A History of Europe: From 1378 to 1494 1317217020, 9781317217022

First published in 1932, this book looks at a period that has often been thought of as a time of general decline in the

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A History of Europe: From 1378 to 1494
1317217020, 9781317217022

What is Europe? Firstly, of course, it is a continent made up of countless disparate peoples, races and nations, and gov

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A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present Porcelain was invent

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The idea that with the decline of the Roman Empire Europe entered into some immense "dark age" has long been v

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This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fi

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R.C. Davis provided the classic account of the European medieval world; equipping generations of undergraduate and ‘A’ l

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