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Using Concepts in Medieval History

Author : Jackson W. Armstrong,Peter Crooks,Andrea Ruddick
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030772802

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Using Concepts in Medieval History by Jackson W. Armstrong,Peter Crooks,Andrea Ruddick Pdf

This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured in an effort to bring order to the infinite complexity of the past have a bad habit of taking on a life of their own and inordinately influencing historical interpretation. The most famous example is ‘feudalism’, whose fate as a concept is reviewed here by E.A.R. Brown nearly fifty years after her seminal article on the topic. The volume’s contributors offer a series of case studies of other concepts – 'colony', 'crisis', 'frontier', 'identity', 'magic', 'networks' and 'politics' – that have been influential, particularly among historians of Britain and Ireland in the later Middle Ages. The book explores the creative friction between historical ideas and analytical categories, and the potential for fresh and meaningful understandings to emerge from their dialogue.

Medieval Concepts of the Past

Author : Gerd Althoff,Johannes Fried,Patrick J. Geary,German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521780667

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Medieval Concepts of the Past by Gerd Althoff,Johannes Fried,Patrick J. Geary,German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.) Pdf

An analysis of medieval ritual, history, and memory in Germany and the United States.

Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices

Author : David Abulafia,Nora Berend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351918589

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Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices by David Abulafia,Nora Berend Pdf

In recent years, the 'medieval frontier' has been the subject of extensive research. But the term has been understood in many different ways: political boundaries; fuzzy lines across which trade, religions and ideas cross; attitudes to other peoples and their customs. This book draws attention to the differences between the medieval and modern understanding of frontiers, questioning the traditional use of the concepts of 'frontier' and 'frontier society'. It contributes to the understanding of physical boundaries as well as metaphorical and ideological frontiers, thus providing a background to present-day issues of political and cultural delimitation. In a major introduction, David Abulafia analyses these various ambiguous meanings of the term 'frontier', in political, cultural and religious settings. The articles that follow span Europe from the Baltic to Iberia, from the Canary Islands to central Europe, Byzantium and the Crusader states. The authors ask what was perceived as a frontier during the Middle Ages? What was not seen as a frontier, despite the usage in modern scholarship? The articles focus on a number of themes to elucidate these two main questions. One is medieval ideology. This includes the analysis of medieval formulations of what frontiers should be and how rulers had a duty to defend and/or extend the frontiers; how frontiers were defined (often in a different way in rhetorical-ideological formulations than in practice); and how in certain areas frontier ideologies were created. The other main topic is the emergence of frontiers, how medieval people created frontiers to delimit areas, how they understood and described frontiers. The third theme is that of encounters, and a questioning of medieval attitudes to such encounters. To what extent did medieval observers see a frontier between themselves and other groups, and how does real interaction compare with ideological or narrative formulations of such interaction?

GSSCORE Concept Mapping Workbook History Vol-1 Ancient & Medieval History And Art & Culture

Author : Manoj K. Jha
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9789355216748

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GSSCORE Concept Mapping Workbook History Vol-1 Ancient & Medieval History And Art & Culture by Manoj K. Jha Pdf

—Public Service Examinations across the Board in India offers immense opportunity for young talent to secure not only employment at prestigious positions but also gives them the chance to serve the nation in various capacities. —These examinations are of a highly diverse nature as they test the candidates on diverse subjects, further spanning multiple dimensions largely the subjects related to Polity, Economy, History, Geography, Science and Technology, environmental sciences and miscellaneous topics like sports, awards and other events of national and international importance. —All of this demand not only to study of these varied subjects but also practice in tackling the questions which are asked in the examination. Highlights of the Book Approach towards the subject — The book introduces you to the subject and the way in which this subject should be approached in order to score maximum. Micro Detailing of the Syllabus— The entire UPSC CSE syllabus has been clubbed into broad themes and each theme will be covered with the help of MCQs. Chronological Arrangement of Theme Based Questions— The various identified themes are arranged chronologically so that the entire Syllabus of a subject is roped in a logical line. Last Minute Concept Revision— The end of the book contains the summary of important concepts related to the subject which can be used as your effective revision notes. About GS SCORE— GS SCORE has been home to numerous toppers of UPSC's prestigious Civil Services Examination. Learning at GS SCORE is driven by two predominant objectives i.e. excellence and empowerment.

