Documents and analyzes the living archive surrounding Vasil Levski (1837–1873), Bulgaria's major and... Læs mere
Traces how the liberal humanist philosophy once associated with Central Europe (exemplified by figures like Havel, Konrád, Kundera, and Michnik) was replaced by economic liberalism and neoliberal policies during the transition era.
An essential guide for lawmakers, scholars, and students of law, this work takes on the formidable task of providing a detailed overview of the harmonization of law in the European Union.
This book explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures, demonstrating methodological approaches to understanding past religious experiences and meanings.
Zeromski's final novel, follows Cezary Baryka, a young Pole who escapes the chaos of the Russian Revolution in Baku and undertakes a harrowing journey west with his father, ultimately reaching newly independent Poland alone after his father's death en route.
Presents conversations with four distinguished Medieval Studies scholars... Læs mere
This book is about the Christ Pantokrator, an imposing monumental complex serving monastic, dynastic, medical and social purposes in Constantinople, founded by Emperor John II Komnenos and Empress Piroska-Eirene in 1118.
This work is the result of the Forum 2000 conferences initiated by Václav Havel and Elie Wiesel. The book is based mainly on the first five conferences which were held in Prague from 1997.
Examines theories about the morality of political action in response to contemporary political disillusionment, arguing for constrained realism and wide indirect motivation to... Læs mere
Examines the period of communist takeover and high Stalinism in Eastern Europe (1945-1955), characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based on radical transformism and cultural revolution.
Memoir that serves as both creative autobiographical writing and an important Holocaust document, describing Jewish life in German-occupied Budapest's ghetto and the author's nineteen-day internment in a labor camp during the extremist Arrow Cross regime in 1944.
Having presented the physical conditions among which Hungarian Jews lived... Læs mere