David Selbourne

Auteur de The City of Light

18 oeuvres 293 utilisateurs 6 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

David Selbourne has been a British Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Chicago, Aneurin Bevan Memorial Fellow, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, and has taught the history of ideas at Ruskin College, Oxford.

Œuvres de David Selbourne

Populaires Récent

The City of Light (1997) — Traducteur — 169 exemplaires

The Principle of Duty: An Essay on the Foundations of the Civic Order (1994) 38 exemplaires

The Making of a Midsummer Night's Dream (1982) 19 exemplaires

An Eye to India (Pelican) (1977) 18 exemplaires

The Losing Battle with Islam (2005) 17 exemplaires

Death of the dark hero : Eastern Europe, 1987-1990 (1990) 7 exemplaires

The Free Society in Crisis: A History of Our Times (2019) 5 exemplaires

Against Socialist Illusion - A Radical Argument (1984) 4 exemplaires

Through the Indian looking-glass: Selected articles on India, 1976-1980 (1982) 4 exemplaires

The Spirit of the Age (1993) 3 exemplaires

An eye to China (1975) 2 exemplaires

The making of A midsummer night's dream : an eye-witness account of Peter Brook's production from first… 1 exemplaire

Dorabella (Playscripts) (1970) 1 exemplaire

Not an Englishman: Conversations With Lord Goodman (1993) 1 exemplaire

A Doctor's Life: Diaries of Hugh Selbourne M.D. (1989) 1 exemplaire

Moral Evasion (1998) 1 exemplaire

Left Behind: Journeys into British Politics (1987) 1 exemplaire

In theory and in practice : essays on the politics of Jayaprakash Narayan (1986) 1 exemplaire

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Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance: 1937-06-04
Sexe: male
Nationalité: UK
Lieu de naissance: London, England, UK

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Critiques

La ciudad de la Luz par Jacobo de Ancona

LA CIUDAD DE LA LUZ

La publicación de esta apasionante obra en Inglaterra ha levantado una de las tempestades intelectuales más virulentas que se recuerdan.
Su editor, David Selbonsne, ha querido demostrar que el mercader Jacobo de Azcona, na llegó a China antes que Maro Polo y como fruto de sus singulares experiencias
en ese excepcional viaje escribiría La Ciudad de la luz, merecedora de los elogiosos comentarios por parte de los medios más prestigiosos, Y aunque no han sido pocos
los que han dudado de la autenticidad del manuscrito, alimentando la polémica durante largo tiempo, lo cierto es que, independientemente de esta controversia,
La ciudad de la luz sigue siendo el relato, escrito con un sorprendente realismo y una sensibilidad excepcional, del maravilloso viaje de Jacobo de Ancona hasta Zaitun, China.… (plus d'informations)

Signalé

URBEZCALVO | 4 autres critiques | Feb 6, 2018 |

The City of Light par Jacob D'Ancona

In 1990, renowned Jewish scholar David Selbourne is shown a manuscript that has lain hidden for seven centuries in a private collection. The manuscript is in medieval Italian and purports to be the first-hand account of a journey made by a Jewish merchant from the town of Ancona in Northern Italy to the city of Zaitun in China in the years 1270 to 1273.

The manuscript details….

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