Medieval Intersections

Author : Katherine Weikert,Elena Woodacre
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800731561

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Medieval Intersections by Katherine Weikert,Elena Woodacre Pdf

Status and gender are two closely associated concepts within medieval society, which tended to view both notions as binary: elite or low status, married or single, holy or cursed, male or female, or as complementary and cohesive as multiple parts of a societal whole. With contributions on topics ranging from medieval leprosy to boyhood behaviors, this interdisciplinary collection highlights the various ways “status” can be interpreted relative to gender, and what these two interlocked concepts can reveal about the construction of gendered identities in the Middle Ages.

Law and Legal Consciousness in Medieval Scotland

Author : Hector L. MacQueen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004683761

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Law and Legal Consciousness in Medieval Scotland by Hector L. MacQueen Pdf

This book explores the rise of a Scottish common law from the twelfth century on despite the absence until around 1500 of a secular legal profession. Key stimuli were the activity of church courts and canon lawyers in Scotland, coupled with the example provided by neighbouring England’s common law. The laity’s legal consciousness arose from exposure to law by way of constant participation in legal processes in court and daily transactions. This experience enabled some to become judges, pleaders in court and transactional lawyers and lay the foundations for an emergent professional group by the end of the medieval period.

What is Medieval History?

Author : John Arnold
Publisher : Polity
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745639321

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What is Medieval History? by John Arnold Pdf

What is it that medieval historians do? And how and why do they do it? What is Medieval History? provides an accessible, far-ranging and passionate guide to the study of medieval history. The book discusses the creation of the academic field, the nature of the sources, the intellectual tools used by medievalists, and some key areas of thematic importance from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Reformation. Students, teachers, researchers and interested general readers will find the book an invaluable guide. The author explores his field through numerous fascinating case studies, including a magical plot against a medieval pope, a fourteenth-century insurrection, and the importance of a kiss exchanged between two tenth-century noblemen. Throughout the book, readers are shown not only what medieval history is, but the cultural and political contexts in which medieval history has been written. And, above all, What is Medieval History? demonstrates why the pursuit of medieval history continues to be important to the present and future world.

Writing Medieval History

Author : Nancy F. Partner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0340808462

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This book surveys non-traditional subjects and approaches that have become part of the mainstream discipline of medieval history. Within each section are essays on subjects such as the social self, use of psychoanalysis, and sex and gender in medieval life. This text clearly articulates key concepts, defines critical vocabulary and demonstrates how postmodern theories, which have influenced all areas of the humanistic disciplines in recent years, are applied to the study of medieval history in practice, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about the meaning of historical evidence and our ability to read and interpret it. The book is organized around three major themes: the self or recognizing people in premodern society; literary techniques for reading historical texts; and historicizing sexuality and gender.

The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England

Author : Abigail Wheatley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781903153611

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The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England by Abigail Wheatley Pdf

A new way of looking at the medieval castle - as a cultural reflection of the society that produced it, seen through art and literature.

Life in Medieval Times

Author : Judith Kidd,Rosemary Rees,Ruth Tudor
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0435325949

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Life in Medieval Times by Judith Kidd,Rosemary Rees,Ruth Tudor Pdf

The Heinemann History Scheme offers an opportunity to refresh the approach to teaching at Key Stage 3. It uses sources and activities to explain complex issues and helps students think through historical concepts for themselves. The Scheme is an exact match to the QCA scheme of work.

Kings' Sagas and Norwegian History

Author : Shami Ghosh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004209893

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Kings' Sagas and Norwegian History by Shami Ghosh Pdf

Surveying the past two decades of scholarship on the medieval historiography of Norway, this book provides a critical appraisal of the principal issues involved in the study of the primary sources and the key areas of scholarship and future research.

The History of Political and Social Concepts

Author : Melvin Richter
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9780195088267

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The History of Political and Social Concepts by Melvin Richter Pdf

Since the 1960s, German scholars have developed distinctive methods for writing the history of political, social, and philosophical concepts. This work is a critical introduction to this emerging genre: the history of political and social concepts, or Begriffsgeschichte. Systematically surveying political, social, and philosophical discourses and their contexts, historians of concepts track linguistically how the advent, mentalities, and effects of modernity have been conceptualized in contested forms. After assessing the programs and achievements of this genre, and analyzing extended examples of its use, the author argues the need for an analogous project to chart the careers of concepts central to the political and social vocabularies of English-speaking societies.

