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A magisterial history of French society ... Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the distinctiveness of early modern society and identifies the ...

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (essay ... and Twelfth Books of Giovanni Villani's New Chronicle Translated from the Italian by Rala I. Diakité and Matthew T. Sneider Giovanni Villani’s ...

Morgan-Ellis, Ph.D. Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context offers a fresh curriculum for the college-level music appreciation course. The musical examples are drawn ... At UNG she teaches ...

Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Readers: Key Terms and Their Stories is a well-presented, fascinating, educational and ...

Traditional scholarship on manuscripts has tended to focus on issues concerning their production and has shown comparatively little interest in the cultural contexts ... of the medieval manuscript ...

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Justin Jacobs, author and expert in modern Chinese history, discusses loot, antiquity, and imperialism in his new book.

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The Duanwu Festival, or the Dragon Boat Festival, is an example of the main festivals in traditional Chinese culture covered in one of the books. Cover Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Readers ...