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Book SynopsisA collection of fourteen interviews with prominent historians that originally appeared in The Historian between 1990 and 1995. Each of these scholars discusses at length historical methodology, the notion of historical perspective, and ultimately how he or she interprets the past.

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Book SynopsisIn bringing together these papers, Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe demonstrates the need for active participation of different disciplines in formulating questions about and interpretations of material culture in the Middle Ages. It celebrates the coming of age of historical archaeology, of which medieval archaeology is a subdiscipline. The papers collected are striking for their diversity of approaches and subject matter. They reflect the spirit of an open area excavation where specialists from many disciplines with diverging methodologies meet and work side by side. No paper is specifically devoted to an excavation report, although the majority of contributors made use of data from such reports. The collection is intended primarily as a sampler, but a thematic unity emerges around the potential of archaeological approaches to contribute to a political ecology of the medieval period. The volume is an indispensable offering for archaeologists and historians of the MTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction by Kathleen Biddick PART I: Organizing Space and Managing Resources The Multiple Estate: A Model for Tracing the Interrelationships of Society, Economy, and Habitat by Glanville R. J. Jones Fieldwork and Documentary Evidence for the Layout and Organization of Early Medieval Estates in the English Midlands by David Hall The Forest: Woodland and Wood-Pasture in Medieval England by Oliver Rackham PART II: Forming and Transforming Agricultural Systems in Temperate Europe Field Edge, Forest Edge: Early Medieval Social Change and Resource Allocation by Kathleen Biddick Some Ecological Dimensions of Medieval Field Systems by H. S. A. Fox Environmental, Ecological, and Agricultural Systems: Approaches to Simulation Modeling Applications for Medieval Temperate Europe by William S. Cooter Early Medieval Agriculture in Coastal Holland: The Evidence from Archaeology and Ecology by William H. TeBrake PART III: Reconstructing Material Worlds from Artifacts North Sea Trade Before the Vikings by Richard Hodges Morphological Analysis of Medieval Fine Pottery: Provenance and Trade Patterns in the Mediterranean World by Janet E. Buerger The Archaeozoology of the Anglo-Saxon Site at West Stow, Suffolk by Pamela Crabtree PART IV: Time-Depth and Settlement: Overview and Case Studies A Diachronic Model for Settlement and Land Use in Southern Burgundy by Carole L. Crumley An Experimental Model for Early Medieval Settlement in Southwestern Burgundy by Walter E. Berry Castle and Countryside: Capalbiaccio and the Changing Settlement History of the Ager Cosanus by Stephen L. Dyson PART V: Context and Concerns Current Research Concerns in Medieval Archaeology in West Germany by Walter Janssen Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn a series of essays readers will find information about modern scholarship on the subject of chivalry and various suggestions for ways to teach some familiar and unfamiliar chivalric materials. Short bibliographies are provided for teachers' further use.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction, by Howell ChickeringPart I: The Modern Study of Chivalry Modern Views of Medieval Chivalry, 1884–1984 by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams The Criticism of Chivalric Epic and Romance by Robert W. Hanning Teaching Chivalry: From Footnote to Foreground by Elizabeth B. Keiser and Bonnie Wheeler Part II: Historical and Visual Approaches Religious Writers and Church Councils on Chivalry by David Carlson Caballus et Caballarius in Medieval Warfare by Bernard S. Bachrach The Tournament: An Historical Sketch by Helmut Nickel The Technology of Chivalry in Reality and Romance by Rosemary Ascherl Medieval Seals and the Structure of Chivalri Society by Brigitte Bedos Rezak Early Medieval Images of the Horseman Re-Viewed by Linda Seidel Part III: Teaching Early Chivalric Literature Chevalier in Twelfth-Century French and Occitan Vernacular Literature by Margaret Switten The “Recréantise” Episode in Chrétien’s Erec et Enide by Nancy Bradley-Cromey Chivalric Education in Wolfram’s Parzival and Gottfried’s Tristan by Jill P. McDonald Using Translation by Dennis M. Kratz Part IV: Teaching Later Chivalric Literature Christine de Pizan on Chivalry by Charity Cannon Ward Malory’s Morte Darthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure by Dhira B. Mahoney Teaching the Pas d’Armes by Anthony Annunziata Teaching the Motifs of Chivalric Biography by William T. Cotton The Vows of the Pheasant and Late Chivalric Ritual by Gail Orgelfinger Caxton’s Chivalric Publications of 1480–85 by Jennifer R. Goodman The “Unknightly Knight”: Teaching Satires on Chivalry by Robert L. Kindrick Index

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Book SynopsisThe Modernization of the Western World presents an overview of the history of Western civilization and provides readers with the intellectual tools they need to comprehend how societies function and change. Covering Western history from ancient history to the current era of globalization, it draws on the tradition of historical sociology to describe the forces of social change and what they have meant to the lives of the people caught in the midst of them. This second edition is revised throughout to bring the content up to date with recent developments and discusses key themes such as terrorism, refugees, the European Union and multinational corporations. It also includes a new chapter on the Ancient World, covering this era from the advent of urbanization and agriculture in the Middle East to the fall of Rome and emergence of Christianity, providing valuable historical context.Clear and concise, this book succinctly illustrates the essential turning points iTable of ContentsPrefacePhysical Map of EuropePolitical Map of Contemporary Europe1. The Modernization of the Western World John McGrath and Jay P. Corrin2. Modernization and Social Change Kathleen Callanan Martin3. Europe in the Medieval Era John McGrath4. The Late Middle Ages and the Transformation of Medieval Society John McGrath5. The Italian Renaissance Kathleen Callanan Martin and John McGrath6. The Reformation Susan Hagood Lee7. Commerce, Cities, and Capitalism John McGrath8. The Centralization and Rationalization of the Political State John McGrath9. The Enlightenment John McGrath10. The French Revolution John W. Mackey11. The Industrial Revolution John W. Mackey12. Classical Liberalism and the Bourgeois State Kathleen Callanan Martin13. Karl Marx and the Socialist Response to Capitalism Kathleen Callanan Martin14. Nationalism and Nations John W. Mackey15. The Age of Empire John W. Mackey16. The Great War Benjamin E. Varat17. Europe between the Wars Jay P. Corrin18. The Rise of Fascism Jay P. Corrin19. Total War: World War II Michael G. Kort20. The Cold War Benjamin E. Varat21. Globalization and Social Change John McGrathGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisWhy was the Renaissance also the golden age of forgery?Forgery is an eternal problem. In literature and the writing of history, suspiciously attributed texts can be uniquely revealing when subjected to a nuanced critique. False and spurious writings impinge on social and political realities to a degree rarely confronted by the biographical criticism of yesteryear. They deserve a more critical reading of the sort far more often bestowed on canonical works of poetry and prose fiction. The first comprehensive treatment of literary and historiographical forgery to appear in a quarter of a century, Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe, 14501800 goes well beyond questions of authorship, spotlighting the imaginative vitality of forgery and its sinister impact on genuine scholarship. This volume demonstrates that early modern forgery was a literary tradition in its own right, with distinctive connections to politics, Greek and Roman classics, religion, philosoTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Forgery's ValhallaWalter Stephens and Earle A. Havens1. Hoax and Forgery, Whimsy and Fraud: Taxonomic Reflections on the Bibliotheca FictivaArthur Freeman2. Babelic Confusion: Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca FictivaEarle A. Havens3. Forgery, Misattribution, and a Case of Secondary Pseudonymity: Aethicus Ister's Cosmographia and Its Early Modern MultiplicationsFrederic Clark4. Marvelous History: Authority and Credibility