1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006018960403321

Autore

Patry, Robert

Titolo

Le Principe de la Confiance : et la formation du contrat en droit suisse / ROBERT PATRY

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Geneve : Imprimerie du Journal, 1953

Descrizione fisica

296 p. ; 23x16 cm

Disciplina

346.02

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

VIII F 55

VIII F 284

Lingua di pubblicazione

Non definito

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465242503321

Autore

Shepley Nick

Titolo

The Palmer raids and the red scare 1918-1920 [[electronic resource] ] : Wilson, Palmer and the breaking of American socialism / / by Nick Shepley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Luton, U.K.], : Andrews U.K. Ltd., 2011

ISBN

1-283-70149-9

1-84989-945-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (29 p.)

Collana

Explaining Modern History, 3

Disciplina

323.4430973

Soggetti

Communism - United States

Radicalism - United States

Civil rights - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; The Palmer Raids and The Red Scare; The Red Scare 1919-1920; Leon Trotsky Comes To America; The Wartime Clampdown; The Palmer Raids; Also Available

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume of the Explaining Modern History Series, Nick Shepley explores the roots of American anti Communism and how a strong and independent left wing movement in the USA was broken during and immediately after World War One. Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of America in the 1920s and beyond.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787520803321

Autore

Schmitt Jean-Claude <1946->

Titolo

The conversion of Herman the Jew [[electronic resource] ] : autobiography, history, and fiction in the twelfth cenutry / / Jean-Claude Schmitt, translated by Alex J. Novikoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003

ISBN

0-8122-0875-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

The Middle Ages Series

Altri autori (Persone)

NovikoffAlex J

Disciplina

248.2/46092

Soggetti

Christian converts from Judaism

Germany Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Fiction and Truth -- Chapter 2. Medieval Autobiography -- Chapter 3. The Dream and Its Interpretation -- Chapter 4. Conversion to Images -- Chapter 5. Baptism and Name -- Chapter 6. ''A New Era of Conversion'' -- Conclusion -- Extract from the Vita of Godfried, Count of Cappenburg (c. 1150-1155) -- Herman the Former Jew: Short Work on the Subject of His Conversion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Sometime toward the middle of the twelfth century, it is supposed, an otherwise obscure figure, born a Jew in Cologne and later ordained as a priest in Cappenberg in Westphalia, wrote a Latin account of his



conversion to Christianity. Known as the Opusculum, this book purportedly by "Herman, the former Jew" may well be the first autobiography to be written in the West after the Confessions of Saint Augustine. It may also be something else entirely. In The Conversion of Herman the Jew the eminent French historian Jean-Claude Schmitt examines this singular text and the ways in which it has divided its readers. Where some have seen it as an authentic conversion narrative, others have asked whether it is not a complete fabrication forged by Christian clerics. For Schmitt the question is poorly posed. The work is at once true and fictional, and the search for its lone author-whether converted Jew or not-fruitless. Herman may well have existed and contributed to the writing of his life, but the Opusculum is a collective work, perhaps framed to meet a specific institutional agenda. With agility and erudition, Schmitt examines the text to explore its meaning within the society and culture of its period and its participation in both a Christian and Jewish imaginary. What can it tell us about autobiography and subjectivity, about the function of dreams and the legitimacy of religious images, about individual and collective conversion, and about names and identities? In The Conversion of Herman the Jew Schmitt masterfully seizes upon the debates surrounding the Opusculum (the text of which is newly translated for this volume) to ponder more fundamentally the ways in which historians think and write.