USKOK 1
. Catherine Wendy Bracewell,
The Uskoks ofSenj: piracy, banditry, and holy war in the sixteenth century Adriatic
(Cornell, Ithaca, 1991).
USURY 1
. See J. Shatzmiller,
Shylock Reconsidered: Jews, Moneylending and Medieval Society
(Berkeley, Calif., 1989), reviewed in
New York Review of Books
, 36/21–2 (18 Jan. 1990).
2
. K. B. McFarlane, ‘Loans to the Lancastrian Kings: The Problem of Inducement’,
Cambridge Historical Journal
, 9 (1947–9), 57–68.
UTOPIA 1
. Sir Thomas More,
Utopia
, trans. Raphe Robynson, 1552 (Cambridge, 1879) (17th repr., 1952).
2
. See Isaiah Berlin,
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas
(Oxford, 1979); also H. Hardy (ed.),
The Crooked Timbers of Humanity: Essays in the History of Ideas
(London, 1991).
3
. Vercors,
Le Silence de la mer, et autres récits
(Paris, 1951) > 19–43.
4
. K. Moczarski,
Rozmowy z katem
, trans, as
Conversations with an Executioner
(London, 1974).
VALTELLINA 1
. See Geoffrey Parker,
The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567–1659
(Cambridge, 1972). On Sfurzat wine, see G. Dalmass, ‘The Wines of Italy’,
The Great Book of Wine
(Lausanne, 1970), 221.
VENDANGE 1
. See E. Le Roy Ladurie,
Histoire du climat depuis l’an mille
(Paris, 1967), trans, as
Times of Feast, Times of Famine: A History of Climate Since the Year 1000
(New York, 1971); H. Lamb,
Climate, History and the Modern World
(London, 1982); also Sir Crispin Tickell, ‘Climate and History’, Radcliffe Lecture (Oxford, 1994).
2
. Le Roy Ladurie,
Times of Feast, Times of Famine
, ch. 2.
3
. Ibid. ch. 3, ‘Problems of the Little Ice Age’.
VENDÉMIAIRE 1
. H. Morse Stephens,
Revolutionary Europe, 1789–1815
(London, 1936), app. vi: ‘Concordance of Republican and Gregorian Calendars’, 374–5.
VINO 1
. J.-F. Gautier,
Histoire du Vin
(Paris, 1992). See also H. Warner Allen,
A History of Wine
(London, 1961).
2
. Gautier, op. cit. p. 99.
3
. Hugh Johnson,
World Atlas of Wine
(London, 1971), p. 191.
VIOLETS 1
. D. Ackerman, ‘Smell’, in
A Natural History of the Senses
(London, 1990), 3–63.
2
. See Alain Corbin,
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odours and the French Social Imagination
(Leamington Spa, 1986).
3
. S. Ferenczi,
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality
(1938; repr. London, 1989).
VLAD 1
. M. Cazacu, ‘Il Potere, la Ferocitá, e le Leggende di Vlad III, Conté Dracula’,
Storia
(Firenze), iii, no. 15,10–16; see also C. Leatherdale,
The Origins ofDracula: the background to Bram Stoker’s Gothic masterpiece
(London, 1987); A. Mackenzie,
A journey into the past of Transylvania
(London, 1990); S. Pascu,
A History of Transylvania
(Detroit, 1982).
2
. John Foxe,
The new and complete Book of Martyrs, or an universal history of martyrdom
, revised & corrected (London, 1811–17).
VORKUTA 1
. See Paul Hollander, ‘Soviet Terror, American Amnesia’,
National Review
, 2 May 1944,28–39.
2
. J. Scholmer,
Vorkuta
(London, 1954); Edward Buca,
Vorkuta
(Constable, London, 1976); also Bernard Grywacz, interviewed by Caroline Moorhead, ‘Out of the Darkness’,
Independent Magazine
, 26 Jan. 1991.
3
. Avraham Shifrin,
The First Guidebook to the Prisons and Concentration Camps of the Soviet Union
(Seewis, GR, Switzerland, 1980), 2nd edn. (London, 1981); on Vorkuta, pp. 203–9. See also R. Conquest,
Kolyma: the Arctic Death Camps
(London, 1978).
4
. Shifrin, op. cit. 31–5.
5
. Personal visit, Oct. 1991.
6
. ‘80,000 ghosts return to haunt Moscow’, the
Independent, 6
Sept. 1989.
WASTE LAND 1
. T. S. Eliot,
The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts with the Annotations of Ezra Pound
, ed. Valerie Eliot (London, 1971), 5,135, 145, 148, 1.
WIENER WELT 1
. Stephen Beller,
Vienna and the Jews 1867–1938 A Cultural History
(Cambridge, 1989), esp. 34–7.
2
. Ibid,
passim
.
3
. Martin Freud, ‘Who Was Freud?’, in J. Fraenkel (ed.),
The Jews of Austria: Essays on Their Life, History and Destruction
(London, 1967), 197–211.
4
. Joseph Roth, quoted by R. S. Wistrich,
The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz-Joseph
(Oxford, 1990).
