14,376円 Winner of the 2016 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize of the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference During the sixteenth century, no part of the Christian West saw the development of a more powerful and pervasive astrological culture than the very home of the Reformation movement--the Protestant town...

3,045円 The life-altering experiences of the American soldiers who liberated three Nazi concentration camps. On April 4, 1945, United States Army units from the 89th Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Division seized Ohrdruf, the first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated in Germany. In th...

1,657円 In 1933, when she is ten, Berliner Inge Deutschkron learns that she is a Jew. At first her family is at greater risk for their leftist politics than because they are Jews. Her father flees to England; Inge and her mother hide in plain sight as non-Jews, dependent on the underground network for th...

661円 "Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (1847 - 1934) war ein deutscher Militär und Politiker. Im Ersten Weltkrieg stieg er zum Generalfeldmarschall auf. Die von ihm geführte Oberste Heeresleitung übte von 1916 bis 1918 quasi diktatorisch die faktische Regierungsgewalt aus. 1...

1,600円 sie waren mächtig und klug, kreativ und beharrlich - und manchmal schon zu lebzeiten eine legende: die starken frauen in den orten entlang der straße der romanik. in magdeburg, quedlinburg, helfta, hadmersleben, sangerhausen, naumburg, merseburg und vielen anderen orten haben sie ihre spuren hint...

11,772円 Celestial phenomena were often harnessed for use by clerics in early modern Germany. Kurihara examines how and why interest in these events grew in this period, how the clergy exploited these beliefs and the role of sectarianism in Germany at this time.

11,772円 Moger’s study explores the personal experience of those who found themselves on the ‘losing side’ of the Reformation. Using the private diary of Catholic priest, Wolfgang Königstein, Moger discusses the early years of Protestantism and its effects on the lives of German Catholics.

11,772円 Presents an exmination of printed representations of monstrous births in German-speaking Europe from the end of the fifteenth century and through the sixteenth century, beginning with a seminal series of broadsheets from the late 1490s by humanist Sebastian Brant, and including prints by Albrecht...

999円 Renommé pour ses rêves de grandeur, sa clairvoyance politique et la force de ses convictions religieuses, Charlemagne ouvre en grande pompe la lignée médiévale des Carolingiens. En 800, il se fait couronner par le pape empereur de Rome et des chrétiens. Soucieux des intérêts et de la gloire de so...

1,500円 Er hasste Krieg und führte zwei bewaffnete Kämpfe. Er sah sich als König von Gottes Gnaden und ordnete sich dem Kaiser unter. Er bevorzugte die Einsamkeit und suchte ständig nach einem Vertrauten. König Ludwig II. von Bayern (1845-1886) reagierte auf seine Zeit mit einem veralteten und religiös v...

6,096円 Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany’s Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world’s first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized – however misleadingly – in Christopher Isher...

4,371円 In August 1961, seventeen-year-old Rita Kuczynski was living with her grandmother and studying piano at a conservatory in West Berlin. Caught in East Berlin by the rise of the Berlin Wall while on a summer visit to her parents, she found herself trapped behind the Iron Curtain for the next twenty...