in Medieval Histories of TroyE. R. Truitt5. Forging Relations between East and West: The Invented Letters of Sultan Mehmed IIJames K. Coleman6. Fashioning Noah: How a Forger Turned an Etruscan God into a Biblical FigureShana D. O'Connell7. Annius of Viterbo as a Student of the Jews: The Sources of His InformationAnthony Grafton8. Exposing the Archforger: Annius of Viterbo's First Master CriticWalter Stephens9. Inventing Gallic Antiquities in Renaissance FranceRichard Cooper10. Material and Textual Forgery in the Lead Books of GranadaA. Katie Harris11. Melchior Inchofer, S.J., and the Letter of the Virgin Mary to the Citizens of MessinaIngrid D. Rowland12. "Make Way for the Ghost!" Forgery, Patriotic Mythology, and the Living DeadKate E. Tunstall13. England's Ireland, Ireland's England: William Henry Ireland's National OffenseJack LynchContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating exploration of the new frontiersand unsettled geographical, temporal, and thematic bordersof early modern European history. The study of early modern Europe has long been the source of some of the most creative and influential movements in historical scholarship. New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship explores recent developments in historiography both to exhibit the field's continuing vibrancy and to highlight emerging challenges to long-assumed truths. Essays examine how key ideas and intellectual practices arose, circulated through scholarly culture, and gave way to subsequent forms Europe's transforming relationship with Asia, the Americas, Africa, and the rest of the world how overlooked evidence illuminates vital but obscured people, practices, and objects connections between disciplines, types of sources, time periods, and placesOpening up emerging possibilities, this book demonstrates that early modern European scholarship remains a source for gTable of ContentsIntroductionNicholas Popper and Ann BlairPart I. Chronological HorizonsChapter 1. Humanism between Middle Ages and RenaissanceElizabeth McCahill Chapter 2. From Renaissance to EnlightenmentWilliam J. BulmanPart II. Geographical HorizonsChapter 3. New Worlds, New Texts: Rewriting the Book of NatureDaniela BleichmarChapter 4. Beyond East and WestAlexander BevilacquaPart III. Disciplinary and Generic HorizonsChapter 5. Reconfiguring the Boundary between Humanism and PhilosophyJill KrayeChapter 6. The Varieties of Historia in Early Modern EuropeFrederic ClarkChapter 7. The Knowledge of Early Modernity: New Histories of Sciences and the HumanitiesNicholas PopperPart IV. Evidentiary HorizonsChapter 8. Material Histories: Museum Objects and the Material Culture of Early Modern EuropeAmanda WunderChapter 9. New Knowledge MakersAnn BlairChapter 10. History, Historians, and the Production of Societies in the Past and FutureYuen-Gen LiangEpilogueAnthony Grafton List of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndexColor illustrations follow page XXX

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Book SynopsisOffers multifaceted explorations of how Chinese Americans have shaped their ethnic culture and identities to claim recognition in America's multiracial, multicultural democratic stateTrade Review"Covering a wide range of historical and contemporary issues in Chinese American life, this anthology is vastly informed and filled with fresh research drawing on archives or documents that hitherto have not been accessed. The ideas contained in the essays are so original and comprehensive that together, they constitute both a theoretically and empirically engaging challenge to tradition-centric concepts in Chinese American studies. I find few existing scholarly works that can match the scope and depth of this volume's broad and thought-provoking coverage of Chinese American history." Xiao-huang Yin, author of Chinese American Literature since the 1850s "Chan's introductory chapter offers an excellent and comprehensive literature review to demonstrate the synergy in Chinese American History and historiography... Each chapter in this collection is remarkable for its interesting stories, keen observations, methodical analyses, and intriguing insights. The authors are attentive to detail and examine the complexities of the topics through a transnational or diasporic lens, avoiding ideological assertions and questionable assumptions... It makes an original contribution to Chinese