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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Discourses of Memory and Refugees: Exploring
Book SynopsisThis book explores the discourse by and about refugees and asylum seekers in relation to memory with a particular focus on the United Kingdom. A series of studies using different analytical approaches is undertaken, and together the studies shed light on this overlooked area of research. The studies or ‘facets’ presented in the monograph cover a range of contexts and discursive genres: a joint BBC/refugee-authored television documentary, refugees’ oral histories, creative life writing by asylum seekers, parliamentarians’ debates, a reworking of canonical texts and sites in a protest campaign, and non-fiction testimonies and fictional works by later generations of refugee background. The monograph introduces ‘facet methodology’ to memory studies, arguing that this approach could encourage interdisciplinary research in the field. Table of Contents1. A Dual Focus.2. Capturing Memories on Camera: Refugees and the BBC.3. Oral Histories: Voices of Kosovo in Manchester.4. 'Women Asylum Seekers Together' Life Writing.5. 'History' and Debating Refugees in Parliament.6. Memory Sites of the 'Refugee Tales' Project.7. Bhabha’s Temporality in Second and Third Generation Refugee/Immigrant Testimonies.8. Memory, Art and the Vietnamese Diaspora.9. Insights.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism
Book SynopsisThis volume is designed to assist university faculty and students studying and teaching about antisemitism, racism, and other forms of prejudice. In contrast with similar volumes, it is organized around specific concepts instead of chronology or geography. It promotes conversation about antisemitism across disciplinary, geographic, and thematic lines rather than privileging a single methodological paradigm, a specific academic field, or an overarching narrative. Its twenty-one chapters by leading scholars in diverse fields address the relationship to antisemitism of concepts ranging from Anti-Judaism to Zionism. Each chapter not only traces the history and major scholarly debates around a key concept; it also presents an original argument, points to avenues for further research, and exemplifies a method of investigation.Trade Review“The Green/ Sullam volume leads us almost naturally to the last collection under review— in fact a small encyclopedia— edited by Sol Goldberg, Scott Ury, and Kalman Weiser. As befits such a volume, the list of contributors to Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism includes not only historians but also philosophers, psychologists, literary scholars, political scientists, jurists, and an anthropologist.” (Shulamit Volkov, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 33, 2023)“Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism is meant to be a resource and a tool for instructors and researchers around the world who face this very dilemma. Its greatest innovation is in its design. Instead of producing a more usual historical survey of antisemitism through the ages, the editors have solicited a rich and diverse collection of short essays from leading scholars in the field about various concepts associated with the study of antisemitism.” (Paul Hanebrink, Shofar - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 40 (3), 2022)“Rigorous and wholly engaging, Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism is the volume I was missing during my postgraduate degree in Jewish studies. … From a student’s perspective too, the work will certainly be a welcome addition to university reading lists … . Key Concepts also makes a compelling intervention in the field. The twenty-one accessible and original chapters encourage curiosity and innovation over rigidity and prescription.” (Emilie Wiedemann, Shofar - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 40 (3), 2022)“The great gain of the volume is that it has brought Antisemitism research out of the epistemic black hole into which the idea of eternal Antisemitism or of the longest hatred has pushed it and threatens to push it again and again. By placing Antisemitic thought and action in their respective contexts, illuminating the constellations in the occurrence of Antisemitism and determining its ambiguities and ruptures, the volume can sharpen the historical judgment of Antisemitism research, make Antisemitism more clearly comprehensible and thus also better combatable.” (Ulrich Wyrwa, Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, Issue 21, October, 2022)“Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism … stands out as such a profound contribution: it sees inquiry as the key to unpacking antisemitism rather than narrow interpretations of potential solutions. … Key Concepts in the Study of Antisemitism is better poised for experts and scholars in the field looking for a field guide to help in study … .” (Shane Burley, Journal of Social Justice, Vol. 10, 2022)“The volume is … directed towards scholars of all disciplines studying antisemitism. This is a strength that makes the anthology an important contribution which promotes cross-disciplinary scholarship. For scholars of both the past and of the present, this work presents insightful historical overviews as well as well-grounded explanations of concepts that yield a solid foundation for further research. … will be used by researchers and students alike to orientate the many concepts that circulate in the study of antisemitism(s).” (Jens Carlesson Magalhães, Nordisk Judaistik, Vol. 33 (1), 2022)“None of its twenty-two contributions runs more than fifteen pages, making each readily digestible. Moreover, there is no redundancy among them. Even someone long engaged in the study of antisemitism could certainly learn from it. … I can also think of numerous times in the past when I wish this book had been available. Admittedly, before opening Key Concepts one may wonder what is left to be said about anti‐ semitism. Quite a lot, it turns out.” (Robert E. Blobaum, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, September, 2021)Table of Contents1. Introduction- Kalman Weiser 2. Anti-Judaism- Jonathan Elukin3. Anti-Semitism (Historiography)- Jonathan Judaken4. Anti-Zionism- James Loeffler 5. Blood Libel- Hillel J. Kieval6. The Catholic Church- Magda Teter7. Conspiracy Theory- Jovan Byford 8. Emancipation- Frederick C. Beiser 9. Gender- Sara R. Horowitz 10. Ghetto- Daniel B. Schwartz 11. The Holocaust- Richard S. Levy12. Jewish Self-hatred- Sol Goldberg 13. Nationalism- Brian Porter-Szűcs14. Nazism- Doris L. Bergen15. Orientalism- Ivan Kalmar16. Philosemitism- Maurice Samuels 17. Pogrom- Jeffrey Kopstein18. Post-colonialism- Bryan Cheyette19. Racism- Robert Bernasconi20. Secularism- Lena Salaymeh & Shai Lavi21. Sinat Yisrael- Martin Lockshin22. Zionism- Scott Ury
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents: Innovative Approaches to Research Across Space and Time
