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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2019

        Jacopo da Varagine's Chronicle of the city of Genoa

        by C. E. Beneš, Rosemary Horrox

        This book offers the first English translation of the Chronicle of the city of Genoa by the thirteenth-century Dominican Jacopo da Varagine, an author best known for his monumental book of saints' lives, the Golden legend. Jacopo's Chronicle presents a coherent vision of Genoa's place in history, the cosmos and Creation as written by the city's own archbishop - mixing eyewitness accounts with scholarly research about the city's origins and didactic reflections on the proper conduct of public and private life. Accompanied by an extensive introduction, this complete translation provides a unique perspective on a dynamic medieval city-state from one of its most important officials, broadening the available literature in English on medieval Italian urban life.

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        Und kreuzigten ihn

        Meditationen und Bilder aus zwei Jahrtausenden. ("Lese-Zeichen")

        by Weber, Hans R / Englisch Beneš, Dorothea

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2019

        Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England

        by Lindy Brady, T. J. H. McCarthy, Stephen Mossman, Carrie Beneš, Jochen Schenk

        This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Its conclusions significantly alter our current picture of Anglo/Welsh relations before the Norman Conquest by overturning the longstanding critical belief that relations between these two peoples during this period were predominately contentious. Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates that the region which would later become the March of Wales was not a military frontier in Anglo-Saxon England, but a distinctively mixed Anglo-Welsh cultural zone which was depicted as a singular place in contemporary Welsh and Anglo-Saxon texts. This study reveals that the region of the Welsh borderlands was much more culturally coherent, and the impact of the Norman Conquest on it much greater, than has been previously realised.

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      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        October 2020

        Als Großvater im Jahr 1927 mit einer Bombe in den Dorfbach sprang, um die Weltrevolution in Gang zu setzen

        by Lothar Becker

        Eigentlich hätte Großvater lieber per Dekret die Dummheit verboten. Doch sein Freund Herbert, der im Dorf die Hühner schlachtet und wie er eher versehentlich in die Kommunistische Partei eingetreten ist, hat eine andere Idee, wie man die Weltrevolution in Gang setzt: natürlich mit einer Bombe in einer Machtzentrale der herrschenden Klasse! Nachdem ein erster Anschlag auf eine unschuldige Rathaustreppe im Nachbarort noch nicht ganz den gewünschten Erfolg erzielt, flüchtet er mit seiner neuen Freundin Else nach Wien und gerät in die Fänge von Genosse Schmidt und Genossin Olga, die einen weitaus größeren Beweis für seine Loyalität zur Partei einfordern: Er soll den Stephansdom sprengen. Lothar Beckers liebevoll-grotesker Roman ist eine ironische Abrechnung mit Ideologien, Weltanschauungen und den mit ihnen verbundenen Heilserwartungen.

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        IVANA IN FRONT OF THE SEA

        by VERONIKA SIMONITI

        Winner of THE KRESNIK AWARD 2020 for the best novel in Slovenia.       Rights sold to Croatia, Serbia, Albania and China!     IVANA IN FRONT OF THE SEA (Ivana pred morjem) The narrator returns from Paris, where she has created a home for herself, to the Primorje region in Slovenia in order to clear the apartment that belonged to her late mother for a serious buyer, and in a heap of yellowed photographs she finds a picture of her grandmother, holding her five-year old mother’s hand, whilst her other hand lies on her pregnant stomach. The year it was taken, 1943, was one of troubling events and rapid change. What happened to the unborn child? Through a number of parallel stories taking place at different times and generations of one family, Veronika Simoniti’s novel presents the reader with the collective past and individual fates. These move between Paris and Primorska, also stopping in Gorenjska, Ljubljana and many other places, even in Serbia as refugees, but all this movement cannot break the human bonds. Even the hard times after the war are written about in the author’s gentle manner, looking from ever new standpoints at what we share. A beautiful novel about unattractive times and things.

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        THE FIRST LADY

        by STANKA HRASTELJ

        THE FIRST LADY (Prva dama) This novel is a reworking, in minimalist style and condensed manner, of the Biblical story of the beautiful Bathsheba and King David. The king’s “controversial” wife is an archetypal femme fatale, who is aware of her charms also in an emancipatory sense and, regardless of the means and victims, in an almost mathematically calculating way exchanges them for a “better” life – marriage to the educated king loved by his people and through this a climb up the social ladder, a better position, and consequently better pay and independence. Although Bathsheba’s life seems like a fairy tale, inside her grows a nagging feeling of guilt. Using fate and god as an excuse does not bring her peace, but pushes her towards self-destructive behaviour.

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