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Throughout history, Kropotkin argued, "sorcerers, prophets, priests and heads of military organizations" have endeavoured to establish their power and authority over the common people, and people have always resisted. Thus in a sense, Kropotkin concluded, govern mentalists and the common people as anarchists, have co-existed throughout Human history

"The crusading movements provoked a vast and diverse mass of reactions in the medieval West. While Latin sources provide official versions of its preaching, organisation and events, the vernacular lyrics of the troubadours and trouvères present a secular perspective, through a cornucopia of on-the-spot responses in France, Occitania, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, Cyprus, Syria and Greece. This book constitutes the first comprehensive, modern analysis of Old French and Occitan lyric texts relating to the crusades. It brings out their full range, from propaganda for the crusades, to criticisms of crusading and crusaders through vituperation, humour or cynicism, to their use as a pretext for political or personal wrangling. It also shows how they shed light on many aspects of medieval life, among them chivalric and courtly values (often in tension with clerical ones), regional politics, sexual behaviour, personal experiences of crusading and captivity, the complex interaction of Christians, Greeks and Muslims, and bafflement in the face of failure and God's imponderable purposes"--Back cover image

Sincetheir first publication in 1593, the beauty and complexity of the verses by Valencian poet Ausiàs March have constituted a challenge forhis readers. This study presents an in-depth analysis of the poet's languagethat usesan innovative methodology in the field of literary studies: the analysis of word combinations – collocations –with the support of ICT. Elena Sánchez López, University of Alicante, Spain.

Invisible biographies: marginalisation and marginality / Vicent Josep Escartí -- Magnum oculum et parvum os: Dones i silenci en la predicació de sant Vicent Ferrer / Maria Luz Mandingorra Llavata -- Vida quotidiana i marginalitat femenina a la València del segle XV / Anna Isabel Peirats Navarro -- Brujas y conversas: una lectura cultural de los procesos de la Inquisición Veneciana / Paola Bellomi -- Violence against women in Pere Joan Porcar's Dietari (16th-17th centuries) / Rafael Roca -- Women and carnal abstinence: female sinners and the Easter festivities in 16th-century Valencia / Pilar Valor Moncho -- Humble but non-compliant: modest women defending their rights in Early Modern Catalonia / Josep Capdeferro -- Bandolers, execucions i cobles populars, arran d'uns fets ocorreguts a la Conca d'Òdena (1573): bandits, executions and chapbooks, as a result of acts that took place in the Conca d'Òdena (1573) / Àlex Llinares Planells -- Els processos criminals del segle XVI, espill lingüístic de la vida social / Emili Casanova -- Anatomy of a murder: The death of the provincial of the preachers order in Aragon, Brother Domènec de Montemayor, in 1534 / Emilio Callado Estela -- Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa: Le cameriere, l'amante e la strega, voci di dentro e identità velate / Anna Maria Compagna -- The mystery of obedience: La Boétie, Foucault at the margins of power / Andrea Nicolini -- The treatment of homosexuality in Valencian diaristic literature throughout the late 15th and early 16th centuries / Vicent Josep Escartí -- The inquisition against Friar Miquel de Morales, Trinitarian of Sant Bernat Monastery in Alzira (1574) / editor Jacob Mompó -- Aspetti della marginalità sessuale in alcuni romanzi medievali: aspects of sexual marginality in some medieval novels / Anna Maria Babbi -- Pain and faith: Aristocratic private life in the early modern Valencian kingdom throughout Català de Valleriola's Diary / Carles Fenollosa -- Als marges de la història de l'art: el pintor de cofres de València vers el 1400 / Francesc Granell -- Nota sobre Hernando Cabrera, carceller de la Inquisició de València (1515-1541) / Albert Toldrà i Vilardell -- Uses of TEI-XML for editing ancient texts dealing with marginal and queer lives / Rosanna Cantavella.

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