Chaos from the Ancient World to Early Modernity

Chaos from the Ancient World to Early ModernityChaos is a perennial source of fear and fascination. The original "formless void" (tohu wa bohu) mentioned in the book of Genesis, chaos precedes the created world: a state of anarchy before the establishment of cosmic order. But chaos has frequently also been conceived of as a force that persists in the cosmos and in society and threatens to undo them both. From the cultures of the ancient Near East and the Old Testament to early modernity, notions

Warner uncovers a buried and neglected history of the way in which the idea of the novel was shaped in response to a newly vigorous market in popular narratives

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Eine allgemeine Einführung in die Besonderheiten mittelhochdeutscher Literatur und eine Auswahlbibliographie mit den wichtigsten Hilfsmitteln für das Studium der Germanistischen Mediävistik runden das Buch ab

1926 gipfelte die seit 1918 intensive politische Diskussion zum Umgang mit dem konfiszierten Eigentum der in der Revolution entmachteten Fürsten in Volksbegehren und Volksentscheid

First published in 2005

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hundreds of millions of people are facing poverty in the midst of untold wealth

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With oil resources approaching their limits

Now updated with a preface reflecting on the critical stakes of the book’s exploration of refuge in light of events that have transpired in and beyond Europe since its initial publication

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