American history and historiography, a topic that will surely continue to attract attention in the next several decades." The Journal of Chinese Overseas, November 2008 "The essays in this volume are based on themes that the community-based historian Him Mark Lai introduced. Sucheng Chan's introduction provides an up-to-date bibliographical essay on Chinese American historiography from its inception in the 1850s to after the mid-1980s, when Chinese American studies matured and became more objective... All of the chapters are well written and researched and contribute to our understanding of the Chinese American experience. I highly recommend this book." - Journal of American History, March 2009 "This anthology of seven fine essays honor[s] the pathbreaking, prolific, and generous historian Him Mark Lai...The editors have put together a thoughtful, remarkably cohesive collection that spans in chronological scope the late-nineteenth century to the present; nearly all of the contributors are historians... Taken together, this is a solid, versatile collection ideal for classroom use, or for readers interested in getting a taste of the vibrant state of Chinese American history, whether one calls it social, cultural, or political history." Western Historical Quarterly, Autumn 2009 "Put together by two leading scholars in the field, Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture represents an important contribution to the study of Chinese American history... [T]he anthology offers an important framework through the notion of 'politics of culture,' which is articulated in the preface written by Chan...The introduction, also by Chan, gives us a most comprehensive historiographical account of Chinese American history. Her discussions in the preface and introduction help us appreciate the intellectual importance and coherence of the book... In short, the intellectual insights of this compelling volume will benefit scholars of Chinese America as well as Asian America and immigration and ethnicity." - American Studies "This is a must read for those interested in the field of Chinese American history...This collection of essays...covers a broad range of both historical and contemporary issues and has none of the Western cultural biases usually seen in an anthology of this kind. Together, the authors of Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture represent cutting-edge scholarship from a new generation of Chinese historians. Their contributions make new and original inroads into Chinese American history and historiography, even as they challenge Western-centric concepts. The book is as timely as it is honest, and it will help to teach us to avoid the ideological assertions and questionable assumptions usually attached to Chinese American history. Sucheng Chan, in her introduction to this valuable new anthology, not only provides us with a comprehensive time line of Chinese American history...This book is a benchmark for our continued understanding of the Chinese American experience. It is also a very enjoyable read." The Journal of American Ethnic History, Winter 2011Table of ContentsIntroduction. Chinese American Historiography: What Difference Has the Asian American Movement Made? / Sucheng Chan; 1. History as Law and Life: Tape v. Hurley and the Origins of the Chinese American Middle Class / Mae M. Ngai; 2. The Activism of Left-wing and Communist Chinese Immigrants, 1927-1933 / Josephine Fowler; 3. Filling the Rice Bowls of China: Staging Humanitarian Relief during the Sino-Japanese War / Karen J. Leong and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu; 4. From Pariah to Paragon: Shifting Images of Chinese Americans during World War II / K. Scott Wong; 5. From Chop Suey to Mandarin Cuisine: Fine Dining and the Refashioning of Chinese Ethnicity during the Cold War Era / Madeline Y. Hsu; 6. Searching for Roots in Contemporary China and Chinese America / Andrea Louie; 7. The "Spirit of Changle": Constructing a Chinese Regional Identity in New York / Xiaojian Zhao Contributors; Index

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Book SynopsisIn a career spanning more than sixty-five years, John Lukacs (1924-2019) established himself as one of our most accomplished historians. In History and the Human Condition, Lukacs offers his profound reflections on the very nature of history, the role of the historian, the limits of knowledge, and more.

