LIBROS DEL AUTOR: victor kiernan

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  • The Duel in European History
    Victor Kiernan
    For centuries, duelling played an integral role in the preservation of the aristocratic order in Europe, defying attempts by both church and state to ban the practice. Moreover, the romance and drama of the duel has made it an enduring fixture in films, literature, and the theatre.In The Duel in European History, renowned historian Victor Kiernan writes with his characteristic ...
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  • Eight Tragedies of Shakespeare
    Victor Kiernan
    ’This book rests on a lifetime’s thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in 'a more realistic light'.’Times Literary SupplementThe seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama across Western Europe. And in the plays of William Shakespeare, this form of drama found its greatest exponent. These Tragedies, Kiernan argues, represented the artistic express...
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  • Shakespeare
    Victor Kiernan
    ’This book rests on a lifetime’s thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in 'a more realistic light'.’Times Literary SupplementAlthough Shakespeare is rightly celebrated for the continued relevancy of his plays and poetry today, we too often lose sight of the wider historical context which shaped his work. In Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen, Victor Kiernan shows that ...
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  • The Lords of Human Kind
    Victor Kiernan
    When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often hostile or contemptuous.Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries’ memo...
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    37,33 €