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Living I Was Your Plague - Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper
Category: History | Series: The\Lawrence Stone Lectures
From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life image Martin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona has ...Show more
Rules - A Short History of What We Live By by Lorraine Daston
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Lawrence Stone Lectures
Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have and yearn for ones we don't, yet no culture could do ...Show more
Sleepwalking into a New World : The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century by Chris Wickham
Category: History | Series: The Lawrence Stone Lectures
Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich by Christopher Clark
Category: History | Series: The\Lawrence Stone Lectures
From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of time This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws on four ...Show more
Time and Power - Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years` War to the Third Reich by Christopher Clark
Category: History | Series: The\Lawrence Stone Lectures
From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of timeThis groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed historian Christopher Clark draws o ...Show more
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