The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance
7 best books like The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (J.R. Hale): The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II, The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance, The Making of the Middle Ages, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
| Author | Eamon Duffy |
| ISBN | 0300108281 |
This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts...
| Author | Alex Kershaw |
| ISBN | 0306815575 |
December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Crazed Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews day and night, turning the Danube blood-red. In less than six months, thirty-eight-year-old SS Colonel Adolf...
| Author | Martin Gilbert |
| ISBN | 0805062602 |
The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
Drawing from twenty-five years of original research, Sir Martin Gilbert re-creates the remarkable stories of non-Jews who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust.
According to Jewish tradition, "Whoever saves one life, it is as if...
| Author | Lisa Jardine |
| ISBN | 0393318664 |
In this provocative and wholly absorbing work, Lisa Jardine offers a radical interpretation of the Renaissance, arguing that the creation of culture during that time was inextricably tied to the creation of wealth — that the expansion of commerce spurred the expansion of thought. As Jardine boldly...
| Author | R.W. Southern |
| ISBN | 0300002300 |
An acknolwedged classic of european history, R.W. Southern's "The Middle Ages" focuses on the period between 900 and 1200 A.D. His geopgraphic focus is mostly northern france, with some asides to Germany, Italy, Southern France and England. His main thesis is the idea that this period saw the emergence...
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
| Author | Yitzhak Arad |
| ISBN | 0253213053 |
..". Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution.... Mr. Arad's book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go."--New York Times Book Review
..". some of the most gripping chapters I have ever read.... the authentic, exhaustive,...
