. 287 pages, 206 illus. (32 color); 21 cm. Paper; ink owner name, pencil underlining, yellow highlighting; a working copy. Stock#ofc0003.

First published 1953. "Apart from substantial rewriting throughout the text, this edition contains new material on the Late Roman Empire, the early Christian church, the Germanic peoples, peasant society, and Italian city-states." 631, xx, [2] pages, illus.; front-cover lettering rubbed; Good. Stock#ofc0001.

N.Y., Harvest Books [1975?]. HB-14. Soft Cover. x, 239 p.; 18.5 cm. "I have tried to envisage this great area as a single whole, of which the parts were in continuous communication with each other." Contents include The Revival of Commerce (Mediterranean, North Sea & the Baltic); The Towns (Revival of Urban Life; Merchants & the Bourgeoisie; Urban Institutions &… Ler mais sobre este item

N.Y., International Publishers, 1970. Soft Cover. Copyright, 1926; new edition, 1966. The Peasant War of 1525 compared with the German revolutions of 1848. 100730. . 191 p.; Good+/ paperback with slight wear.

Paris, Armand Colin, 1949. The first edition of a classic of history which altered the way history was conceived in the post-World War II era. Jack Hexter, in a brilliant and funny essay published in the Journal of Modern History (44: 4, December 1972), points out that Braudel's view of the longue durée developed during five years of imprisonment.… Ler mais sobre este item