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Book Women  Family  and Society in Medieval Europe

Download or read book Women Family and Society in Medieval Europe written by David Herlihy and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until his untimely death in 1991, David Herlihy, Professor of History at Brown University, was one of the most prolific and best-known American historians of the European Middle Ages. Author of books on the history of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy, Herlihy published, in 1978, his best-known work in collaboration with Christine Klapisch-Zuber, Les Toscans et leurs familles (Translated into English in 1985, and Italian in 1988). For the last dozen or so years of his life, Herlihy launched a series of ambitious projects, on the history ofwomen and the family, and on the collective behavior of social groups in medieval Europe. While he completed two important books - on the family (1985) and on women's work (1991) - he did not find the time to bring these other major projects to a conclusion. This volume contains essays he wrote after 1978. They convey a sense of the enormous intellectual energy and great erudition that characterized David Herlihy's scholarly career. They also chart a remarkable historian's intellectual trajectory, as he searched for new and better ways of asking a set of simple and basic questions about the history of the family, the institution within which the vast majority of Europeans spent so much of their lives. Because of his qualities as a scholar and a teacher, during his relatively brief career Herlihy was honored with Presidencies of the four major scholarly associations with which he was affiliated: the Catholic Historical Association, the Medieval Academy of America, the Renaissance Society of America,and the American Historical Association.

Book Estates and Revolutions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helmut Georg Koenigsberger
  • Publisher : Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Estates and Revolutions written by Helmut Georg Koenigsberger and published by Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays in European History  1988 1989

Download or read book Essays in European History 1988 1989 written by June K. Burton and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Usable Past

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  • Author : William J. Bouwsma
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1990-06-27
  • ISBN : 9780520910140
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book A Usable Past written by William J. Bouwsma and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-06-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, touching on such topics as political thought and historiography, metaphysical and practical conceptions of order, the relevance of Renaissance humanism to Protestant thought, the secularization of European culture, the contributions of particular professional groups to European civilization, and the teaching of history. The essays in A Usable Past are unified by a set of common concerns. William Bouwsma has always resisted the pretensions to science that have shaped much recent historical scholarship and made the work of historians increasingly specialized and inaccessible to lay readers. Following Friedrich Nietzsche, he argues that since history is a kind of public utility, historical research should contribute to the self-understanding of society.

Book Essays in European History 1453   1648

Download or read book Essays in European History 1453 1648 written by David M. Loades and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vanished Supremacies

Download or read book Vanished Supremacies written by Lewis Bernstein Namier and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays in European History  1453 1648

Download or read book Essays in European History 1453 1648 written by D. M. Loades and published by Davenant Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Essays in European History

    Book Details:
  • Author : June K. Burton
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780761803171
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Essays in European History written by June K. Burton and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays explore various topics in European history ranging from a study of the medieval Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds to an essay on the issue of the restoration of the Kaiser prior to Hitler's assumption of power. Enno Kraeh contributes a personal narrative of philosophical journey through the study of history. Three of the essays address literary and cultural themes dealing with German theatre politics, belle epoque opera, and Polish drama. The volume has strong representation on Austrian history, including essays on diplomacy, the Anschluss, and Austrian anti-Semitism.

Book Rethinking World History

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  • Author : Marshall G. S. Hodgson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1993-05-28
  • ISBN : 9780521438445
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Rethinking World History written by Marshall G. S. Hodgson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the place of Europe in world history. He argues that the line that connects Ancient Greeks to the Renaissance to modern times is an optical illusion, and that a global and Asia-centred history can better locate the European experience in the shared histories of humanity. Hodgson then shifts the historical focus and in a parallel move seeks to locate the history of Islamic civilisation in a world historical framework. In so doing he concludes that there is but one history - global history - and that all partial or privileged accounts must necessarily be resituated in a world historical context. The book also includes an introduction by the editor, Edmund Burke, contextualising Hodgson's work in world history and Islamic history.

Book Enlightenment  Passion  Modernity

Download or read book Enlightenment Passion Modernity written by Mark S. Micale and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enriched by the methods and insights of social history, the history of mentalites, linguistics, anthropology, literary theory, and art history, intellectual and cultural history are experiencing a renewed vitality. The far-ranging essays in this volume, by an internationally distinguished group of scholars, represent a generous sampling of these new studies."

Book European History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicholas C. J. Pappas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9789606672101
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book European History written by Nicholas C. J. Pappas and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Systems  Stability  and Statecraft

Download or read book Systems Stability and Statecraft written by P. Schroeder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few scholars have provided as much insight into the struggle of leaders, ideas, and policies as Paul W. Schroeder. Constantly challenging conventional views, and drawing upon a masterly command of the sources and literature, Schroeder provides new answers to old questions about international history and politics since the age of Napoleon. Were European international relations really driven by balance of power politics, or has that traditional view blinded us to an underlying normative consensus on the 'rules of the game' that frequently contributed to cooperation among the leading states in the system? Are alliances primarily a means of the aggregation of power against stronger states, or do states often use alliances as instruments of influence or control over their allies? Was World War I contingent upon a confluence of independent processes that intersected in 1914, or was it the product of more deeply-rooted and interconnected structural forces that pushed inevitably toward war? What is the role of moral judgment in historical investigation? Raising new questions and offering provocative new interpretations, Schroeder encourages historians and political scientists alike to reconsider their long-standing beliefs about the evolution and dynamics of modern diplomacy.

Book Essays in European History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carolyn W. White
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780761803157
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Essays in European History written by Carolyn W. White and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume continues a series of essays exploring broad topics in European history. Included are studies on twentieth-century topics in German, Italian, and Moroccan history. Britain is represented by essays on the medico-legal theory of rabies and comparative study of the ideas of John Thelwall and Edmund Burke. Roy Willis on France's overseas territories, Orest Ranum on the refinement and elaboration of the printed form in the eighteenth century, James Leith on the historical evolution of a children's board, and two studies on education, all attest to a noteworthy French orientation in this volume.

Book Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe written by Robert Oresko and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-30 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of illustrated essays on sovereignty and political power in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe.

Book Essays in European History

Download or read book Essays in European History written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reformation and Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Reformation and Early Modern Europe written by David M. Whitford and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Authors review the present state of research in the field, new trends, key issues scholars are working with, and fundamental works in their subject area, including the wide range of electronic resources now available to researchers. Reformation and Early Modern Europe: A Guide to Research is a valuable resource for students and scholars of early modern Europe.

Book Economy and Society in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Economy and Society in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Burke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929 two French historians, Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, founded Annales, a historical journal which rapidly became one of the most influential in the world. They believed that economic history, social history and the history of ideas were as important as political history, and that historians should not be narrow specialists but should learn from their colleagues in the social sciences. Two of the most distinguished French members of the Annales school are represented in this volume - Fernand Braudel and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie - the core of which is the debate on the Price Revolution of the sixteenth century dealt with by Cipolla, Chabert, Hoszowski and Verlinden. Within the volume, all the contributions are oriented towards Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and all are concerned with long-term changes, and with the relation between economic growth and social change. It includes articles on the European movement of expansion discussed by Malowist and the activities of the Hungarian nobles as entrepreneurs discussed by Pach, and two articles on wider issues: Le Roy Ladurie on the history of climate, and Braudel, summing up the Annales programme, on the relation between history and the social sciences. This classic text was first published in 1972.