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Book SynopsisIn World War I, Major General Pershing proposed the idea of establishing a historical office within the AEF headquarters. The War Department reorganised the General Staff to include a Historical Branch. Evidence shows that soldiers acting as historians went "down range," albeit not into combat. By World War II, the situation had changed – whether S.L.A. Marshall's popping out of a billet in Sibret as a shells exploded on the road; Forrest Pogue's typing "on a little camp desk under an apple tree;" Chester Starr's terrain reconnaissance in the Mediterranean theater, or Ken Hechler's command of a four-man historical team interviewing soldiers at the Remagen Bridge and searching through secret documents – the World War II combat historians were there behind and on the front lines with a notebook in one hand and their carbine in the other hand, ever ready to collect battlefield information.Eight historical service detachments were deployed to Korea. The youngest commander, 1st Lieutenant Bevin Alexander, noted "We were on the front lines the whole time… We would interview the people afterwards and create a battle study." After the Korean War, the duties of the combat historian further evolved as what became the Center of Military History published doctrine about military history detachments (MHDs). As America’s immersion in Vietnam escalated, there was concern regarding historical coverage. Chief of Military History Brigadier General Hal Pattison established a network of historical teams to collect information on the U.S Army in the war. A major development in the history program and in deploying MHDs came with the establishment of Headquarters, U.S. Army Vietnam (USARV) under General William C. Westmoreland’s command. In 1965, the history office was organised at Headquarters, U.S. Army Vietnam (USARV). MHDs were deployed across Vietnam, conducting combat after action interviews, and collecting documents. This study focuses on U.S. Army historical programs during combat operations from World War I to the Vietnam War with particular attention on the combat historians, those individuals deployed to a theater of war with the mission of documenting the actions of that theater for current and future historical use.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: World War I and the Beginning of Army Wartime History Operations Chapter II: Post-World War I Army Military History Operations Chapter III: Establishing the World War II Army Historical Program Chapter IV: Training the World War II Combat Historian Chapter V: Historical Program in the European Theater of Operations Chapter VI: Army Combat Historians in the Pacific Theater Chapter VII: Army Combat History Operations in the Mediterranean Theater Chapter VIII: Post-World War II Army Military History Doctrine Chapter IX: Korean War and Army Combat History Operations Chapter X: Post Korean War Army Military History Doctrine Chapter XI: The Vietnam War and Army Combat History Operations Epilogue Appendix A: Marshall's How To Do It for Historical Officers Bibliography Endnotes Index

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Book SynopsisExemplary Violence explores the violent colonial history of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia and Venezuela) by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts—Pedro Simón’s Noticias historiales, Juan Rodríguez Freile’s El carnero, and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita’s Historia general—each of which reveals the colonizer’s reliance on the threat of violence to sustain order.Trade Review"Exemplary Violence makes an important contribution by putting Juan Rodríguez Freile’s El carnero—long appreciated for its salacious anecdotes of sin in colonial society—in dialogue with lesser-known works by Pedro Simón and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita. Villate-Isaza offers new insights on their efforts to reinforce European cultural values and ideologies even as they grapple with the evident failures of evangelization and colonial government in New Granada." -- Sarah Beckjord * author of Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Ch *"Exemplary Violence offers a rigorous and innovative comparative analysis of three key figures in the literary colonial canon in Colombia: Fray Pedro Simón, Juan Rodríguez Freile, and Lucas Fernández de Piedrahita. Using the concept of baroque allegory, this book wisely explores the tension between culture and barbarism that inspired these authors to transform history in their attempt to overcome, in writing, the early crisis of the Spanish colonial discourse." -- Rubén Sánchez-Godoy * author of El peor de los remedios: Bartolomé de Las Casas y la