5
. Rabbi Gudemann to Kamilla Theimer, 19 Dec. 1907, quoted by J. Fraenkel, ‘The Chief Rabbi and the Visionary’, in Fraenkel,
The Jews of Austria
, 115–17.
XATIVAH 1
. See David Hunter,
Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft
(London, 1947); also J. Dabrowski and J. Siniarska-Czaplicka,
Rękodzieto papiernicze
(The Papermaking Craft) (Warsaw, 1991), with extensive English summaries.
ZADRUGA 1
. Maria Todorova, ‘Myth-Making in European Family History: The Zadruga Revisited’,
East European Politics and Society
, 4(1) (1991), 30–69.
ZEUS 1
. M. J. Price, ‘The Statue of Zeus at Olympia’, in P. Clayton and M. J. Price,
The Seven Wonders of the World
(London, 1988), 59–77.
LIST OF CAPSULES
ABKHAZIA 816
ADELANTE 983–4
AGOBARD 304
ALCHEMIA 53–1
ALCOFRIBAS 541
ALPI 57
ALTMARKT 414–15
ANGELUS 407
ANNALES 955–6
ANNO DOMINI 267–8
APOCALYPSE 196
AQUILA 157
AQUINCUM 159
ARCHIMEDES 125
ARICIA 161–2
ATHLETES 127–8
ATHOS 319
AUC I52–3
AUSCHWITZ 1026–7
BALLETTO 472
BAMBINI 863
BARBAROS 103
BARD 548
BASERRIA 639
BATAVIA 540
BATT-101 1022–3
BAUME 269–70
BENZ 769
BERNADETTE 798–9
BIBLIA 282–3
BLACK ATHENA 138
BLARNEY 550
B.N.R. 933
BOGEY 972–3
BOGUMIL 322–3
BOUBOULINA 732
BOXER 852
BRIE 299
BRITO 264–5
BUCZACZ 1034–5
BUDA 367–8
C14 68
CABALA 396–7
CADMUS 116–17
CANTATA 660
CANTUS 271–3
CAP-AG 583–4
CARITAS 778–9
CATACOMBI 204
CAUCASIA 734–5
CEDROS 163
CHASSE 422–3
CHASTITY 198–9
CHERNOBYL 855–6
CHERSONESOS 105–6
CHOUAN 708
CODPIECE 427
COMBRAY 867
COMENIUS 609–10
COMPOSTELA 278
COMPUTATIO 402
CONCLAVE 398
CONDOM 183–4
CORSICA 628
CONSPIRO 352
CORVINA 522
COWARD 911
CRAVATE 615
CRUX 194–5
CSABA 218
DANNEBROG 363
DANUVIUS 64
DASA 79–80
DEMOS 130–1
DESSEIN 662–3
DEVIATIO 454
DIABOLOS 202
DING 297
DIRHAM 295–6
DOLLAR 525
DÖNHOFF 1043–4
DOUAUMONT 905
E = MC
2
857
ECO 99–100
EESTI 944
EGNATIA 156
EIRIK 329–30
EL CID 348
ELDLUFT 642
ELEKTRON 124
ELEMENTA 791–2
ELSASS 622–3
EMU 1007
EPIC 114–15
EPIDEMIA 233
EPIGRAPH 175–6
EROS 596
ETRUSCHERIA 154
EULENBURG 876–7
EULER 600
FAMINE 832–3
FARAON 985
FAROE 63
FATIMA 917
FAUSTUS 495
FEMME 716–17
FIESTA 337–8
FLAGELLATIO 474–5
FLAMENCO 533
FLORA 908
FOLLY 860
FREUDE 684–5
FUTHARK 226–7
GAGAUZ 743–4
GAT-HUNTER 71
GATTOPARDO 825
GAUCHE 696–7
GENES 830
GENOCIDE 909
GENUG 687
GESANG 486–8
GGANTIJA 78
GHETTO 338
GONCALVEZ 452–3
GOOSE STEP 612
GOTHA 808–10
GOTHIC 356–7
GOTTHARD 58–9
GRECO 562–3
GRILLENSTEIN 724
GROSSENMEBR 650–1
GROTE MARKT 626–7
GUERRILLA 736
GUILLOTIN 700
HANSA 340–1
HARVEST 965
HATRED 922–3
HEJNAL 365
HEPTANESOS 740
HERMANN 827
HEXEN 566–7
HOLISM 489–90
HOSSBACH 988–9
HYSTERIA 123
IKON 247–8
ILLYRIA 730–1
ILLYRICUM 186
IMPRESSION 866
INDEX 260–1
INFANTA 514–15
INQUISITIO 498–9
IONA 277
JACQUARD 681
JEANS 774
KALEVALA 818
KATYŃ 1004–5
KEELHAUL 1046–7
KHAZARIA 236–7
KONARMYA 936
KONOPIšTE 878
KRAL 307
LANGEMARCK 904
LAUSSEL 72–3
LEONARDO 476
LEPER 279–80
LESBIA 509
LETTLAND 1017
LEX 173
LIETUVA 228
LILI 912–14
LLANFAIR 310
LLOYD’S 630
LOOT 741–2
LUDI 180–1
LUGDUNUM 187–8
LYCZAKOW 924–5
MADONNA 300–1
MAGIC 405–6
MAKEDON 134–5
MALET 746
MARKET 604–5
MARSTON 343–4
MASON 633–4
MASSILIA 107–8
MATRIMONIO 447–8
MAUVE 772–3
MENOCCHI 503
MERCANTE 442–3
METRYKA 723
MEZQUITA 256–7
MICROBE 431
MIR 745
MISSA 331–2