ENGLISH LITERATURE ADVANCING THROUGH HISTORY 1 - Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and Medieval Periods

Author : Petru Golban
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781912997947

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ENGLISH LITERATURE ADVANCING THROUGH HISTORY 1 - Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and Medieval Periods by Petru Golban Pdf

It appears that literary work possesses eternal temporal validity due to its autonomous aesthetic value, whereas criticism provides points of view having temporary and transitory significance. Despite such claims, the vector of methodology in our series of books, dealing with the history of English literature, relies on Viktor Shklovsky, T. S. Eliot, Mikhail Bakhtin, and especially Yuri Tynyanov, whose main reasoning would be that literature is a system of dominant, central and peripheral, marginalized elements – to us, “tradition” (centre) versus “innovation” (margin) engaged in a “battle” for supremacy, demarginalization, and the right to form a new literary system – and the development or historical advancement of literature is the substitution of systems. Roman Jakobson and French structuralism, on the whole, later Linda Hutcheon, with her “system” and “constant”, and Bran Nicol with the “dominant”, to say nothing about Itamar Even-Zohar and his theory of polysystem, to a certain extent Julia Kristeva, and even Homi Bhabha – as well as our humble contribution, by means of the books in the present series, we would like to believe – maintain Tynyanov’s line of thinking and concepts alive, which have developed and emerged nowadays more like a kind of “neo-formalism”.

Emperor’s New Clothes?

Author : Julia McClure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Globalization
ISBN : OCLC:1088480129

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Emperor’s New Clothes? by Julia McClure Pdf

This paper aims to give a face to the ‘globalization paradigm’ at work in some global histories and to recognize similarities between this meta-narrative coordination of space and time, and older meta-narratives of the world. Narrating the space and time of the world in order to understand and represent its coherent meaning is not a new phenomenon. This paper looks to medieval history to show that despite claims that the history of globalization is unique to modernity, the meta-narrative is familiar to narrations of the space and time of the world produced in the Middle Ages, before the supposed advent of globalization. The aim is to challenge the assumption that the globalization paradigm is a modern phenomenon, since this assumption conceals links to old historiographies and epistemologies. It suggests that medieval history can offer a critical reflection on existing global histories as well as opening up new directions for the future of the field. In addition to questioning the ‘modernity’ of the globalization paradigm medieval history acts as a reminder of the historically constructed nature of global concepts and the need to think about the ‘globe’ as a diversely narrated and constructed subject rather than a singular-empirical object. The paper looks to the European Middle Ages to reflect on the politics of conceptualisations and historicisations of the ‘globe’, and to show that pluralities are not only produced beyond Europe but within it, and this is a tactical-historiographical move to break away from the contours of pre-existing critiques from the fields of postcolonial and Latin American studies.

Minority Influences in Medieval Society

Author : Nora Berend
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000370195

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Minority Influences in Medieval Society by Nora Berend Pdf

This book investigates how minorities contributed to medieval society, comparing these contributions to majority society’s perceptions of the minority. In this volume the contributors define ‘minority’ status as based on a group’s relative position in power relations, that is, a group with less power than the dominant group(s). The chapters cover both what modern historians call ‘religious’ and ‘ethnic’ minorities (including, for example, Muslims in Latin Europe, German-speakers in Central Europe, Dutch in England, Jews and Christians in Egypt), but also address contemporary medieval definitions; medieval writers distinguished between ‘believers’ and ‘infidels’, between groups speaking different languages and between those with different legal statuses. The contributors reflect on patterns of influence in terms of what majority societies borrowed from minorities, the ways in which minorities contributed to society, the mechanisms in majority society that triggered positive or negative perceptions, and the function of such perceptions in the dynamics of power. The book highlights structural and situational similarities as well as historical contingency in the shaping of minority influence and majority perceptions. The chapters in this book were originally published as special issue of the Journal of Medieval History.