crítica temprana a la esclavitud Afri *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction PART I Narrative Tensions 1 A Rhetorical Balancing Act 2 Instructing through Negative Examples 3 Nudity Is the Disguise: Political and Moral Instruction PART II Authority and Evasion 4 The Authority to Displace and Adapt the Past 5 Founding Principles 6 The Constant Threat of Beauty and Wealth Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEnlightenment critics from Dryden through Johnson and Wordsworth conceived the modern view that art and especially literature entails a double reflection: a reflection of the world, and a reflection on the process by which that reflection is accomplished. Instead “neoclassicism” and “Augustanism” have been falsely construed as involving a one-dimensional imitation of classical texts and an unselfconscious representation of the world. In fact these Enlightenment movements adopted an oblique perspective that registers the distance between past tradition and its present reenactment, between representation and presence. Two modern movements, Romanticism and modernism, have appropriated as their own these innovations, which derive from Enlightenment thought. Both of these movements ground their error in a misreading of “imitation” as understood by Aristotle and his Enlightenment proponents. Rightly understood, neoclassical imitation, constitutively aware of the difference between what it knows and how it knows it, is an experimental inquiry that generates a range of prefixes—“counter-,” “mock-,” “anti-,” “neo-”—that mark formal degrees of its epistemological detachment. Romantic ideology has denied the role of the imagination in Enlightenment imitation, imposing on the eighteenth century a dichotomous periodization: duplication versus imagination, the mirror versus the lamp. Structuralist ideology has dichotomized narration and description, form and content, structure and history. Poststructuralist ideology has propounded for the novel a contradictory “novel tradition”—realism, modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism—whose stages both constitute a sequence and collapse it, each stage claiming the innovation of the stage that precedes it. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"The essays collected in these remarkable volumes offer a stirring defense of the revolutionary nature of early Enlightenment thought. McKeon reminds us—forcefully—just how much insight and reach can be achieved by an intellectual history as fearless and dialectical as his."— Wolfram Schmidgen, author of Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688-1730 "Michael McKeon’s signal achievement as an intellectual historian and literary scholar is to capture the force of concepts in the making. His account of the Enlightenment is unparalleled in its depth and breadth."— Frances Ferguson, author of Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action "With one party to the culture wars monumentalizing the dubious sides of imperialism and their opposition editing history to shame them, it is a welcome sign to see Michael McKeon returning to the history of the Enlightenment in order to use periodization ‘as a tool to think with.'"— Jonathan Lamb, author of Scurvy: The Disease of Recovery "Historicizing the Enlightenment adds to intellectual history’s customary mix of political, social, economic, and religious contexts a detailed analysis of literary works, period aesthetics, and cultural commentary. These two volumes will be essential reading for scholars across a number of fields."— April London, author of The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century NovelTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Sciences as a Model for the Arts: A Synchronic Inquiry 2 From Ancient Mimesis to Modern Realism: A Diachronic Inquiry 3 The Historicity of Literary Conventions: Family Romance 4 The Historicity of Literary Genres: Pastoral Poetry 5 Political Poetry: Comparative Historicizing, 1650-1700, 1930-1980 6 Paradise Lost as Parody: Period, Genre, and Conjectural Interpretation Acknowledgments Source Notes Notes Index

