The current work historically reconstructs the role played by the Brazilian Catholic Church during the military dictatorship that governed the country from 1964 to 1985. […]
Category: History
The Tenth Circle. Notes for a disability history
Accompanied by Virgil, Dante visited all nine circles, where the irredeemable wicked are punished for eternity; but in the belly of that appalling place he […]
Empire and Communities. A Utopia or a Hope Against the Decline of Europe
The reduction of the shares of internal sovereignty, the emergence of transnational or international authorities, the overcoming power of financial systems underline the inadequacy of […]
Representations of the Other and Intercultural Experiences in a Global Perspective (16th-20th Centuries)
The cohabitation of different cultures and the rise of new cultural and social clashes in more or less wide contexts (nation-states, macro- areas, civilizations) has […]
A History of the Iconoclastic Controversy
This book reports the most famous dispute between the Church and the State over the presence of paintings, mosaics, and statues in churches, in the […]
The Oriental Cults in Roman Britain
What are the reasons behind the contamination of oriental cults in Roman Britain? What circumstances led to this spiritual upheaval, the results of which contributed […]
The history of Abyssinia
This book presents a scrupulous and clear account of the history of Abyssinia: from the earliest records of it to the events of 1935. The book describes the country, the people, but also the legendary origin of the kingdom.