Historiography

This volume features articles which employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Patristic and Medieval traditions.

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Jonathan Edwards is generally acknowledged as one of the foremost American philosophers.

Transatlantic studies, especially during the enlightenment period, is of increasing critical interest amongst scholars.

On the occasion of the 95th birthday of Helmut Schmidt, West German Chancellor 1974-1982, his biographer Hartmut Soell, Professor of History at Heidelberg University and former member of the German Parliament (1980-1994), presents H.

Ibn Khaldun in Egypt: His Public Functions and His Historical Research (13821406) offers a deep exploration of the transformative years the renowned scholar spent in Cairo, highlighting his dual roles as a public figure and a pioneering historian.

This volume explores the spatial framework of Herodotus' Histories, the Greek historian's account of Persian imperialism in the sixth and fifth century BC and its culmination in a series of grand expeditions against Greece itself.

In this commanding study, Dr Maryks offers a detailed analysis of early modern Jesuit confessional manuals to explore the order's shifting attitudes to confession and conscience.

This book makes a compelling case for utilising experiences of resonance in various academic and societal fields.

This edited collection explores the histories of trade, a peculiar literary genre that emerged in the context of the historiographical and cultural changes promoted by the histoire philosophique movement.

Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals, Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary ways toward some of the same goals.

Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorical vernacular that occupies the "e;middle range"e; of English, bounded on the one side by expressive structure (grammar and linguistics) and on the other by aesthetics (literature).

In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included.

This book studies the complementary features of the thought of David Hume and Edward Gibbon in the complete range of its confrontation with eighteenth-century Christianity.

A variety of psychological traditions and methodological approaches formed a body of human error research in different parts of Europe.

This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry - and historians and poets - in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day.

This book examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after crisis, specifically poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina.

The imminent American historian and author of A History of Kentucky shares his life story, spanning the twentieth century.

Where performance meets the past: exploring how we stage, shape, and experience history.

This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about, and why they were so popular.

Different from literary works (prose, drama etc.

This book reframes commemoration through distinctly geographical lenses, locating it within experiential and digital worlds.

This book redefines the relationship between Marxism and history.

Grometstein explains modern physics with enthusiasm, wit and insight.

I can warmly recommend Responsible History to any concerned historian in need of a reliable compass for responsible conduct.

Germany and Japan have taken different ways of dealing with the past of the traumatic events of World War II and their own role.

This book takes a fresh look at the connection between history and policy, proposing that historians rediscover a sense of 'public purpose' that can embrace political decision-making - and also enhance historical practice.

David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that 'the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind'.

This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism.

This book offers a new theoretical perspective on the thought of the great fifteenth-century Egyptian polymath, Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d.

The history of sociology overwhelmingly focuses on 'the winners' from the classical 'canon' - Marx, Durkheim, and Weber - to today's most celebrated sociologists.

Beginning with a reassessment of contemporary romantic studies, this book provides a modern critical comparison of Keats and Shelley.

This volume clearly communicates that Weber's influence is of great significance to the history of social science, and to appreciating the theoretical work of other social scientists in the modern age.

This study explores the connection between politics and historical scholarship in the case of the Hungarian historian, Gyula Szekfu, whose career spanned one of the most significant and eventful periods of Hungarian history.

Psychoanalysis really should not exist today.

A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.

This volume presents an overview of methodologies to identify and study foodways in the archaeological record.

Obwohl die Zeitgeschichtsschreibung in der Bundesrepublik inzwischen die Schwelle zu den 1970er Jahren überwinden konnte, ist die Selbstthematisierung der Fachgeschichte bislang kaum über das Jahr 1965 hinausgelangt.

This book presents eight papers about important historiographical issues as debated in the history of science in Islamicate societies, the history of science and philosophy of medieval Latin Europe and the history of mathematics as an academic discipline.

Im Wintersemester 1824/25 hat Hegel sein zweites Kolleg über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte gelesen.

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi offers a corrective to recent works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scholarship to the making of Oriental studies.

The later Roman Empire was shrinking on the map, but still shaped the way historians represented the space around them.

The compiled essays offer various themes and ways of approaching historiography.

Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c.