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Book SynopsisKeppel Archibald Cameron Creswell (1879-1974) developed an early interest in Islamic architecture, which became his main area of research at the time of his military posting in Egypt, in 1916. His publications are still fundamental research tools for scholars in the field. Creswell considered photography as an essential tool for recording architectural artefacts, and this volume deals with the photographs that concern Mesopotamia, Syria and Jordan, kept today at the Biblioteca Berenson, of the Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in Florence. On the whole, they can be dated between 1919 and 1930. Many of the sites and monuments photographed by Creswell are still standing, but there are many others that no longer exist, or have been significantly modified. Geolocations for all the photographed monuments can also be viewed on Google My Maps. For this reason, the Creswell photo collection is an exceptional resource for the study of ancient monuments, especially for any conservation and restoration project.Table of ContentsA martyr for Islamic architectural history, by Spyros Koulouris ; Processing the photo archive ; Archival descriptions ; Studying the past – working for the future ; Introduction ; Creswell and the Berenson Collection ; Biographical sketch ; Creswell photographer: the working method ; Creswell’s legacy of photographs ; Creswell’s collection at the Biblioteca Berenson ; Mesopotamia, Syria and Transjordan in Creswell’s photographs ; Mesopotamia, Syria and Transjordan at the end of World War I ; Photographers in Mesopotamia, Syria and Transjordan prior to Creswell’s work ; The sites and the monuments ; Mesopotamia ; Birecik ; Harran ; Samarra ; Qantarat Harba ; Baghdad ; Al-Madain – Taq Kisra ; Al-Ukhaidir ; Syria ; Ancient churches of Northern Syria: Qalat Siman, Qalb Lawzah and Ruweiha ; Aleppo ; Masyaf ; Hama ; Homs ; Damascus ; Transjordan ; Amman ; Iraq al-Amir ; Qusayr Amra ; Conclusions ; Appendixes ; 1. Register of photographers in Mesopotamia, Syria and Transjordan between the 1840s and the 1930s ; 2. Register of Creswell’s photographs of the Biblioteca Berenson ; 3. Synopsis of Creswell’s photographs in the different archives ; 4. Sites and monuments geolocation, by Francesco Saliola (Free online resource ) ; Bibliographic references ; Arabic Summary

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Book SynopsisThis collection represents most of the papers delivered on the conference theme of the Fifth Meeting (1991) of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, which was the first ISAS meeting in the United States: how the subject of Anglo-Saxon Studies is conducted in the United States. After an introduction by the dean of Anglo-Saxon Studies in America, Fred C. Robinson, the seventeen papers discuss Historiography, Medieval Reception of Anglo-Saxon England, Art and Archaeology, Literary Approaches, and Manuscript Studies. There is an index of the whole, manuscript citations included.Table of ContentsPreface by Paul E. Szarmach and Joel T. Rosenthal Introduction: Transmitting What Is Preserved: How Are We Doing? by Fred C. RobinsonHistoriography Henry Adams and the Anglo-Saxons by Robin Fleming Nineteenth-Century America and the Study of the Anglo-Saxon Language: An Introduction by J. R. Hall My Professor of Anglo-Saxon Was Frederick Klaeber: Minnesota and Beyond by Helen Damico Writ in Ancient Character and of No Further Use: Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in American Collections by William P. StonemanMedieval Reception of Anglo-Saxon England The Franks and the English in the Ninth Century Reconsidered by Janet L. Nelson The Preservation and Transmission of Northumbrian Culture on the Continent: Alcuin's Debt to Bede by George H. Brown The Preservation of Anglo-Saxon Culture after 1066: Glastonbury, Wales, and the Normans by David A. E. Pelteret The Influence of Anglo-Saxon Genesis Iconography on Later English Medieval Manuscript Art by Herbert R. BroderickPresent State and Future Directions: Art and Archaeology Anglo-Saxon Art: So What's New? by Robert Deshman Not Why But How: The Contribution of Archaeological Evidence to the Understanding of Anglo-Saxon England by Rosemary CrampLiterary Approaches Ceteris Imparibus: Orality/Literacy and the Establishment of Anglo-Saxon Literate Culture by Ursula Schaefer Subjectivity/Orality: How Relevant Are Modern Literary Theories to the Study of Old English Poetry? What Light Can the Study of Old English Poetry Cast on Modern Literary Theory? by Rosemary HuismanManuscript Studies Variant Texts of An Old English Homily: Vercelli X and Stylistic Readers by Jonathan Wilcox The Hatton MS of the West Saxon Gospels: The Preservation and Transmission of Old English by Andreas Fischer Franciscus Junius and the Versification of Judith Francisci Junii in memoriam: 1591-1991 by Peter J. Lucas The Preservation and Transmission of Aelfric's Saints' Lives: Reader-Reception and Reader-Response in the Early Middle Ages by Joyce Hill Aelfric's De Initio Creaturae and London, BL Cotton Vespasian A.xxii: Omission, Addition, Retention, and Innovation by Robert McColl Millar and Alex Nicholls

