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Border regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and the trans-Volta (Ghana/Togo), we can see that the geographical margins have shaped notional centres at least as much as the reverse. Through a study of three centuries of history, this book demonstrates that states were forged through an extended process of converting a topography of settled states and slaving frontiers into colonial borders. It argues that post-colonial states and larger social contracts have been configured very differently as a consequence. It underscores the impact on regional dynamics and the phenomenon of peripheral urbanism. Nugent also addresses the manner in which a variegated sense of community has been forged amongst Mandinka, Jola, Ewe and Agotime populations who have both shaped and been shaped by the border. This is an exercise in reciprocal comparison and shuttles between scales, from the local and the particular to the national and the regional. -- Provided by publisher

Les circonstances se prêtèrent au rapprochement entre le Portugal et la France entre 1940 et 1944, les deux régimes ayant de profondes affinités. Mais l'entrée en jeu de De Gaulle et du général Giraud va brouiller les cartes. Pendant quelques mois, trois représentations diplomatiques françaises seront présentes simultanément à Lisbonne

Introduction: The shameful business of betrayal and treason / Larissa Tracy -- Wiglaf's sword : the coming of the state / Frank Battaglia -- In sickness and in health : the Boethian narrative of the two Geralds of Brecon / Sarah J. Sprouse -- Treasonous and dishonorable conduct : the private dimension of treason and chivalric reform in late medieval Florence / Peter Sposato -- Royal punishment and reconciliation in Trastamara Castile / Samuel A. Claussen -- "A somewhat too cruel vengeance was taken for the blood of the slain" : royal punishment of rebels, traitors, and political enemies in medieval Scotland, c. 1100-c. 1250 / Iain A. MacInnes -- Revolt in heaven : Lucifer's treason in Genesis B / Daniel Thomas -- Blessed betrayal : the opportunity of treachery in Anglo-Latin ecclesiastical texts / Sally Shockro -- Legal ramifications of ordeals and treason in Morant und Galie / Tina Boyer -- Religious identity, loyalty, and treason in the Cycle du Roi / Ana Grinberg -- Traitors respond : English Catholic polemical strategies against accusations of treason at the end of the sixteenth century / Freddy C. Dominguez -- Treason and deception in late medieval German romances and novels Konigin Sibille, Melusine, and Malagis / Albrecht Classen -- Treacherous women at King Arthur's court : punishment and shame / Inna Matyushina -- Treason and the feast in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur / Melissa Ridley Elmes -- 'Tis fearful sleeping in a serpent's bed' : Arden of Faversham and the threat of the petty traitor / Dianne Berg -- The spatial configuration of shame in La Princesse de Cleves / Susan Small -- Conclusion: The shame game, from Guinevere to Cersei : adultery, treason, and betrayal / Larissa Tracy.

Wie Menschen im Alter lebten, sofern sie überhaupt ein höheres Alter erreichten, hing stark mit gesellschaftlichem Stand, Beruf und Geschlecht zusammen. Wer nicht zur Oberschicht gehörte oder von der Familie versorgt werden konnte, musste häufig lebenslange Arbeit leisten und bittere Armut erdulden. Der gängige Wunsch, "bittet, dass ich wohl sterbe und seelig werde", beschreibt die Drangsal alter Menschen im Diesseits und die bange Hoffnung auf Belohnung für ihre Mühen im Jenseits. Eleonora Kohler-Gehrig entwirft eine facettenreiche Sozialgeschichte des Alters vom 16. bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Besonderes Augenmerk widmet sie der Frage, wie die unterschiedlichen Schichten ihren Lebensunterhalt im Alter zu sichern suchten.

"The interaction between Byzantium and the Latin West was intimately connected to practically all the major events and developments which shaped the medieval world in the High and Late Middle Ages - for example, the rise of the 'papal monarchy', the launch of the crusades, the expansion of international and long-distance commerce, or the flowering of the Renaissance. This volume explores not only the actual avenues of interaction between the two sides (trade, political and diplomatic contacts, ecclesiastical dialogue, intellectual exchange, armed conflict), but also the image each side had of the other and the way perceptions evolved over this long period in the context of their manifold contact. Twenty-one stimulating papers offer new insights and original research on numerous aspects of this relationship, pooling the expertise of an international group of scholars working on both sides of the Byzantine-Western 'divide', on topics as diverse as identity formation, ideology, court ritual, literary history, military technology and the economy, among others. The particular contribution of the research presented here is the exploration of how cross-cultural relations were shaped by the interplay of the thought-world of the various historical agents and the material circumstances which circumscribed their actions. The volume is primarily aimed at scholars and students interested in the history of Byzantium, the Mediterranean world, and, more widely, intercultural contacts in the Middle Ages"--