Book SynopsisThis textbook showcases innovative approaches to the interdisciplinary field of childhood and youth studies, examining how young people in a wide range of contemporary and historical contexts around the globe live their young lives as subjects, objects, and agents. The diverse contributions examine how children and youth are simultaneously constructed: as individual subjects through social processes and culturally-specific discourses; as objects of policy intervention and other adult power plays; and also as active agents who act on their world and make meaning even amidst conditions of social, political, and economic marginalization. In addition, the book is centrally engaged with questions about how researchers take into consideration children’s and young people’s own conceptions of themselves and how we conceptualize child and youth potentials for agency at different ages and stages of growing up. Each chapter discusses substantive research but also engages in self-reflection about methodology, positionality, and/or disciplinarity, thus making the volume especially useful for teaching. This book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including childhood studies, youth studies, girls’ studies, development studies, research methods, sociology, anthropology, education, history, geography, public policy, cultural studies, gender and women’s studies and global studies. Table of Contents1. Children and Youth as Subjects, Objects, Agents: An Introduction; Deborah Levison, Mary Jo Maynes, and Frances Vavrus.- Section 1: Construction of Children and Youth as Subjects.- 2. "So How's Your Childhood Going?": A Historian of Childhood Confronts Her Own Archive; Elena Jackson Albarrán.- 3. Encountering Emotions in the Archive of Childhood and Youth; Emily C. Bruce.- 4. Visualizing the Space of Childhood and Youth.- 5. Turning Off the Recorder: Caring Relationships in Research with Youth; Judith Josephat Merinyo and Laura Wangsness Willemsen.- 6. Productive Tensions in Interdisciplinary and Mixed-methods Research on Youths' Livelihoods; Joan DeJaeghere.- Section 2: Critiquing Objectification of Children and Youth.- 7. The Daughters of Bengal: A History of the Girl Victim under ‘Western Eyes’; Samia Khatun.- 8. Search for the Child in Colonial Uganda's Educational Archives; Elisabeth E. Lefebvre. 9. Black Sites of Speculation: A Case for Theorizing Black Childhood as a Subject in Black Adult Narratives; Tammy C. Owens.- 10. Archives, Adoption Records, and Owning Historical Memory; Kelly Condit-Shrestha.- 11. Global Girl Policy and the Girl Effect: Gendered Origins and Silences; Karen Brown.- Section 3: Recognizing Children and Youth as Agents.- 12. Is It Okay to Critique Youth Activists?: Notes on the Power and Danger of Complexity; Jessica K. Taft.- 13. Re/writing Gendered Scripts: A Longitudinal Research Partnership Reshaping Gender and Education Policy and Praxis in Zanzibar, Tanzania; Emily Markovich Morris.- 14. Generational Power in Research with Children: Reflections on Risk and ‘Voice’; Anna Bolgrien, Deborah Levison, and Frances Vavrus.- 15. Youth Circulations: Tracing the Real and Imagined Circulations of Global Youth; Lauren Heidbrink and Michele Statz.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imagining the Past, Constructing the Future
Book SynopsisThis book takes a sociocultural, developmental and dialogical perspective to explore the constructive and interconnected nature of remembering and imagining. Conceived as cognitive-affective processes, both emerge at the border of the person and his or her socio-cultural world. Memory is approached as a functional adaption to the environment using the resources of the past in preparation for action in the present. Imagination is tightly related to memory in that both aim to escape the confines of the concrete here-and-now situation; however, while memory is primarily oriented to the past, imagination looks to the future. Both are embedded in the exchanges with the social and cultural milieu, and thus theorizing them has relied on key ideas from Lev Vygotsky, Frederic Bartlett and Mikhail Bakhtin. Thus, this book aims to integrate theories of remembering and imagining, through rich empirical studies in diverse cultural settings and concerning the development of self and identity. These two groups of studies compose the subparts that organize the book. Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Introduction - Memory and imagination as meaning-making processes: A hint for a continuous dialogue Maria C.D.P. Lyra – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Brady Wagoner - Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Alicia Barreiro - Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, National Scientific and Technical Research Council and University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Subpart 1: Imagination and remembering in cultural settings Chapter 1. 2: The dynamics between remembering and imagining in school transitions: A study on fictional narratives Graciana Azevedo – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Maria Claudia Oliveira – Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brazil Giuseppina Marsico – Salerno University, Italy /Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Chapter 1. 3: Imagining and remembering in an educational context: An exploratory study Karina Moutinho – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Taciana Feitosa – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Candy E. Marques-Laurendon – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Chapter 1. 4.: The microgenetic analysis of remembering and imagining in the process of learning scientific concepts João T. R. Silva – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE),campus Caruaru, Brazil Maria C.D.P. Lyra – Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Brady Wagoner - Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Chapter 1. 5.: Remembering and forgetting: A crossroad between personal and collective experience Alicia Barreiro - Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, National Scientific and Technical Research Council and University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Inga Endsleff - Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Chapter 1. 5.: Remembering and forgetting: A crossroad between personal and collective experience Marina A. Pinheiro - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Jandson Ferreira da Silva – Instituto Federal do Ceará, Brazil Luca Tateo - University of Oslo, Norway and Federal University of Bahia, Brazil Subpart 2: Self-development and Identity Construction Chapter 2. 7.: Constructing continuity after ruptures: The role of “anticipatory recognition” in children’s self development Monica Roncancio-Moreno - Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia Elsa de Mattos - Universidade Católica do Salvador, Bahia/Brasil Chapter 2. 8.: Dynamics between past, present and future: the role of constructive imagination in a musician-teacher’s life trajectory Angela Branco – Universidade de Brasília (UnB), Brazil Tatiana Valerio – Instituto Federal de Pernambuco, Campus Belo Jardim, Brazil Chapter 2. 9.: Being in the world; the ACT of making and striking out personal self-constructions Elisa Krause-Kjær - associate researcher at Aalborg University Denmark and psychologist at Educational Psychological Services (EPS), Denmark Chapter 2. 10.: Co-constructing the past and the future in times of uncertainty. Students’ positions during the Brazilian teachers’ strike in 2012 Gabriel Fortes Cavalcanti de Macêdo - Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil Ignacio Brescó de Luna (Aalborg University) – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, España
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Nazi and Holocaust Representations in
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes sensationalized Nazi and Holocaust representations in Anglo-American cultural and political discourses. Recognizing that this history is increasingly removed from contemporary life, it explains how irreverent representations can help rejuvenate the story for successive generations of new learners. Surveying seventy-five-years of transatlantic activities, the work erects counterposing categorizes of “constructive and destructive memorializing,” providing scholars with a new framework for elucidating both this history and its historicization.Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Nuremberg Narrative: Fashioning a Liberalized Anglo-American Holocaust MemorializationChapter 3: The Americanization of the Holocaust: Expressions of Cultural and Political MemorializationChapter 4: Why All the Swastikas?: UK Rock Stars’ Nazi/Holocaust Encounters, 1960s-1980sChapter 5: No Soup For You!: Responsible and Irresponsible Holocaust Humor on American SitcomsChapter 6: Irreverent Instruction: Considering New Approaches in Twenty-First Century European and American Holocaust EducationChapter 7: That is Really Meme: Nazifying Pepe the Frog and the Subversion of Anglo-American Holocaust MemorializationChapter 8: Conclusion
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG European Memory and Conflicting Visions of the