MOARTE 968–9
MOLDOVA 1011
MONKEY 793–4
MONTAILLOU 410–11
MORES 346–7
MOUSIKE 118
MURANO 369–70
NEZ 542
NIBELUNG 230–1
NIKOPOLIS 391
NOBEL 873
NOMEN 168–9
NOMISMA 101
NORGE 738
NOSTRADAMUS 546–7
NOVGOROD 327
NOYADES 706–7
OEDIPUS 120–1
OMPHALOS 112–13
OPERA 532
ORANGE 527–9
OXFAM 1029
PALAEO 241
PANTA 190
PAPESSA 303
PAPYRUS 137
PARNASSE 784
PASCHA 201–2
PETROGRAD 906
PFALZ 305–6
PHILIBEG 635–6
PHOTO 770
PICARO 535–6
PLOVUM 371
POGROM 844
POTEMKIN 658
PRADO 806–7
PRESS 445
PROPAGANDA 500–1
PROSTIBULA 413
PUGACHEV 587–8
QUAKE 640
RELAXATIO 785
RENTES 424–5
RESPONSA 1019–20
REVERENTIA 274–5
ROMANY 387–8
ROUGE 710
RUFINUS 262
RUS’ 656–7
SAMOS 164
SAMPHIRE 82–3
SANITAS 776–7
SARAJEVO 980–1
SCHOLASTIKOS 121
SHAMAN 819
SHQIPERIA 645
SINGULARIS 483
SLAVKOV 727
SLESVIG 930–1
SMOLENSK 1014–15
SOCIALIS 940–1
SONATA 591
SOUND 858–9
SOVKINO 918–19
SPASIT’EL 747
SPARTACUS 166–7
SPICE-OX 109
STATE 456
STRAD 592–3
STRASSBURG 718
SUND 60
SUSANIN 994–5
SYLLABUS 800–1
SYPHILUS 512
SYROP 493
SZLACHTA 585–6
TABARD 418–1
TAIZÉ 1024–5
TAMMUZ 75–6
TAXIS 249–50
TEICHOS 243
TEMPUS 434–5
TEREM 559
THRONOS 83
TOLLUND 85
TONE 957
TOR 720
TORMENTA 543–4
TOUR 864
TRISTAN 223–4
TSCHERNOWITZ 1012
UKRAINA 54–5
USKOK 561
USURY 416
UTOPIA 491
VALTELLINA 537–8
VENDAGE 67
VENÉMIAIRE 698
VINO 77
VIOLETS 728
VLAD 449
VORKUTA 963
WASTE LAND 954
WIENER
WELT 849–50
XATIVAH 350
ZADRUGA 390
ZEUS 263
NOTES ON PLATES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
SECTION 1
(between pages
430–1)
1. EUROPA’S RIDE.
Il ratio dell’Europa
. Hellenistic fresco from ‘the House of Jason’, Pompeii. First quarter of the 1st century
AD.
Both Greeks and Romans treasured the legend of Europa. Museo Nazionale, Naples
Photo: Anderson/Alinari 23469.
2. GATHERERS AND HUNTERS. A composite drawing based on palaeolithic cave art from Teruel and Cogul (Lerida), Spain. Male and female figures combine to present an evocative reconstruction of a sophisticated social order frequently dismissed as that of‘cavemen’.
Drawing by Danyon Rey 1993.
3. MINOAN FISHERMAN. 2nd millennium
BC,
National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Photo: National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
4. PRINCE OF KNOSSOS. Late Minoan. Minoan Crete was unfortified, and pos sessed no warrior caste. Heraklion Museum.
Photo: Ancient Art & Architecture Collection.
5. SYMPOSION—A BANQUET. Greek vase-painting by the Brygos painter (490–480
BC).
The ‘symposium’ provided the setting both for eating, drinking, and love-making and for serious conversation. The men reclined on couches in the oriental fashion. Women and boys did not attend except for the purposes of enter tainment.
Photo: British Museum BM E 60.
6. ETRUSCHERIA. Mural from the Tomb of the Banquet, Tarquinia (c.470
BC).
See
[ETRUSCHERIA].
Photo: Hirmer Fotoarchiv BM E 60.
7. ARCADIAN IDYLL.
Et in Arcadia ego
(1639–43), Nicholas Poussin, bought by Louis XIV in 1683. In the Classical Tradition, Arcadia was the land of pastoral bliss. In Poussin’s famous development of an idea by Guercino, a group of pensive shepherds and nymphs examine the tomb of Daphnis, who died of love, thereby discovering that ‘Even in Arcadia, I (Death) am to be found’. Louvre.