Entangled East and West
Title | Entangled East and West PDF eBook |
Author | Simo Mikkonen |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2018-12-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110570602 |
Despite increasing scholarship on the cultural Cold War, focus has been persistently been fixed on superpowers and their actions, missing the important role played by individuals and organizations all over Europe during the Cold War years. This volume focuses on cultural diplomacy and artistic interaction between Eastern and Western Europe after 1945. It aims at providing an essentially European point of view on the cultural Cold War, providing fresh insight into little known connections and cooperation in different artistic fields. Chapters of the volume address photography and architecture, popular as well as classical music, theatre and film, and fine arts. By examining different actors ranging from individuals to organizations such as universities, the volume brings new perspective on the mechanisms and workings of the cultural Cold War. Finally, the volume estimates the pertinence of the Cold War and its influence in post-1991 world. The volume offers an overview on the role culture played in international politics, as well as its role in the Cold War more generally, through interesting examples and case studies.
East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries)
Title | East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries) PDF eBook |
Author | Rolando Minuti |
Publisher | Firenze University Press |
Pages | 230 |
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Genre | History |
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«History has to reorient», as the historian and sociologist Andre Gunder Frank observed. In the global or globalised age, a culture is no longer regarded as a discrete entity, but rather as a hybrid formation that interacts with other cultures in an incessant process of multidirectional exchange. Bringing together «Eastern» and «Western» case studies ranging from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, this volume reminds historians that to conduct transcultural analyses they need to be alert to the multiple ways, comic intents included, in which difference is negotiated within contacts and encounters – from selective appropriation to rejection or resistance.
The Prester John Legend between East and West During the Crusades
Title | The Prester John Legend between East and West During the Crusades PDF eBook |
Author | Ahmed M. A. Sheir |
Publisher | Trivent Publishing |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2022-06-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 6156405291 |
This book considers the history of the Prester John legend and its impact on the Crusades, investigating its entangled mythical history between East and West during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The present study thus responds to the still pressing need for a comprehensive historical investigation of the twelfth and thirteenth crusading history of the legend and its impact on the Muslim-Crusader encounters, examining various Latin, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic accounts. It further reflects on new eastern aspects of the legend, presenting a new Arab scholarly view. This book first charts a pre-history of the legend in the late ancient Christian prophecy of the Last Emperor down to the emergence of the legend in the mid-twelfth century. Second, the work presents a historical discussion of the legend and its association with actual occurrences in the Far East and the Levant, analysing the legend history under the crusading crisis and the imperial papal schism in Europe. Meanwhile, the work considers the vague Prester John Letter addressed to Manuel I Komnenus, Byzantine Emperor, and its elaborate conception of a mythical eastern kingdom, revealing imaginative parallels on the wondrous East and legendary Eastern Christian kings in Arabic Muslim and Christian accounts of the Muslim geographer and cartographer al-Idrisi, the Coptic Abu al-Makarim and the Syriac Ibn al-'Ibri (Bar Hebraeus), among others. Moreover, the book examines how the legend impacted war and peace processes between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders during the Fifth Crusade against Egypt (1217-1221), revealing how it was mingled with Arabic and Eastern Christian prophecies at the time. The study concludes by investigating the perception of Prester John by the papal and European envoys to the Mongols in the thirteenth century, revealing how the legend was instrumentalised (and even weaponised) to establish a Latin-Mongol crusade through a parallel exploration of relevant Latin, Arabic and Syriac sources.
East and West Entangled (17.-21. Centuries)
Title | East and West Entangled (17.-21. Centuries) PDF eBook |
Author | Rolando Minuti |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789791221504 |
Beyond the Divide
Title | Beyond the Divide PDF eBook |
Author | Simo Mikkonen |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2015-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1782388672 |
Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide. Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were institutions, organizations, and individuals who brought people from the East and the West together, joined by shared professions, ideas, and sometimes even through marriage. The volume aims at proving that the post-WWII histories of Western and Eastern Europe were entangled by looking at cases involving France, Denmark, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, and others.
Entangled Far Rights
Title | Entangled Far Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Marlene Laruelle |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2018-11-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822986345 |
Since the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, Russia’s support to the European far right—and to a variety of populist leaders more globally—has become a cornerstone of the West’s perception of Moscow as a “spoiler” on the international scene. The fact that Russia’s most fervent supporters are now to be found on the right of the ideological spectrum should not be a surprise. The European far right has always had Russophile tendencies, but these were obscured during the Cold War, when rightist politics were most of all anti-Communist. Entangled Far Rights traces the “intellectual romance” that existed between European far right groups and their Russian-Soviet counterparts during the twentieth century and accounts for their recent re-emergence.
East and West Entangled
Title | East and West Entangled PDF eBook |
Author | Rolando Minuti |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789791221504 |