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Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- 1 Expectations -- August 1983 -- September -- October -- November -- 2 The Diagnosis -- December 2 -- 3 The First Twelve Days -- 8:30 P.M. -- December 3 -- December 4 -- December 5 -- December 6 -- December 7 -- December 8 -- December 9 -- December 10 -- December 11 -- December 12 -- December 13 -- 4 Hospital City -- December 14 -- 4:00 A.M. -- 5 God -- Part II -- 6 Sometimes You Just Go Crazy -- What next? -- Christmas Season -- January 5 -- 7 We Dig -- January 15 -- 8 We Lift Our Heads -- February 2 -- February 25 -- 9 A Slow Awakening -- March -- April 2 -- May -- 10 He Believes -- June 20 -- June 30 -- Part III -- 11 Maine Fever -- July -- August 23 -- 12 Giving Baby the Needle -- September -- 13 Some Babies Cry -- 14 One of Us Tries to Run -- October -- 15 We Wait -- November -- December -- Part IV -- 16 Healing -- 17 Her Radar -- 18 Loving Rachel.

Front Cover -- Judgements on History and Historians -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Introduction -- I. Antiquity -- 1. Ancient History and Its Scope -- 2. On the Intellectual Indispensability of Studying Ancient History -- 3. The Limits of Civilization and Barbarism -- 4. Why Today's 'educated Man' Can No Longer Understand Antiquity -- 5. The Historical Significance of Egypt -- 6. The Phoenicians as the Earliest Creators of πóλεוς (polis) -- 7. On Carthage -- 8. Athens -- 9. Rome and Its Mission in World History -- 10. On the Roman Empire in Its First Two Centuries -- II. The Middle Ages -- 11. On the Middle Ages -- 12. On Early Christianity -- 13. Christianity as a Martyr Religion -- 14. On Asceticism and Its Position -- 15. The Spread of Nicene Christianity -- 16. The Church -- 17. Julian and the Prospect for a Restoration of Paganism -- 18. Western European Arianism and the Jews -- 19. The Breakup of the Western Empire -- 20. The Achievement of Clovis I -- 21. Mohammed as the Founder of a Religion, and Islam -- 22. The Despotism of Islam -- 23. Islam and Its Effects -- 24. The Two Main Realities for the Papacy of the Eighth Century -- 25. Charlemagne -- 26. The Normans -- 27. The Byzantine Empire and Its Mission -- 28. On the Iconoclastic Controversy -- 29. On the Crusades -- 30. The Sorrows and Sacrifices of the Crusades -- 31. On the Evaluation of the Later Middle Ages -- III. History from 1450 to 1598 -- 32. The Period from 1450 to 1598 and the Nineteenth Century's View of It -- 33. England in the Late Middle Ages -- 34. On Richard III -- 35. On the Wars of the Roses and on Scotland -- 36. Burgundy -- 37. Charles the Bold of Burgundy -- 38. France and the Idea of Unification -- 39. Louis XI -- 40. The German Imperial Power Under Frederick III -- 41. The Ottomans -- 42. The Republic of Florence.

Preventing violent conflict -- Getting to the peace table -- Disarming, demobilizing, and reintegrating fighters -- Post-conflict governance and leadership -- - Transitional justice and reconciliation -- How the international system lets women down

Vincenzo Consolo is counted by many critics among the most significant voices in contemporary world literature. This volume makes available for the first in English an edited and annotated volume of Consolo's short stories, essays, and other writings pertaining to the diverse cultures and histories of Sicily and the Mediterranean basin