History: theory and methods

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity.

What does it mean - and what might it yet come to mean - to write 'history' in the twenty-first century?

Set against the backdrop of a rapidly fissuring disciplinary landscape where poetry and science are increasingly viewed as irreconcilable and unrelated, Bernhard Kuhn's study uncovers a previously ignored, fundamental connection between autobiography and the natural sciences.

Anna Maria van Schurman was in more than one aspect an unconventional woman in her own lifetime.

This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history.

The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past.

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Throughout history many nations have had to make hard choices between a land and a maritime strategy.

Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet's legacy of human rights atrocities.

The notion of 'history' has always been one strenuously debated by both academics and the wider population.

What is it that oral historians do?

Averil Cameron is one of the leading historians of late antiquity and Byzantium.

This volume deals with the psychological, metaphysical and scientific ideas of two major and influential Aristotelian philosophers of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia (d.

From typefounding through typesetting to the printing process itself, this narrative offers a fresh look at the unprecedented success story of the spread of the 'black art' right across Europe in a mere 40 years.

100 Jahre nach dem November 1918 spricht man nur noch vom "Kriegsende", vom "Zusammenbruch des Kaiserreichs".

In dem vorliegenden 18.

Dieses Heft widmet sich dem Verhältnis von Zeit und Region.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of social policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1949-1990), followed by an analysis of the "e;Social Union"e;, the transformation of social policy in the process of German unification in 1990.

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

This book tells the story of how madness came to play a prominent part in America's political and cultural debates.

This book offers case studies of the past embedded in the past as a window into the ancient historians'' workshop.

Poetics of the Iconotext makes available for the first time in English the theories of the respected French text/image specialist, Professor Liliane Louvel.

A fresh look at the impact of Quentin Skinner''s The Foundations of Modern Political Thought.

This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century.

This book deals with important aspects of nineteenth-century culture, literary, philosophical and scientific, which remain live issues today.

Empathy and History offers a comprehensive and dual account of empathy s intellectual and educational history.

The post-apartheid era in South Africa has, in the space of nearly two decades, experienced a massive memory boom, manifest in a plethora of new memorials and museums and in the renaming of streets, buildings, cities and more across the country.

This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history.

The latter half of the seventeenth century saw the Puritan families of England struggle to preserve the old values in an era of tremendous political and religious upheaval.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the renewal of academic engagement in the Argentinian dictatorship in the context of the post-2001 crisis.

Some justification seems to be necessary for the addition of yet another History of Iranian Literature to the number of those already in existence.

Originally published in 1967 Medieval Minds looks at the Middle Ages as a period with changing attitudes towards mental health and its treatment.

Angela Zusman offers an informative guidebook with step-by-step directions for planning and implementing intergenerational oral history projects, using youth to interview elders.

Blinde Zufälle bestimmen die Geschichte weit mehr, als wir Menschen meinen.

In January 1998 leading scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel in the fields of medieval encyclopedias (Arabic, Latin and Hebrew) and medieval Jewish philosophy and science gathered together at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, for an international conference on medieval Hebrew encyclopedias of science and philosophy.

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

Climate can be defined as an ensemble of many weather phenomena.

The third volume in this ground-breaking series, Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres, introduces masterpieces of Persian literature from these seven centuries to an international audience.

9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have left many people baffled and concerned.

Die vorliegende empirische Studie untersucht den Themenbereich Nationalsozialismus, Holocaust und Erinnerungskultur in Österreich aus geschichtsdidaktischer Perspektive.