Book SynopsisThis book discusses a number of ways in which the dialogue about Europe’s past and future could be rendered more inclusive, such as the promotion of critical and sentimental education and the creation of virtual and actual social spaces in which citizens and organised identity groups can participate. The discussion about European memory is far from being a “merely” symbolic issue with no political consequences. Imagining Europe and its past in different ways will lead to different real political outcomes. For instance, thinking about European integration as an embodiment of the values of the Enlightenment (such as human rights, liberal democracy, and reason), as a guarantor of peace on the continent, as a guarantor of prosperity, or as a guarantor that massive human rights violations like genocide will “never again” be committed on its soil, all entail different political objectives. Similarly, conflicting understandings of European memory as either a thing or a social construct, as either one memory or a plurality of memories, as either the end point of deliberation or a dialogical process, represent not merely inconsequential cultural “froth on the tides of society,” but crucially important issues with real political consequences. The book is intended to contribute to this discussion about the common European approach to the past (and thus to the future).Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Pluralist Approach to Memory.- chapter 2: The Misleading Metaphor of Memory.- chapter 3: Reflexivist Social Theory of Memory.- chapter 4: Pluralist Ethics of Memory.- Part 2: Pluralist European Mythscape.- chapter 5: Disciplinary Approaches to the Idea of European Memory.- chapter 6: Historical Trajectories of the Idea of European Memory.- chapter 7: European Institutions and the Idea of European Memory.- chapter 8: Conclusion.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG A Global History of the Cold War, 1945-1991
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides a dynamic and concise overview of the Cold War. Offering balanced coverage of the whole era, it takes a firmly global approach, showing how at various times the focus of East-West rivalry shifted to new and surprising venues, from Laos to Katanga, from Nicaragua to Angola. Throughout, Jenkins emphasises intelligence, technology and religion, as well as highlighting themes that are relevant to the present day. A rich array of popular culture examples is used to demonstrate how the crisis was understood and perceived by mainstream audiences across the world, and the book includes three ‘snapshot’ chapters, which offer an overview of the state of play at pivotal moments in the conflict – 1946, 1968 and 1980 – in order to illuminate the inter-relationship between apparently discrete situations. This is an essential introduction for students studying Cold War, twentieth century or Global history.Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart One: Between Wars? 1945-19672. Origins: The World In 19463. The Struggle For Europe4. Nuclear Perils5. Asian Theaters6. Decolonization and Third World Struggles7. Khrushchev and KennedyPart Two: Living in the Cold War8. National Security and Repression9. Spies, Saboteurs, and Defectors10. Cold War CulturesPart Three: The Struggle Redefined: 1968-199111. Crisis of Ideologies: The World in 196812. A Cold Peace, or War by Other Means?13. Four Minutes to Midnight: The World in 198014. The New Struggle15. Endgame16. Conclusion: Winners, Losers, and Inheritors
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Myths and Memories of the Black Death
Book SynopsisThis book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around 1800 onwards. The distant medieval past was often used to make sense of aspects of the present, from the cholera pandemics of the nineteenth-century to the climate crisis of the early twenty-first century. A series of overlapping myths related to the Black Death emerged based only in part on historical evidence. Cultural memory circulates in a variety of media from the scholarly article to the video game and online video clip, and the connections and differences between mediated representations of the Black Death are considered. The Black Death is one of the most well-known aspects of the medieval world, and this study of its associated memories and myths reveals the depth and complexity of interactions between the distant and recent past.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Rediscovering the Black Death3. The Black Death and Englishness4. Plague in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries5. The Black Death and War in the Mid-Twentieth Century6. New Explanatory Frameworks and Black Death Forgetting7. Imagining Victory Over the Black Death8. Denial, Climate Change and New Evidence about the Black Death9. Conclusion
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Palgrave Macmillan Representations of Collective Memory in Georgia Armenia Abkhazia and Nagorno Karabakh
Book SynopsisIntroduction. South Caucasus as a Memory Space.- Chapter I. Structure of the Memory Discourse of Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh.- Chapter II. History and the Present. Sovietization Of Memory and the Post-Soviet Memory.- Chapter III. Dimensions of the Memory of Armenia, Georgia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh.- Chapter IV. Between Institutional Memory and Counter-Memory.
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Palgrave Macmillan Popular Memory and Francos Disappeared in Spain
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Palgrave Macmillan Tourism as MemoryMaking
Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Tourism as memory-making.-3. Travelling across a post-imperial space.- 4. Walking through multi-layered histories.- 5. Remembering a shared homeland.- 6. Encountering other pasts.- 7. Navigating contested pasts.- 8. The (geo)politics of tourism memories.
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Palgrave Macmillan Armenian Greek and Assyrian Genocide Recognition in TwentyFirst Century Australia
Book Synopsis1 Introduction.- 2 The Late Ottoman Genocides: Historical Context, Academic Discourse, and Legacy.- 3 The Tapestry of Trauma: Silence, Hints, and Storytelling in the Greek and Assyrian Experiences.- 4 Transforming Memories: The Intersection of Commemoration, Differences, and Monuments.- 5 Intercommunal Cooperation: Establishing a Shared Experience and Genocide Recognition.- 6 From Humanitarianism to Recognition: Australia and the Politics of Memory.- 7 Conclusion.
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Palgrave Macmillan Collective Memory of Economic Crises and Transformations
Book Synopsis.- Introduction: Collective Memory in the Context of Economic Crises and Transformations.- Part I Cyclical Economic Crises.- Battles of Narratives, Battles of Memory: Making Sense of the Ebbs and Flows of the Memory of the Great Depression.- Collective Famine Memories and the Economies of Catastrophe.- Part II Structural Change of Industrial Societies.- Industrial Heritage as a Consequence of Structural Economic Transformations: Rival Conceptualizations in Comparative Perspective.- Industrial Mnemoscapes of Post-Socialism: Heritage Legacies and Diverging Economic Memories.- Part III Systematic Political Transformations.- To Remember Impossible to Forget: The Memory of Entrepreneurship in the Late 19th – Early 21st Century in Ukraine.- Memories of Empire and Embedded Banking: Austrian Bankers Investing in Central Eastern Europe in the 1990s.- Part IV Economic Internationalization.- Impact of the Memory of Kaikoku (Opening the Country to the World) on the Course of Industrialization in Early Meiji Japan.- Harking Back to the ‘Golden Age’ of National Economies: German Memory Narratives in Times of Economic Internationalization.- Conclusions: Mapping the Economy/Memory Nexus – Themes and Future Agendas.
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Springer VS Plakatives Gedenken
Book SynopsisWenn Kommunismus zur Schau gestellt wird – was tun?.- Grundlegung einer Gedenkanalytik.- Gedenkausstellung als Inszenierung.- Die Dinge bewegen. Zur Dekonstruktion einer multimedialen und multimodalenInszenierung.- Diktatur und Demokratie im Zeitalter der Extreme.- Plakatives Gedenken an den Kommunismus.- Nachwort.- Erhobene Daten.- Literaturverzeichnis.
