Neil Macgregor: 8 books

Book cover of Shakespeares ruhelose Welt
by Neil MacGregor
Language: German
Release Date: November 7, 2013

Während Shakespeare unvergängliche Werke wie «Romeo und Julia», «Hamlet» oder «Othello» schrieb, ging die Welt durch eine Epoche tiefgreifender Veränderungen. Seit der Entdeckung Amerikas hatten sich die Horizonte Europas dramatisch erweitert, die Reformation spaltete die Christenheit, ein...
Book cover of Shakespeare's Restless World

Shakespeare's Restless World

Portrait of an Era

by Neil MacGregor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focus We feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless and ultimately self-destructive...
Book cover of A History of the World in 100 Objects
by Neil MacGregor
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011

**"An enthralling and profoundly humane book that every civilized person should read." --The Wall Street Journal The blockbuster New York Times bestseller and the companion volume to the wildly popular radio series** When did people first start to wear jewelry or play music?...
Book cover of Living with the Gods

Living with the Gods

On Beliefs and Peoples

by Neil MacGregor
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018

In the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation—the acclaimed art historian now gives us a magnificent new book that explores the relationship between faith and society. Until fairly recently, religion as a major influence...
Book cover of Germany

Germany

Memories of a Nation

by Neil MacGregor
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country,...
Book cover of Leben mit den Göttern
by Neil MacGregor
Language: German
Release Date: October 31, 2018

Ein 40.000 Jahre alter Löwenmann aus Elfenbein, eine goldene Gibla aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, ein Kreuz aus Lampedusa – mit unnachahmlicher Meisterschaft bringt Neil MacGregor all diese faszinierenden Objekte zum Sprechen. Sein neues Buch nimmt uns mit auf eine unvergessliche Reise durch die Welt...
Book cover of Eine Geschichte der Welt in 100 Objekten
by Neil MacGregor
Language: German
Release Date: December 6, 2013

"In diesem Buch machen wir uns auf zu einer Reise zurück in die Vergangenheit und quer über den Globus, um zu erfahren, wie die Menschen in den letzten zwei Millionen Jahren unsere Welt geprägt haben und ihrerseits von ihr geprägt wurden. Diese Geschichte wird ausschließlich erzählt durch...
Book cover of Shadows

Shadows

The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art

by E. H. Gombrich, Neil MacGregor
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014

In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world’s foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented—or ignored—by artists from the Renaissance to the 17th century and then...
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