Title:Tarocchi as Renaissance Memory Places
Author(s):NEDELEA, PatriciaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Why were the Tarocchi cards invented? Historiography gives two disjunctive answers: gaming and fortunetelling. This thesis offers a third original answer. Tarocchi as Renaissance Memory Places shows that these figurative ...
Title:A Time for Pride and Prejudice: Anglo-American relations at the UN during the Congo crisis, 1960-1965
Author(s):O'MALLEY, AlannaDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis examines the Anglo-American relationship at the United Nations during the Congo crisis from 1960-1964. The United Nations headquarters in New York became a focal point for British and American foreign policies ...
Title:Una nueva cristalización social: Las élites urbanas y el Estado en Valladolid y Magdeburgo (ca. 1770-1870)
Author(s):LUENGO SÁNCHEZ, JorgeDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis aims to examine the process of elite formation in a provincial European town in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Spanish town of Valladolid is the case study chosen for this purpose, and it has been compared ...