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The Sound Book Press History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan: The World, the Nation and the Search for a Modern Past
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Brill Early Mamluk Syrian Historiography, Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis laudable work offers a study, translation and partial edition of one of the most important early Mamluk sources and its author. In addition to the work's contribution to Mamluk history, it also makes a significant contribution towards the ultimate goal of having the key texts of early Mamluk historiography accessible to scholars. In this first volume the life and work of al-Yūnīnī (d. 1326), the textual history of his Chronicle, its historiographic significance and textual filiation with other independent sources are presented and discussed.Trade Review'...une étape importante de la recherché sur le début de l'historiographie mamelouke en general et sur al-Yūnīnī en particulier.' Anne-Marie Eddé, Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques, 2001.
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Brill Virtual History and the Bible
Book SynopsisVirtual History and the Bible asks where we are at the beginning of the new millennium and how we got that way. What if important events in ancient history had turned out differently? How different might the present century be? This is a volume about history, not fantasy or fiction. Sixteen eminent historians of the Bible discuss not only what might have happened differently but demonstrate how, in practice, biblical historians go about reconstructing the past.
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Brill Studies in International Law and History: An Asian Perspective
Book SynopsisAlthough modern international law is now recognized as universally applicable to all the states as soon as they emerge as independent entities (whether members of the United Nations or not, they are accepted as members of the ever-expanding international society, and are bound by its rules and seek its protection), this is only a recent phenomenon not older than the United Nations itself. Before the Second World War, modern international law was supposed to be merely a law of and for the civilized Western European Christian states, or states of European origin, and applicable only between them. Not only Asian and African states which had come to be colonized, but also the position of independent states, such as Persia, Siam, China, Abyssinia, and the like, was said to be anomalous. Since they belonged to different civilizations, questions were raised as to how far relations with their governments could be based on the rules of international law. If that is the case, when did European international law become universally binding? Can states, which did not, and could not, participate in its origin and development question some of its rules, which are inimical to their interests? How can and does this law change, or be modified, in the absence of any supra-national legislature or other authority? What has been the attitude and practice of these newly independent Asian and African states towards international law, which was largely developed by and for the benefit of the rich and industrialized states of Western Europe and the United States, and even more importantly, their role in its development? The author, an Asian scholar and well-known Professor of International Law, trained and educated in the West, has sought to deal with these and other questions in the nine papers contained in this book.Trade ReviewIn conclusion, one may say that the historical method of the book depicts the history of international law as always related to the history of international relations, and closely interwoven with domestic political history. Ranging among diverse topics within such a conception of history and law-making, this collection of essays never loses sight of the Asian point of view. The collection also serves as a showcase for new work in the fields of the author’s own expertise, concerned about the historical roots of international law, international cooperation, law of the sea, and above all the causes of inequality between states. Katharina Zobel in Journal of the History of International Law, 2006Table of ContentsPreface, Jawaharlal Nehru and International Law and Relations, Family of "Civilized" States and Japan: A Story of Humiliation, Assimiliation, Defiance and Confrontation, The Status of Tibet in International Law, Enhancing the Acceptability of Compulsory Procedures of International Dispute Settlement, The World Court on Trial, Common Heritage of Mankind: Mutilation of an Ideal, Navigation through Territorial Sea and Straits- Revisited, South Asia and the Law of the Sea: Problems and Prospects, A New International Economic Order for Sustainable Development?, Index
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Brill The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries
Book SynopsisThe nineteenth century laid the foundations of history as a professional discipline but also popularized and romanticized the subject. National histories were written and state museums founded, while collective memories were created in fiction and drama, art and architecture and through the growth of tourism and the emergence of a heritage industry. The authors of this collection compare Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium, unearthing the ways in which history was conceived and then utilized. They conclude that although nationalistic historicism ruled in all genres, the interaction of the nineteenth century with its imagined past was far richer and more complex, both across national borders and within them. Contributors include: Niek van Sas, Andrew Mycock, Marnix Beyen, Ellinoor Bergvelt, Joep Leerssen, Joanne Parker, Anna Vaninskaya, Jenny Graham, Tom Verschaffel, Saartje Vanden Borre, Hugh Dunthorne and Michael Wintle.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Ken Haley: An Appreciation, Bob Moore PART I : INTRODUCTORY Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands and the Historical Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century: An Introduction, Michael Wintle 1. From Waterloo Field to Bruges-la-Morte. Historical Imagination in the Nineteenth Century, Niek van Sas PART II : THE SCOPE AND LANGUAGE OF NATIONAL HISTORY 2. A Very English Affair? Defining the Borders of Nation and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Historiography, Andrew Mycock 3. Who is the Nation and What Does it Do? The Discursive Construction of the Nation in Belgian and Dutch National Histories of the Romantic Period, Marnix Beyen 4. The Colonies in the Dutch National Museums for Art and History (1800-1885), Ellinoor Bergvelt PART III: HISTORICAL FICTION AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY 5. ‘Retro-Fitting the Past’: Literary Historicism between the Golden Spurs and Waterloo, Joep Leerssen 6. The Victorians, the Dark Ages and English National Identity, Joanne Parker 7. ‘True Conception of History’: ‘Making the Past Part of the Present’ in late Victorian Historical Romances, Anna Vaninskaya PART IV: THE PAST IMAGINED IN THE VISUAL ARTS 8. Picturing Patriotism: The Image of the Artist-Hero in Britain and the Belgian Nation State, 1830-1900, Jenny Graham 9. In Search of the Historical Culture of Belgian Immigrants in Northern France, 1850-1914 , Saartje Vanden Borre and Tom Verschaffel 10. ‘Retracing the History of our Country’: National History Painting and Engraving in Britain and the Low Countries during the Nineteenth Century, Hugh Dunthorne General Bibliography Fifty Years of Anglo-Dutch Historical Conferences and Britain and the Netherlands Published Volumes, 1959-2012 Index
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Brill Al-Maqrīzīs Traktat über die Mineralien: Kitāb al-Maqāṣid al-saniyyah li-maʿrifat al-aǧsām al-maʿdiniyyah
Book SynopsisDer Historiograph al-Maqrīzī (15. Jh.) befasst sich in seinem kurzen Traktat mit den Mineralien, ihrer Klassifikation, ihren medizinischen Anwendungen sowie Theorien über ihre Entstehung. Käs legt hier erstmals eine kritische Textedition mit deutscher Übersetzung und ausführlichem Kommentar vor. The 15th century historiographer al-Maqrīzī deals in his short treatise with minerals, their classification, medicinal uses and theories of their coming into being. Käs presents for the first time a critical edition of this text along with a German translation and a detailed commentary.Trade Review"The outstanding work that Fabian Käs has done so far on the difficult and intriguing subject of Arabic mineralogy will hopefully redraw attention to this somewhat neglected but no less important field of research; and together with the recent study of al-Tīfāshī’s stone-book by Armin Schopen and Karl W. Strauß, it might even pave the way for other scholars to arrive at a deeper understanding of the multifaceted world which medieval mineralogy evokes. The book reviewed here is, in any case, a stunningly flawless achievement." Oliver Kahl in Journal of Semitic Studies, vol 61, no 2, October 2016.
