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This illustrated work is intended to acquaint readers with the early maps produced in both Europe and the rest of the world, and to tell us something of their development, their makers and printers, their varieties and characteristics. The authors' chief concern is with the appearance of maps: they exclude any examination of their content, or of scientific methods of mapmaking. This book ends in the second half of the eighteenth century, when craftsmanship was superseded by specialized science and the machine. As a history of the evolution of the early map, it is a stunning work of art and science. This expanded second edition of Bagrow and Skelton's History of Cartography marks the reappear...
Mit dem »Vocabularius Ex quo« hat das späte Mittelalter ein beispiellos erfolgreiches zweisprachiges Wörterbuch für das deutsche Sprachgebiet entwickelt. Entstanden um 1400 wohl im Oberweserraum, hat es sich rasch über alle deutschen Landschaften ausgebreitet und beherrscht als Nachschlagewerk das ganze 15. Jahrhundert: Mehr als 270 erhaltene Handschriften und über 50 Inkunabelauflagenn sind zwischen 1410 und 1505 überliefert. Aus den lateinischen Summen des grammatischen und realen Wissens durch Reduktion der umfänglichen Erläuterungen zum knappen und erschwinglichen Handbuch für pauperes scolares geworden, kombiniert der »Vocabularis Ex quo« lateinisches Lemma, lateinische Spr...
Was the shaping of nation states in Northern Europe governed by military might, or by Christian and democratic ideals? How has trade and cross-cultural exchange between Scandinavia and the British Isles shaped our historic identities, and what about the impact of global politics and marketing in recent times? These are some of the questions explored by the contributors in the context of forces that shape national identities today. Their analysis highlights the need for historical awareness when developing future cultural policy, brand profiles and marketing strategies. Looking back, Jesse Byock tells how democracy was first embraced in the north by the early settlers of Iceland, Bjorn Myhre ...
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This directory is part of a six-volume set that provides data on over 36,000 European companies. Covering Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, it provides information such as: address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail and Web addresses, listings of a company's activities, parents, subsidiaries and agents, brands and trademarks and financial information for 2001 and 2002.
Dissenting Daughters reveals that devout women made vital contributions to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The six women at the heart of this study: Cornelia Teellinck, Susanna Teellinck, Anna Maria van Schurman, Sara Nevius, Cornelia Leydekker, and Henrica van Hoolwerff, were influential members of networks known for supporting a religious revival known as the Further Reformation. These women earned the support and appreciation of their religious leaders, friends, and relatives by seizing the tools offered by domestic religious study and worship and forming alliances with prominent ministers including Willem Tee...