Historiography

Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, at which Bernini was the principal artist.

This title was first published in 2001.

Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland.

This book explores national attitudes to remembering colonialism in Britain and France.

This volume deals with the development of moral and political philosophy in the medieval West.

One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe.

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This collection of essays by Indonesian and foreign contributors offers new and highly original analyses of the mass violence in Indonesia which began in 1965 and its aftermath.

This book looks at the uses of popular music in the newly-redefined category of the nostalgia game, exploring the relationship between video games, popular music, nostalgia, and socio-cultural contexts.

"The dream space," writes Sheldon Annis, "is the reflective experience of encountering yourself within a museum.

Leach struggled to rid his countrymen of the persistent myth that the monks had been the schoolmasters of the pre-Reformation period in England.

My first serious thought about a scientific approach to politics was in Communist China.

This book proposes a new Ethics of Political Commemoration adapted from the Just War tradition, reflecting that remembrance is often conducted with political - and even coercive - intent.

Charles Trinkaus can be counted among the eminent intellectual and cultural historians of the Renaissance.

This 14th volume in the 24-volume book series sets out to explore the interrelationship between ideology, the state, and education reforms, placing it in a global context.

The Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835 - 1909) is the single-most important figure in the founding of criminology and the study of aberrant conduct in the human sciences.

With his groundbreaking Europe and the People Without History, Eric R.

This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity?

The Idea of Anglo Saxon England, 1066-1901 presents the first systematic review of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon studies have evolved from their beginnings to the twentieth century Tells the story of how the idea of Anglo-Saxon England evolved from the Anglo-Saxons themselves to the Victorians, serving as a myth of origins for the English people, their language, and some of their most cherished institutions Combines original research with established scholarship to reveal how current conceptions of English identity might be very different if it were not for the discovery and invention of the Anglo-Saxon past Reveals how documents dating from the Anglo-Saxon era have greatly influenced modern attitudes toward nationhood, race, religious practice, and constitutional liberties Includes more than fifty images of manuscripts, early printed books, paintings, sculptures, and major historians of the era

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2 Peter of Aillyl wrote his Concepts and Insolubles, according to the best 3 estimate, in 1372.

Through violent incursions by the Vikings and the spread of Christianity, medieval Ireland maintained a distinctive Gaelic identity.

Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians of medicine, literature, psychiatry and religion.

Volume 4 of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally from 1800 to 1945.

In an era defined by daily polls, institutional rankings, and other forms of social quantification, it can be easy to forget that comparison has a long historical lineage.

This book follows the public life of Michael Palaiologos from his early days and upbringing, through to his assumption of the Byzantine imperial throne in 1258.

In this collection we finally find the philosophy of technology, a young and rapidly developing area of scholarly interest, making contact with history of science and technology, and mainstream epistemological and metaphysical issues.

The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one.

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These private journals, made available here for the first time, record Hugh Trevor-Roper's visit to the People's Republic of China in the autumn of 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, and describe the controversial aftermath of his journey on his return to England.

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

It has long been known that the origins of the early modern dynasties of the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, Mongols, and Shibanids in the sixteenth century go back to "e;Turco-Mongol"e; or "e;Turcophone"e; war bands.

Historical research into female entrepreneurs has become a burgeoning field in recent years.

This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.

The number of books and articles dealing with various aspects of World War II has increased at a phenomenal rate since the end of the hostilities.

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Starting from the central importance of memory in contemporary societies, this book encourages a transdisciplinary reflection on how the "e;presentification of the past"e; is never a simple reenactment but corresponds to the interaction between memory and cultural sensitiveness, present beliefs and needs, expectations, and forecasts for the future.

Fascism exerted a crucial ideological and political influence across Europe and beyond.

The present volume owes its existence to a proposal of Dr Esa Saarinen.

Amy S.

Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes beschreiben die Besonderheiten und die Gemeinsamkeiten der Fachdidaktiken für das gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Aufgabenfeld (Geographie, Geschichte, Politik, Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik).

This volume examines the processes and patterns of Araucanian cultural development and resistance to foreign influences and control through the combined study of historical and ethnographic records complemented by archaeological investigation in south-central Chile.