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Brill Conflicting Values of Inquiry: Ideologies of Epistemology in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisHistorical research in previous decades has done a great deal to explore the social and political context of early modern natural and moral inquiries. Particularly since the publication of Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer’s Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985) several studies have attributed epistemological stances and debates to clashes of political and theological ideologies. The present volume suggests that with an awareness of this context, it is now worth turning back to questions of the epistemic content itself. The contributors to the present collection were invited to explore how certain non-epistemic values had been turned into epistemic ones, how they had an effect on epistemic content, and eventually how they became ideologies of knowledge playing various roles in inquiry and application throughout early modern Europe.Trade Review“this book is indispensable not only for those who want to know the intellectual panorama of the time, but also for those who want to understand the basis of rationality and historicity that constitutes epistemological thinking associated with ethical-moral development at the dawn of modernity." Luiz C. Bombassaro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 4 (Winter 2016), pp. 1470-1471.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Notes on Editors and Contributors Acknowledgements Values, Norms and Ideologies in Early Modern Inquiry: An Introduction Tamás Demeter Reason and Common Culture in Early-Modern Natural Philosophy: Variations on an Epistemic Theme Peter Dear Devices and Epistemic Values Sixteenth-Century Hydraulic Engineers and the Emergence of Empiricism Matteo Valleriani Visual Perception and the Cartesian Concept of Mind: Descartes and the Camera Obscura Daniel Schmal The Epistemology of Testimony Testimony and Empiricism: John Sergeant, John Locke, and the Social History of Truth John Henry Eight Days of Darkness in 1600: Hume on Whether Testimony Can Establish Miracles Falk Wunderlich Religion and Inquiry Kepler’s Revolutionary Astronomy: Theological Unity as a Comprehensive View of the World Giora Hon Natural Theology as Superstition: David Hume and the Changing Ideology of Natural Inquiry Tamás Demeter The Problem of Parallels as a Protestant Issue in Eighteenth-Century Hungary János Tanács Values in Controversy Newton’s Strategic Manoeuvring with Simple Colours and Diagrams: A Radical Historical Interpretation Gábor Áron Zemplén The Birth of Epistemological Controversy from the Spirit of Conflict Avoidance: Hobbes on Science and Geometry Axel Gelfert The Methods and Epistemic Virtues of a ‘Science of Man’ Analytic and Synthetic Method in the Human Sciences: A Hope that Failed Thomas Sturm The Science of Man and the Invention of Usable Traditions Eric Schliesser Ethics in Epistemology Francis Bacon on Charity and the Ends of Knowledge Sorana Corneanu Spinoza’s Ethics: A Dominion within a Dominion Ruth Lorand What was Kant’s Critical Philosophy Critical of? Catherine Wilson Index
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Brill The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts: Chinese and European Stories about Emperor Ku and His Concubines
Book SynopsisThe European view on history was shaken to its foundations when missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries discovered that Chinese history was older than European and Biblical history. With an analysis of the Chinese, Manchu and European sources on ancient Chinese history, this essay proposes an early case of “intercultural historiography,” in which historical texts of different cultures are interwoven. It focusses on the ways Chinese and European authors interpreted stories about marvellous births by the concubines of Emperor Ku. These stories have been the object of a wide variety of interpretations in Chinese texts, each of them representing a different historical genre. They are excellent case-studies to illustrate how the Chinese hermeneutic strategies shaped the diversity of interpretations given by Europeans.Trade Review"a sinological tour de force" (...) Standaert’s book on the intercultural “weaving of historical texts,” East–West, is an example of scholarship at its best. He has again offered a contribution to the fields of classical sinology and sino-missionary studies that shall remain a necessary voice in the scholarly discourse on how China and the West have encountered and changed oneanother in ways that have transformed the fabric of history." Anthony E. Clark, Whitworth University, Spokane, WA, Journal of Jesuit Studies 4 (2017)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii List of Tables and Figures viii Introduction 1 Part 1: Between Chinese and European Sources: Europeans Writing Chinese History in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 1 Comprehensive Histories in Late Ming and Early Qing and the Genealogy of the Gangjian 綱鑑 Texts 15 2 Jesuit Accounts of Chinese History and Chronology and Their Chinese Sources 94 Part 2: Between Text and Commentaries: Europeans Reading Chinese History in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 3 Chinese Interpretations of Marvellous Births 169 4 Jesuit Interpretations of Marvellous Births 226 Conclusion 303 Postface 315 Bibliography 322 Index 354
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Brill Pedro de Ribadeneyra’s 'Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom of England': A Spanish Jesuit’s History of the English Reformation
Book SynopsisIn 1588, the Spanish Jesuit Pedro de Ribadeneyra published a history of the English Reformation, which he continued to revise until his death in 1611. Spencer J. Weinreich’s translation is the first English edition of the History, one fully alive to its metamorphoses over two decades. Weinreich’s introduction explores the text’s many dimensions—propaganda for the Spanish Armada, anti-Protestant polemic, Jesuit hagiography, consolation amid tribulation—and assesses Ribadeneyra as a historian. The extensive annotations anchor Ribadeneyra’s narrative in the historical record and reconstruct his sources, methods, and revisions. The History, long derided as mere propaganda, emerges as remarkable evidence of the centrality of historiography to the intellectual, theological, and political battles of early modern Europe.Trade Review“Weinreich’s handling of Ribadeneyra’s text(s) is exemplary. He provides an accurate, elegant, fluid translation […] a truly remarkable achievement.” Freddy C. Dominguez, University of Arkansas. In: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 86, No. 171 (2017), pp. 219–221. “Weinreich’s translation of Ribadeneyra’s hefty work reads easily, and is footnoted throughout in helpful detail. There are several useful documents in the appendices and a biblical as well as a general index. At 110 pages Weinreich’s introductory essay is a short monograph in itself, full of insightful discussion. All in all, the volume represents a remarkable achievement on the part of a very early career scholar, and one hopes that it will be widely consulted and cited.” Peter Marshall, University of Warwick. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70, No. 3 (July 2019), pp. 636–637. “In addition to a clear sense-for-sense translation that renders masterful early modern Spanish rhetorical flourishes into elegant English, Weinreich’s volume features a wide array of valuable critical tools. Its bibliography and set of notes are almost encyclopedic. […]. Weinreich’s volume is an essential resource not only for those wishing to study British Catholicism from a more global, transnational perspective, but also for those examining early modern European ecclesiastical histories.” Deborah Forteza, Grove City College. In: British Catholic History, Vol. 34, No 1 (May 2018), pp. 175–177. “The treatment of historical, biographical, and bibliographical context is extremely thorough, in both the introduction and the annotations. Weinreich’s diligence re-introduces an eloquent voice into the debate about late sixteenth-century European politics and religious history.” Victor Houliston, University of the Witwatersrand. In: The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Summer 2018), pp. 550–551. “Ribadeneyra could do no better than to be Englished by Weinreich, in a book that promises to transform our understanding of early modern religious history through one of its most learned, prodigious, and impassioned voices.” Sarah Covington, CUNY. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4 (2018), pp. 689–691. “Esta traducción se convertirá [...] en un texto de referencia para los estudios sobre la Reforma en el mundo académico anglosajón”. Javier Burguillo, Universidad de Salamanca. In: Studia Aurea, Vol. 12 (2018), pp. 357–372.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Bibliographic Abbreviations List of Textual Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction The Life and Times of Pedro de Ribadeneyra From De origine ac progressu to the Historia The Politics of History, the Politics of the Historia The Spanish Armada The Second Volume of the Historia A Textual History of the Historia The Historia and the Society of Jesus “O ladies, no ladies at all”: Gender and Power in the Historia A Modern Historian? La cisma de Inglaterra and the reception of the Historia Assessing the Historia Notes on the Translation The Ecclesiastical History of the Schism of the Kingdom of England To our lord, Prince Don Philip The author, to the pious Christian reader The argument of the present history, and the origins of the lamentable schism in England Book 1 Chapter 1: Of the marriage of the Princess Doña Catherine to Arthur, prince of England, and of the marriage she contracted after his death with his brother, Henry. Chapter 2: How King Henry VIII married the Princess Doña Catherine, and of the children born to them. Chapter 3a: The title of Defender of the Faith given King Henry by the Apostolic See, and the reason for this. Chapter 3: Of the dissimilar habits of the queen and the king. Chapter 4: Of the cardinal of York’s ambition, and of the advice he gave the king concerning his marriage. Chapter 5: Of the king’s actions concerning his marriage to the queen, and what the French ambassador proposed to dissolve it. Chapter 6: Of the other means Wolsey used to achieve his end, and of his journey to France. Chapter 7: Of Anne Boleyn, her disposition and abilities. Chapter 8: What Thomas Boleyn and the councilors said to the king concerning Anne Boleyn, and how he responded. Chapter 9: What Wolsey negotiated in France, and his return to England. Chapter 10: Of the other actions the king took, the troubles of his heart, and those of Wolsey’s. Chapter 11: Of the ambassadors the king sent to the pope, and of His Holiness’s decision in the matter of the divorce. Chapter 12: What the queen wrote to the pope, what His Holiness decreed, and certain private matters that came to pass in this affair. Chapter 13: How the matter of the divorce began to be legally considered, and of the appeal lodged by the queen. Chapter 14: What Rochester and other worthy persons said in the queen’s favor, and what Campeggio answered concerning the sentence. Chapter 15: The king pressures the legate, the pope remands the case to himself, and Wolsey is arrested. Chapter 16: Of the other methods the king used to give color to his wickedness, and of the results. Chapter 17: Of the threats the king made against the pope, and of the death of Wolsey. Chapter 18: How the king named Cranmer as archbishop of Canterbury, of his sinful life, and of how he deceived the pope. Chapter 19: The conference between the kings of England and France, and what they discussed. Chapter 20: The king’s first attack on the clergy of England. Chapter 21: How the king, against the pope’s mandate, secretly married Anne Boleyn. Chapter 22: Of Thomas Cromwell, and of the heretics who flooded the king’s court, and what they proposed against the churchmen. Chapter 23: What parliament decreed concerning the clergy, and the judgment Cranmer gave in the king’s favor. Chapter 24: What Christendom thought of the king’s marriage, and Pope Clement’s sentence against him. Chapter 25: What Henry did when he learned of the pope’s sentence. Chapter 26: Of the parliament convened to approve the king’s marriage and to destroy religion. Chapter 27: Of the inhuman persecution the king initiated against all religious. Chapter 28: Of the illustrious men Thomas More and John of Rochester, and of the latter’s martyrdom. Chapter 29: The martyrdom of Thomas More. Chapter 30a: Other details of the life and death of Thomas More. Chapter 30: The sentence of Pope Paul III against King Henry. Chapter 31: Henry despoils the monasteries, and impoverishes himself with their wealth. Chapter 32: What the queen wrote to her confessor, encouraging him in the face of death, and how he answered her. Chapter 33: The death of Queen Doña Catherine and the letter she wrote to the king. Chapter 34: The king sentences Anne Boleyn to a public death, and the reason for this. Chapter 35: The king’s marriage to Jane Seymour, the sessions of parliament, the disturbances that arose in the realm, and the birth of Edward. Chapter 36: Cardinal Pole’s arrival in Flanders, and the results thereof. Chapter 37: The king’s cruelty against the Franciscans, and the death of Father Brother John Forest. Chapter 38: Of Henry’s sacrilege against the tombs, relics, and images of the saints, and the pope’s judgment against him. Chapter 39: The assault on the monasteries of England, and the tyranny with which it was done. Chapter 40: The death of Whiting, abbot of Glastonbury; the end of the religious orders in England; and the beginnings of the Society of Jesus. Chapter 41: Henry marries Anne of Cleves, exalts Cromwell, and imposes new burdens on his kingdom. Chapter 42: The king tires of and divorces his wife, after having Cromwell put to death. Chapter 43: Of Catherine Howard, Henry’s fifth wife, and how, after ordering her put to death, he married Katherine Parr. Chapter 44: How Henry declared himself king of Ireland, and the right the kings of England had to call themselves its lords. Chapter 45: The poverty Henry found himself in after despoiling the churches, and the taxes he imposed on his kingdom. Chapter 46: The king’s cruelty, and how the Lord punished his ministers for their sins. Chapter 47: The king’s last illness and death, and the provisions of his will. Chapter 48: Of Henry’s natural gifts and