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Book SynopsisThe American Revolution in New Jersey lasted eight long years, during which many were caught in the middle of a vicious civil war. Residents living in an active war zone took stands that varied from “Loyalist” to “Patriot” to neutral and/or "trimmer" (those who changed sides for a variety of reasons). Men and women, Blacks and whites, Native Americans, and those from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds, with different religious affiliations all found themselves in this difficult middle ground. When taking sides, sometimes family was important, sometimes religion, or political principles; the course of the war and location also mattered. Lurie analyzes the difficulties faced by prisoners of war, the refugees produced by the conflict, and those Loyalists who remained, left as exiles, or surprisingly later returned. Their stories are interesting, often dramatic, and include examples of those literally caught in the crossfire. They illustrate the ways in which this was an extremely difficult time and place to live. In the end more of the war was fought in New Jersey than elsewhere, resulting in the highest number of casualties, and a great deal of physical damage. The costs were high no matter what side individuals took. Taking Sides uses numerous brief biographies to illustrate the American Revolution’s complexity; it quotes from documents, pamphlets, diaries, letters, and poetry, a variety of sources to provide insight into the thoughts and reactions of those living through it all. It focuses on people rather than battles and provides perspective for the difficult choices we make in our own times. Supplemental Instructor Resources for Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey:Questions (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/19144155/Taking-Sides-Supplementary-Instructor-Resources-Questions.pdf)Bibliography (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/19144154/Taking-Sides-Supplementary-Instructor-Resources-Bibliography.pdf)Trade Review"Lurie’s scholarship demonstrates her unmatched grasp of the American Revolution in New Jersey. Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey contributes to a deeper understanding of the revolutionary era." -- Jonathan Mercantini * author of Who Shall Rule at Home: The Evolution of South Carolina’s Political Culture, 1748-1776 *"With this volume, Lurie solidifies herself as the leading scholar of Revolutionary New Jersey by uncovering the vital role that people played in creating the 'messy complexity' of the Revolution in New Jersey. Lurie convincingly shows that Americans did not all agree on a path forward in 1776, joining the Patriots, Crown, or remaining neutral for a myriad of complex reasons. Taking Sides deftly exposes the civil war underway in the young state, including the war’s devastating economic toll on the state and its dramatic effect on individual people’s lives." -- James Gigantino * author of The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey *"Taking Sides uses numerous brief biographies to illustrate the American Revolution's complexity; it quotes from documents, pamphlets, diaries, letters, and poetry, a variety of sources to provide insight into the thoughts and reactions of those living through it all. It focuses on people rather than battles and provides perspective for the difficult choices we make in our own times." * New York Almanack *Table of ContentsList of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Overview of the Revolution in New Jersey: ChronologyChapter 2. Patriots Part I: The Adamant and DeterminedChapter 3. Patriots Part II: In the MaelstromChapter 4. Straddlers, Trimmers, and OpportunistsChapter 5. The Society of Friends (Called Quakers): Pacifists and ParticipantsChapter 6. Loyalists Part I: The IrreconcilablesChapter 7. Loyalists Part II: Remained or ReturnedChapter 8. EpilogueNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisBei städtischen Familienbüchern handelt es sich um Sammelhandschriften, in denen unter anderem stadtgeschichtliche Texte mit familienbezogenen Aufzeichnungen kombiniert wurden. Marco Tomaszewski fragt nach Verwendungsweisen und kommunikativen Reichweiten dieser spätmittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Quellen, indem er die Bücher im Rahmen der städtischen Kommunikation kontextualisiert. Dabei zeigt sich, dass ihr zeitgenössischer Gebrauch gerade im Spannungsfeld zwischen familiärer Exklusivität und städtischer Öffentlichkeit zu verstehen ist.Die heutige Wahrnehmung dieser Quellen wird maßgeblich durch Editionen beeinflusst, die jedoch ein ganz anderes Bild als die Handschriften bieten und daher ihrerseits historisiert werden müssen. Aus diesem Grund sind neben der vormodernen Überlieferung auch die Entstehungskontexte der Editionsreihe Basler Chroniken Thema des Buches.

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