Title:Public pantheons and exemplary men: A journey in the European imagination, c. 1790-1840
Author(s):BOUWERS, Eveline G.Date:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis argues that a European cultural history existed in those years that have been considered as the dawn of the ‘Age of Nationalism’. Although, early nineteenth-century pantheons can superficially be divided in two ...
Title:Public Spaces: Searching out the social underpinnings of democracy in everyday life
Author(s):VICHERAT MATTAR, DanielaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This work is about the everyday relationship between public spaces and democracy. Based on the comparison of historical and qualitative data, it aim is to discuss the existence of an underpinning social experience of ...
Title:A quarta porta do inferno : o clero e a luxúria no espaço luso-americano (1640-1750)
Author(s):GOUVEIA, Jaime Ricardo TeixeiraDate:2012Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Structured in seven chapters, this dissertation has a well defined scientific purpose: to study the lustful behaviors of the clergy that, according to Liguori, gives access to the fourth door of Hell, and also to inquire ...