character. Chapter 49: How God punished King Henry through his own sins. Book 2 Chapter 1: How King Henry’s testament was disregarded, and how the earl of Hertford became protector of the realm. Chapter 2: The means the protector employed to pervert the faith of the boy king and that of the kingdom. Chapter 3: What parliament enacted against our sacred religion. Chapter 4: The Catholics’ sentiments, and the weakness they showed. Chapter 5: The Princess Doña Mary’s constancy in the Catholic faith, and the methods the heretics employed to separate her from it. Chapter 6: How the regents attempted to uproot the Catholic faith. Chapter 7: The things that happened to check the heretics. Chapter 8: How the protector killed his brother, and how he was overthrown and slain by the earl of Warwick. Chapter 9: The ambition of the earl of Warwick, who named himself duke of Northumberland; the death of King Edward and the succession of Queen Mary. Chapter 10: How the dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk proclaimed Jane queen of England, and what befell them. Chapter 11: What Queen Mary did on taking possession of the kingdom. Chapter 12: How the pope, at the queen’s entreaty, sent Cardinal Pole to England as his legate. Chapter 13: How the queen negotiated a marriage with the prince of Spain, and of the disturbances this provoked in the kingdom, and how they were quelled. Chapter 14: Of the devilish trick utilized by the heretics to interfere with the queen’s marriage to the prince of Spain. Chapter 15: How the queen’s marriage to King Don Philip took place, and with it the reconciliation of the realm with the Apostolic See. Chapter 16: The impediments to this reconciliation, and how they were resolved. Chapter 17: How the false bishops were punished, and Cranmer, primate of England, was burned. Chapter 18: How the universities were reformed, and our sacred religion flourished. Chapter 19: The death of Queen Mary. Chapter 20: Of the virtues of Queen Doña Mary. Chapter 21: How Queen Elizabeth’s reign began, and how the king of France considered her unfit to rule. Chapter 22: How the queen subsequently revealed herself as an enemy of Catholicism, and what she did to destroy it. Chapter 23: The parliament convened by the queen, and how she made it decide as she desired. Chapter 24: How the queen named herself supreme governor of the Church, and of the laws enacted about this. Chapter 25: The persecution initiated against the Catholics for refusing to recognize the queen as head of the Church. Chapter 26: The form the queen provided for church governance. Chapter 27: The means the pope and other Christian monarchs took to recall the queen, and the sentence Pope Pius V rendered against her. Chapter 28: What ensued from the bull’s publication in England. Chapter 29: The establishment of the English seminaries in Rheims and Rome, and their fruits. Chapter 30: The entry of the fathers of the Society of Jesus into England. Chapter 31: The harsh laws the queen enacted against the fathers of the Society of Jesus and the other Catholic priests. Chapter 32: Of the life, imprisonment, and martyrdom of Father Edmund Campion of the Society of Jesus. Chapter 33: Of the other martyrs and persecuted Catholics. Chapter 34: How the queen and her ministers claimed that the holy martyrs did not die for the sake of religion, but rather for other crimes. Chapter 35: The means the heretics employed to spin out their lies and make them seem like truth. Chapter 36: Various marvels that God has worked for the glory of the martyrs of England. Chapter 37: The martyrologies and calendars the heretics produced in England. Chapter 38: The false mercy the queen showed certain priests in banishing them from the kingdom. Chapter 39: The methods the queen has used to unsettle neighboring countries. Chapter 40: The imprisonment and death of Queen Mary of Scotland. Chapter 41: The happiness that the English heretics preach concerning their kingdom. The conclusion to this work. The third book of the ecclesiastical history of the schism of England To our lord the prince, Don Philip. To the benign and pious reader. Chapter 1: The edict passed against the Catholics by the advice of the earl of Leicester, and of his death, and that of several servants of God. Chapter 2: The falls of two Catholics, and what the Lord worked through them. Chapter 3: The martyrdom in Oxford of two priests and two Catholic laymen. Chapter 4: Further martyrs who died in London. Chapter 5: The death of Francis Walsingham, the queen’s secretary. Chapter 6: Of the crosses that appeared in England. Chapter 7: The arrival in England of several priests from the English seminary at Valladolid, and what came of this. Chapter 8: Of three false Puritan prophets who appeared in England. Chapter 9: The death of Christopher Hatton, chancellor of the realm. Chapter 10: The edict the queen proclaimed against priests and Catholics, and their deaths. Chapter 11: Of several prominent women who lost their wealth, honors, and lives for the Catholic faith. Chapter 12: The heretics seize four young brothers for their faith, and are left humiliated. Chapter 13: How the English heretics accuse the Catholics of being sorcerers. Chapter 14: The benefit the Catholics have derived from this persecution. Chapter 15: Why the Catholics of England refuse to attend the heretics’ synagogues or to recognize the queen as head of its church. Chapter 16a: The edict the queen promulgated against our sacred religion, and against the pope, and the Catholic King, who defend it. Chapter 16b: What is contained in the edict the queen promulgated against our sacred religion. Chapter 17: That this edict is sacrilegious and blasphemous against God. Chapter 18: The war in France, which the edict calls utterly unjust. Chapter 19: Of the English seminaries that have been established for the benefit of the kingdom of England. Chapter 20: How the heretics of England criticize the pope for the English seminaries he supports, while the new Christians of Japan thank him for having done the same in their land. Chapter 21: The qualities those entering the seminaries are to have, and the oath they take, and the things they do while there. Chapter 22: The spirit and manner in which these young men return to England. Chapter 23: How the seminarians return to England, and what they do there. Chapter 24: The edict’s cruelty against the seminarians and the Jesuits. Chapter 25: How false it is that none die in England for the sake of religion, as the edict claims. Chapter 26: The edict’s proofs that no one dies in England for reasons of religion. Chapter 27: That this edict is oppressive and intolerable to the entire kingdom of England. Chapter 28: Why they publish such false and damaging edicts. Chapter 29: What the instigators of this persecution ought to consider. Chapter 30: What ought to inspire the seminary priests and the other Catholics in this conquest. Chapter 31: A continuation of the preceding chapter, and an exposition of three particular reasons that may further inspire the martyrs. Chapter 32: Why God allows the English Catholics to be so persecuted. To the pious reader. A brief account of the martyrs who have departed the English colleges and seminaries at Rome and Rheims in France, and suffered in England in defense of the Catholic faith. Appendix I: The exhortation to the Armada A. Ribadeneyra’s letter to Doña Ana Félix de Guzmán, countess of Ricla and marchioness of Camarasa, c. May 1588. B. An exhortation to the soldiers and officers who embark upon this expedition to England, in the name of their captain-general. Appendix II: Ribadeneyra’s letter-memorial on the causes of the Armada’s failure (probably to Juan de Idiáquez y Olazábal). Appendix III: Luis de Granada on the Historia. Appendix IV: John Cecil’s letter to Joseph Cresswell, September 20, 1591. Appendix V: Manzano’s Breve catalogo. Bibliography Index
