European history

Although most historians have sought the roots of atheism in the history of "e;free thought,"e; Alan Charles Kors contends that attacks on the existence of God were generated above all by the vitality and controversies of orthodox theistic culture itself.

In July 1980, two weeks before the Gdansk shipyard strikes, Roman Laba arrived in Poland as an American graduate student.

Traditionally, the legitimists of early Third Republican Prance have been dismissed as historical anachronisms.

In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by cultural, religious, and legal authorities on the grounds that it disrupted family blood lines.

Federico Chabod (1901-1960) was one of Italy's best-known historians, noted for his study of Italian history in a European context.

From Subject to Citizen offers an original account of the Second Empire (1852-1870) as a turning point in modern French political culture: a period in which thinkers of all political persuasions combined forces to create the participatory democracy alive in France today.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,3, Universität Osnabrück (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Die Stadt in der Frühen Neuzeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Frühe Neuzeit.

This volume, together with its predeccessor (Ideas and Institutions, 1969), is an examinataion of the social and economic foreces that helped shape Germany in the mid-nineteenth century.

Die gedachtnispolitischen Debatten der letzten Jahre haben gezeigt, dass soziale Erinnerungen und Gedachtnistraditionen in ihrem Wesen widerspruchlich sind.

In this masterly interpretation of narrative sequence in the Iliad, Keith Stanley not only sharpens the current debate over the date and creation of the poem, but also challenges the view of this work as primarily a celebration of heroic force.

William McCuaig explores the intellectual turbulence of the late Italian Renaissance through a full examination of the work of one scholar--the humanist Carlo Sigonio (1523-84), whose insistence on critical methods for reconstructing the past revolutionized the study of ancient Roman history and the Italian Middle Ages.

Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek "e;imaginary,"e; revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man.

Rebuilding Britain: a survey of problems of reconstruction after the world war presents a thoughtful examination of the challenges facing a nation emerging from the upheaval of global conflict.

Dating can be a royal pain, but who better to guide you through the drama than Henry VIII's six wives?

At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2026 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Fruhe Neuzeit, Note: 1,3, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Um die Templer ranken sich zahlreiche Mythen und Legenden.

The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898The burst of capitalistic expansion that accompanied German unification came to an abrupt end with the crash of 1873, which opened a period of economic depression.

Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner.

Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context.

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2026 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - Erster Weltkrieg, Weimarer Republik, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Eine eigene mehrmals täglich erscheinende Tageszeitung der USPD gab es erst ab dem 15.

Focusing on the highest-ranking segment of the nobility, Mark Motley examines why a social group whose very essence was based on hereditary status would need or seek instruction and training for its young.

Widely regarded as ancient Rome's greatest historian, Tacitus has shaped much of early modern and modern thought on Rome and its emperors.

Widely regarded as ancient Rome's greatest historian, Tacitus has shaped much of early modern and modern thought on Rome and its emperors.

Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious rites.

This work presents the first five hundred of the over 2,000 documents that Robert I.

Marshalling historical materials to make a descriptive argument in social theory, this wide-ranging book compares the liberal revolution in France to the liberal revolutions in England and America and argues that the causes and outcomes of these upheavals were decisive in shaping later patterns of politics.

Throughout the nineteenth century, legal barriers to Jewish citizenship were lifted in Europe, enabling organized Jewish communities and individuals to alter radically their relationships with the institutions of the Christian West.

Thomas Nipperdey offers readers insights into the history and the culture of German nationalism, bringing to light much-needed information on the immediate prenational period of transition.

Measured by its capacity to endure, the Prussian nobility was the most successful in the modern history of continental Europe.

The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany-at-War offers a penetrating exploration of a nation engulfed in the turmoil of World War I.

At the end of the sixteenth century, when painters, writers, and scientists from all over Europe flocked to Rome for creative inspiration, the city was also becoming the center of a vibrant and assertive Roman Catholic culture.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2,0, Universität Osnabrück, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hausarbeit analysiert den Malleus Maleficarum (Hexenhammer) von Heinrich Institoris (ca.

Between 1870 and 1960, national boundaries became more evident on the demographic map of Western Europe.

Historians have frequently portrayed Italian anarchism as a marginal social movement that was doomed to succumb to its own ideological contradictions once Italian society modernized.

Why do artists, poets, philosophers, writers, and others who are usually classified as intellectuals leave the ivory tower to "e;dirty their hands"e; in the political arena?

This book demonstrates how monarchy adjusted to the contours of modernity in remarkably diverse kinds of ways and contexts, preserving a central role in the configuration of the post-revolutionary world.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Europa Nachkriegszeit, Note: 3, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (Zeitgeschichte), Veranstaltung: Seminar aus den Räumen und Dimensionen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Seminararbeit untersucht die komplexen und oft kontroversen Beziehungen zwischen österreichischen Frauen und US-Soldaten in der Nachkriegszeit von 1945 bis 1955.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 2,0, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Historisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Mittelalterliche Geschichte Thüringische Landesgeschichte Bachelorarbeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In diesem Jahr jährt sich der Deutsche Bauernkrieg zum 500.

This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system during the Weimar Republic.

Bringing Their Mother Home examines the worship of the Greco-Phrygian goddess Cybele, known as the Magna Mater in Rome, to understand the ways that the mid- to late-Roman Republic constructed and performed a multicultural, multiethnic identity.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europas - Mittelalter, Frühe Neuzeit, Note: 1,0, Technische Universität Dresden (Institut für Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Europa vor Karl dem Großen: Die Merowinger, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die christliche Bevölkerung im Mittelalter war von großer Gottesfurcht geprägt, weshalb wundersame und unerklärliche Erscheinungen oder Ereignisse häufig mithilfe der Bibel gedeutet und als göttliche Zeichen angesehen wurden.

Bringing Their Mother Home examines the worship of the Greco-Phrygian goddess Cybele, known as the Magna Mater in Rome, to understand the ways that the mid- to late-Roman Republic constructed and performed a multicultural, multiethnic identity.

As a major piece of historical detective work.

Emma Warhover's Humor in the Historical Works of Tacitus explores how the ancient Roman historian Tacitus incorporated humor into his historical works, and unveils the significance of these humorous motifs.

The first book-length presentation on the social origins of the prewar SS leadership, this volume offers a complete picture of the men who, between 1925 and 1939, joined the vanguard of National Socialism and rose to the rank of SS-Fuhrer.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Europa, Note: 2,0, Universität Münster, Veranstaltung: Der lange Schatten des Nationalsozialismus, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die komplexe und oft erschütternde Geschichte des Lebensborn e.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Europa, Note: 1,3, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Historisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Die Herausbildung der römischen Nobilität, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Frage nach der Ausgestaltung des römischen Oberamtes in frührepublikanischer Zeit ist umstritten.

Most historical scholarship concerned with the Fronde has investigated the Parlement of Paris.

The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a rigid society.