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In May 1991, having received threats that terrified him, rising academic star Ioan Culianu entrusted a colleague with a mysterious set of papers. A week later, Culianu was murdered. What was in those mysterious papers? And what connection might they have to Culianu's death? The papers eventually passed into the hands of Bruce Lincoln, and their story is at the heart of this book.

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In Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and Pre-Islamic mythologies, religions and cultural issues.

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Cosa accadde in Russia nel 2017, dopo che Lenin e i suoi ebbero preso il potere? La fine della Rivoluzione non significò anche la fine degli scontri, anzi segnò l'inizio di una lunga guerra civile destinata a protrarsi fino al 1921, che vide la popolazione divisa tra i bolscevichi (i Rossi) e i controrivoluzionari (i Bianchi), appoggiati dalle forze armate di quattordici potenze straniere e da una dozzina di gruppi nazionali in lotta per l'ind...

Lincoln mounts an argument for the value of comparison, which is often derided as limited and limiting, instead, he shows how carefully considered comparisons can illuminate both subjects.

Lincoln mounts an argument for the value of comparison, which is often derided as limited and limiting, instead, he shows how carefully considered comparisons can illuminate both subjects.

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The Indiana U. Press edition (1978) is cited in BCL3 . A scholarly biography that provides a view of Russian autocracy. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The first decade of Alexander II's reign is known in Russian history as the Era of the Great Reforms, a time recognized as the major period of social, economic, and institutional transformation between the reign of Peter the Great and the Revolution of 1905. Coming directly after the notoriously repressive last decade of the Nicholas era, the appearance of such dramatic reform has led scholars to seek its causes in dramatic events. Surely some...

The Great Reforms of the 1860s marked the broadest attempt at social and economic renovation to occur in Russia between the death of Peter the Great in 1725 and the Revolution of 1905. In just more than a decade, imperial reform acts freed Russia's serfs, restructured her courts, established institutions of local self-government in parts of the empire, altered the constraints that censorship imposed on the press, and transformed Russia's vast ...

One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized prototypical Indo-European religion. Written over fifteen years, the essays--six of them previously unpublished--fall into three parts. Part I deals with matters "Indo-European" in a relatively unproblematized way, exploring a set of haunting images that recur in desc...

Assembles a collection of essays that both illustrates and reveals the benefits of his methodology, making a case for a critical religious studies that starts with skepticism but is neither cynical nor crude. This book tackles many questions central to religious study.

For three centuries--beginning with the accession of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in 1613--the Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia. Its reign ended with the execution of Nicholas II and Alexandra in the early 20th century. Noted Russian scholar W. Bruce Lincoln has brilliantly portrayed the achievement, significance and high drama of the Dynasty as no previous book has done. His use of rare archival materials has allowed him to present a portrait of t...

PrefaceI: Mythos among the Greeks1. The Prehistory of Mythos and Logos2. From Homer through PlatoII: A Modern History of Myth3. The History of Myth from the Renaissance to the Second World War4. Sir William's Myth of Origins5. Nietzsche's "Blond Beast": A Genealogy6. Dumezil's German War GodIII: New Directions7. From the Second World War to the Present (and Possibly a Little Beyond)8. Plutarch's Sibyl9. Gautrek's Saga and the Gift Fox10. Once ...

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