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Brill The Hellenica Oxyrhynchia and Historiography: New Research Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis book involves a new historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works as well as its role as a source of Diodorus’ Bibliotheke. The traditional and common approach taken by those who studied the HO is primarily historical: scholars have focused on particular, often isolated, topics such as the question of the authorship, the historical perspective of the HO against other Hellenica from the 4th century BC. This book is unconventional in that it offers a study of the HO and fifth- and fourth-century historical works supported by papyrological enquiries and literary strategies, such as intertextuality and narratology, which will undoubtedly contribute to the progress of research in ancient historiography.Trade Review"The book under review is the first systematic comparison of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia with a range of historians beyond the canonical comparanda (e.g. Thucydides and Xenophon), and it also recurs to narratology to understand the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia. (...) the essay will remain an important contribution in any future study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia and of fourth century historiography." - Salvatore Tufano, in: Sehepunkte, Ausgabe 17 Nr. 9 (2017) ''Occhipinti’s analysis is a refreshing contribution and stimulus in the renewed discussions on Diodorus. (…) I think Occhipinti largely meets the targets she (or the series editors) set her(self). I at least found it a joy to read this book.'' - Jan Stronk, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2017.10.39 "Occhipintis gründliche Studie richtet sich primär an Spezialisten der griechischen Historiographie, kann aber auch Lesern mit Interesse an allgemeiner griechischer Geschichte des 5.–4.Jh.s empfohlen werden." - Johannes Engels, in: Historische Zeitschrift 307 (2018) "Die elegant und gut lesbar geschriebene Studie von E. Occhipinti versucht eine neue Gesamtcharakterisierung der Darstellungsprinzipien des Autors und eine Beschreibung seines historiographischen Zugriffes." - Bruno Bleckmann, in: Gnomon 91 (2019)Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements 1 The HO in the View of Modern Scholars 1.1 The Authorship 1.2 A New Proposal and Old Theories 1.3 The HO and Xenophon’s Hellenica part 1 2 The Work and the Reader 2.1 The Narrative Character of Fourth-Century Hellenica 2.2 P. Oxy. V 842: Annalistic Framework, Synchronistic Narrative 2.3 The Historian’s Evaluation and Its Impact on the Readers 2.4 Conclusion 3 Spartan Motivations: the HO and Xenophon 3.1 Greek Hostility and Sparta’s Reasons 3.2 Sparta’s Asiatic Campaign and Its Analysis 3.3 Agesilaus’ Motivations and the Lasting Significance of the Spartan Campaign in Asia 3.4 The End of a Dream? 3.5 Conclusion 4 Diodorus, the HO and Xenophon: A Reassessment 4.1 The HO as a Source for Diodorus’ Bibliotheke 4.2 Diodorus’ Thirteenth Book and the Florence Papyrus 4.3 Diodorus, the Cairo Papyrus and Xenophon 4.4 Diodorus on Theramenes: Final Observations 4.5 Conclusion part 2 5 The HO and Athenian Polypragmosyne 5.1 Athenian πολυπραγμοσύνη: a Literary Topos 5.2 A Fourth-Century Debate? 5.3 Multa per Aequora… Sea Power and Athenian Motivation 5.4 Cnidus According to the Oxyrhynchus Historian: a Solely Persian Success 5.5 Conclusion 6 Terra Marique… 6.1 Decelea, or the Supremacy of Land over Sea 6.2 The Sea as a Barrier 6.3 τὸ συμπολιτεύειν: Thebes versus Boeotia? 6.4 Conclusion 6.5 Analytical Description of the Toponyms Occurring in the HO 7 Historiography and Hegemony 7.1 Sparta, or the Undisputed Hegemony 7.2 Diodorus and the Debate on Hegemony 7.3 Political Realities and Historiographical Simplifications 7.4 Conclusion 8 Historical Causation 8.1 Why Do Things Happen? 8.2 To Blame or not to Blame… Individual and Collective Responsibilities 8.3 Visibility and Clarity in Historical Causation 8.4 Thebes, or Intra-Greek Hostility 8.5 Stasis, or the Dimension of Internal Conflict. What Awareness of Thucydides? 8.6 Conclusion 9 ‘Moralism’ in Historiography 9.1 The HO and Thucydides: What ‘Moralism’? 9.2 ‘Moralism,’ ‘Morality,’ and Moral Lessons 9.3 Theopompus: ‘Moralism’ versus ‘Morality’? 9.4 Praise/Blame in Ephorus? 9.5 Conclusion Conclusion Appendix 1 A New Supplement for Lines 31–32 of the Theramenes Papyrus (P. Mich. 5982) 2 History, Oratory and Their Audiences 3 Diodorus and Rome 4 Translations Bibliography Index of Names Thematic Index
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Brill The Reformation of Historical Thought
Book SynopsisIn The Reformation of Historical Thought, Mark Lotito re-examines the development of Western historiography by concentrating on Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560) and his universal history, Carion’s Chronicle (1532). With the Chronicle, Melanchthon overturned the medieval papal view of history, and he offered a distinctly Wittenberg perspective on the foundations of the “modern” European world. Through its immense popularity, the Chronicle assumed extraordinary significance across the divides of language, geography and confession. Indeed, Melanchthon’s intervention would become the point of departure for theologians, historians and jurists to debate the past, present and future of the Holy Roman Empire. Through the Chronicle, the Wittenberg reformation of historical thought became an integral aspect of European intellectual culture for the centuries that followed.Trade Review“Mark Lotito has written an excellent book. Big in more than a physical sense, this book covers in great detail a wide range of historical actors across swathes of time, all with a view to understanding changes in historical thought.” David Gehring, University of Nottingham. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 71, No. 4 (2020), pp. 853–855.Table of ContentsDEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CHAPTERS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. THE FOURTH MONARCHY AND THE TRANSLATIO IMPERII 3. JOHANN CARION OF BIETIGHEIM: THE BERLIN COURT ASTRONOMER 4. CARION’S CHRONICLE: A WITTENBERG VIEW OF THE PAST 5. THE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF CARION’S CHRONICLE 6. THE LEGACY OF WITTENBERG HISTORIOGRAPHY 7. CONCLUSION APPENDICES APPENDIX A: CARION’S CHRONICLE – TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION APPENDIX B: CARION’S CHRONICLE – MANUSCRIPT NOTES APPENDIX C: CARION’S CHRONICLE – STEMMA OF EDITIONS APPENDIX D: CARION’S CHRONICLE – INDICES TO THE EDITIONS APPENDIX E: CARION’S CHRONICLE – CENSUS OF EDITIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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