Product Description: The humanists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries took a passionate interest in Livy s History of Rome. No one studied the text more intensively than the Swiss scholar Henricus Glareanus, who not only held lectures on different Roman historians at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, but also drew up chronological tables for ancient history, which were printed several times in Basle, sometimes together with Livy s History...read more

Product Description: Drawing on case studies from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, covering Europe and beyond, "Collectors Knowledge: What is Kept, What is Discarded" investigates how knowledge was acquired, organized and sometimes lost. It examines collections of texts and objects libraries, textbooks, miscellanies, commonplace books, data collections pertaining to historical events, encyclopedias, royal and ducal treasures, curiosity cabinets, galleries and museums to uncover the processes of accumulation, organization, selection and rejection that have shaped learning...read more

Product Description: Migration in History explores the nature and complexity of the movement of peoples, cultures, and ideas in historical context. This engaging volume presents essays from a variety of scholars to expand our understanding of the longstanding process and history of migration as an established global phenomenon...read more