Examines how it is part of the human condition to try and reconcile acts committed under former systems of thought with contemporary ideology, focusing on the attempts of the people and governments of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia to face their Communist pasts.
the social and cultural context of European witchcraft
Briggs, Robin
1996
Discusses the widespread belief in witches in early-modern Europe, considers the extent to which that belief pervaded society, and examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ways of living and thinking led to the great persecutions of the era.
Sixteen-year-old Jason Becker travels back in time to Flanders, 1568, where he saves a young girl from hanging, by marrying her and fighting against the Duke of Alba and his Council of Blood.
Fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, in 1897, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered.
Restricted by the authorities from practicing Catholicism and forbidden by her parents from seeing a Puritan boy, Susanna, the daughter of William Shakespeare, vents her anger by writing in a journal and composing a play.
Describes five escapes from religious oppression, from three continents in three centuries, of individuals or groups representing five different faiths who were willing to risk everything they had for the chance to worship freely.
Traces the ascent of Mary Tudor to power in sixteenth-century England and discusses the burning at the stake of nearly three hundred Protestants during her brief reign.
In England in 1662, a time of religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and seventeen-year-old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds.
