Historiography

The Repentant Abelard is both an innovative study and English translation of the late poetic works of controversial medieval philosopher and logician Peter Abelard, written for his beloved wife Heloise and son Astralabe.

This study is based on research which I conducted in the Netherlands in 1948 and 1949.

Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persistence opened up attributes of potent female imagination, radical endeavour, literary vigour, and self-education that compares well with male intellectual achievement in the long eighteenth century.

Vietnam precipitated a crisis in national self-confidence and a breakdown in political consensus out of which new ideological perspectives emerged.

The foundation of a stable democracy in Spain was built on a settled account: an agreement that both sides were equally guilty of violence, a consensus to avoid contention, and a pact of oblivion as the pathway to peace and democracy.

No biblical historian is included in the standard dictionaries of historians.

Anhand von Kant, Schelling und Hegel wird hier noch einmal die Konstruktion des Sinns in der unbewussten Produktion der Geschichte aufgedeckt.

Originally published in German, Italian and French these articles have been translated into English for the first time by the author, the former archivist of The Warburg Institute, London.

To date there has been no plotting of punk scholarship which speaks to 'time', yet there are some clear bodies of work pertaining to particular issues relevant to it, including ageing and/or the life course and punk, memory and/or nostalgia and punk, 'punk history', and archiving and punk.

This book, first published in 1967, begins with a description of Pestalozzi's life in which the factors which influenced his development are outlined and the history of his educational institutes described.

The 'celebrated' Catharine Macaulay was both lauded and execrated during the eighteenth century for her republican politics and her unconventional, second marriage.

This 2005 book is a fully comparative history of the writing of the history of the Great War.

As one of the premier historical thinkers of his generation, Jorn Rusen has made enormous contributions to the methods and theoretical framework of history as it is practiced today.

This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman.

This volume examines the ways that writers from the Caribbean, Africa, and the U.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

In March of 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Seviet Union.

In the early twelfth century a Burgundian monk set out to tell the 500-year history of his monastery, embedded within a broader history of early medieval France.

This book examines the legacy of a British child migration scheme that relocated British children to Southern Rhodesia between 1946 and 1962, with the aim of populating the colony with "e;fresh white stock"e;.

Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective on the Italian-English cultural dialogue at the Renaissance and its contribution to intellectual history.

Rosa Luxemburg war eine der bedeutendsten Intellektuellen des "e;langen"e; 19.

Auf unterhaltsame Weise liefert dieses Buch historisch belegte Fakten zu ungewöhnlichen Maßnahmen aus der langen Leidensgeschichte der Steuern, die Schlaglichter auch auf heutige Absurditäten der Steuergesetzgebung werfen.

From 1966 to 1970, historian Martin Duberman transformed his undergraduate Princeton seminar on American radicalism.

In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies and is now employed as a research tool by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, medical therapists, documentary film makers, and educators at all levels.

The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedomThe era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

This book explores the idea that there is a certain performativity of thought connecting Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Place names are a window into the history and characteristics of a country.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Schulen" verfügbar.

This book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community.

This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory.

This book examines Aquinas's aesthetic thought and view of art within the broader context of medieval aesthetics and the history of aesthetic development, emphasizing its profound influence on later aesthetics.

This book covers a wide range of topics related to honor and shame in European historical societies: history of law and literature, social and ancient history, as well as theoretical contributions on the state of research and the importance of honor and shame in traditional societies.

Competitive gaming, or esports - referring to competitive tournaments of video games among both casual gamers and professional players - began in the early 1970s with small competitions like the one held at Stanford University in October 1972, where some 20 researchers and students attended.

Crime does not pay, and politics by assassination pays even less.

This book explores how modern Egyptians understand the Mamluks and reveals the ways in which that historical memory is utilized for political and ideological purposes.

Few modern events have aroused more controversy than the Spanish Civil War.

Utilising non-representational theories and practice-led research methods, this book serves to reclaim therapeutics as ecological, spatial and material.

Starting with an essay on the Renaissance as the concluding phase of the Middle Ages and ending with appreciations of Paul Oskar Kristeller, the great twentieth-century scholar of the Renaissance, this new volume by John Monfasani brings together seventeen articles that focus both on individuals, such as Erasmus of Rotterdam, Angelo Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino, and NiccolA2 Perotti, and on large-scale movements, such as the spread of Italian humanism, Ciceronianism, Biblical criticism, and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy.

A third edition of this classic introduction to archaeological theory and method.

Taking a fresh and imaginative approach to the topic, Enlightenment Reformation investigates how and why Hutchinsonianism came into being, evolved and eventually ended.

This book traces the development of investigative cinema, whose main characteristic lies in reconstructing actual events, political crises, and conspiracies.

Starting at the dawn of science, History of Industrial Gases traces the development of gas theory from its Aristotelian roots to its modern achievements as a global industry.

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