Deze auteur staat bekend om zijn nauwgezette historische verhalen die ingaan op de complexiteit van minder bekende religieuze groepen en militaire orden. Zijn schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een bekwame mix van uitgebreid onderzoek en boeiende vertelkunst, waarmee hij vervlogen tijdperken tot leven brengt voor hedendaagse lezers. Hij blinkt uit in het verhelderen van ingewikkelde onderwerpen en historische nuances met zowel duidelijkheid als diepgang. Zijn werken bieden een fascinerende verkenning van de evolutie van menselijk geloof en maatschappelijke structuren.
The book highlights the collaborative efforts of Jewish leaders in interwar Poland who established local associations to support orphaned children. It focuses on their commitment to creating a sustainable Jewish future. Through translated sources from Yiddish and Polish, readers gain insight into the lives of these children and the relentless dedication of the community to improve their situations.
This comprehensive guide offers insights for those looking to transform their BBQ skills into an artistic culinary experience. It provides expert techniques, tips, and creative ideas to enhance flavor and presentation, making it suitable for both novices and seasoned grillers seeking to elevate their outdoor cooking.
A marriage between two unlikely characters - wood-fired food and well-chosen
wines - brought to you by the real-life marriage of a pitmaster and a
sommelier.
The Templars have exerted a unique influence over European history: orthodox historians see them as nothing more than soldier-monks whose arrogance was their ultimate undoing, while others see them as occultists of the first order, the founders of Freemasonry, possessors of the Holy Grail and creators of the Turin Shroud. Sean Martin considers both the orthodox and conspiratorial version of events, and includes the latest revelations from the Vatican Library.
Exploring the legacy of the French New Wave, this book delves into its influence on global cinema, highlighting its innovative techniques of using real locations and nonprofessional actors. Sean Martin traces the evolution of various cinematic movements, including German Expressionism, Soviet Formalism, and Italian Neorealism, while also examining contemporaneous waves like the Czech, British, and New German cinemas. Additionally, it addresses diverse movements such as Brazilian Cinema Novo and avant-garde filmmaking, supported by a comprehensive bibliography and filmography.
Alchemy has traditionally been viewed as 'the history of an error', an example of mediaeval gullibility and greed, in which alchemists tried to turn lead into gold, create fabulous wealth and find the elixir of life. But alchemy has also been described as 'the mightiest secret that a man can possess', and it obsessed the likes of Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle and many of the founders of modern science. This book explores its history, from its mysterious beginnings in Egypt and China, through the Hellenistic world and the early years of Islam and into mediaeval Europe.
The Black Death is the name most commonly given to the pandemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the mediaeval world in the late 1340s. From Central Asia the plague swept through Europe, leaving millions of dead in its wake. Between a quarter and a third of Europe's population died. In England, the population fell from nearly six million to just over three million. The Black Death was the greatest demographic disaster in European history. Sean Martin looks at the origins of the disease and traces its terrible march through Europe.
A concise and accessible history of infectious and non-infectious diseases, complete with the most up-to-date research on 2014’s Ebola outbreakUsing an interdisciplinary approach, this survey chronicles the historical and geographical evolution of infectious and non-infectious diseases, from their prehistoric origins to the present day, offering a comprehensive, accessible guide to ailments and the medical methods used to combat them. Even before recorded history began, disease plagued human civilizations, claiming more lives than natural disasters and warfare combined. The ongoing battle with new and resurgent diseases has challenged physicians, scientists, and historians in their struggle to identify causes, antidotes, and preventative measures to combat these epidemics. Analyzing case studies including the Black Death, Spanish Flu, cholera, leprosy, syphilis, cancer, and Ebola, this book systematically maps the development of trends and the latest research on disease into a concise and enlightening timeline. Offering a fascinating and compelling insight into a popular area of social history, this easy-to-read introduction will tell you all you need to know about disease and the ongoing quest to protect human health.
Gnosticism - derived from the Greek word gnosis, 'to know' - is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ. Although largely stamped out by the Church by the sixth century, Gnostocism survived underground through groups such as the Bogomils and the Cathars and influenced the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the psychologist Carl Jung, the Existentialists, the New Age movement and writers as diverse as William Blake and Albert Camus. Sean Martin recounts its long and diverse history, relevant to this very day.
Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein and one of the most important directors to have emerged during the 1960s and 1970s. Although he made only seven feature films, each one was a major landmark in cinema, the most well-known being the medieval epic Andrei Rublev. In this book, Sean Martin considers the whole of Tarkovsky's oeuvre, seeking to demystify Tarkovsky as a 'difficult' director whilst celebrating his radical aesthetic of long takes and tracking shots. AVAILABLE FROM MARCH 2011
