“…Based on recent theories of city-port development, the ethnographic studies in this volume focus on local stakeholders' perceptions and strategies in port cities in Europe and Latin America. This book covers a wide variety of urban fields, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway sailors and new forms of migration and exile, to active agents of urban transformation »[Ein] unbedingt lesenswerter Sammelband [...].« Daniel Kalt, dérive 36, 7-9 (2009) Reviewed in: RaumPlanung, 141 (2008), Sandra Huning…”

“…Written in 1567, it was published for the first time in 1603 in French and, later, had great influence in the Germanic area thanks to its Latin version. The bilingual edition we now offer is the first to appear in a modern language. …”

“…Al-Maqrīzī's work shows how Arab historians integrated Iran into world history and how they harmonized various currents of historiography (Middle Persian historiography, Islamic sacred history, Greek and Latin historiography). Among al-Ḫabar' s sources is Kitāb Hurūšiyūš , the Arabic translation of Paulus Orosius' Historiarum adversum paganos libri vii. …”

“…The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Latin-American…”

“…En 1573, tras San Bartolomé, el monarcómaco François Hotman (1524-1590) publicó en latín su Francogallia; libro que con el tiempo se convirtió en una de las bases del constitucionalismo moderno y así de nuestros actuales sistemas democráticos. …”

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“…La Guía espiritual fue traducida al latín, francés, holandés, italiano, alemán e inglés; en quince años hubo veinte ediciones en diversas lenguas. …”

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