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1603: Multiple Monarchy and Scottish Identity
Abstract Early modern geopolitics were largely driven by dynastic imperatives – births, marriages and deaths among Europe's royal families – and this article approaches the union of 1603 from the perspective of J. H. Elliott's A Europe of Composite Monarchies.
ROGER A. MASON
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Empiries artistiques à propos du lieu
Saying that we live somewhere is a tautology, in the sense that the very act of existence hinges upon where we are. A purely scientific approach to the notion of place seems inadequate for taking into account the totalising hold that places exercise over
Joseph Rabie
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The chorographic tradition and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish antiquaries [PDF]
The early modern phenomenon of British Antiquarianism can be traced to the Renaissance rediscovery of the classical chorographic tradition. While the term ‘chorography’ eventually fell out of use, its influence can still be seen in the works of later ...
Darrell J. Rohl
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The Joyous Entry of Albert and Isabella in Lille: History, Conquest and the Making of Belgium
This article investigates the planned festivities for the Joyous Entry of Archduke Albert and the Infanta Isabella Eugenia, joint sovereigns of the Low Countries since 1598, when they entered their city of Lille in 1600.
Ellen Wurtzel
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Les Méditerranéens et l’Atlantique dans l’Antiquité : géographies et anthropologie
The study focuses on the period stretching from the archaic Greek age (8th c. BC) to the Antonine dynasty (2nd c.), starting mostly from the Greek and Latin sources.
Jean Peyras
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‘Confluence of Costume, Cartography and Early Modern European Chorography’ [PDF]
Chorography appeared in early modern Europe as a broad strategy for world knowledge-seeking that gestured not only to physical descriptions of place, but combined for the first time in formal discourse, maps, costume descriptions, histories, chronologies
Michelle Moseley-Christian
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La Descrittione di tutta Italia di Leandro Alberti e il Theatrum Orbis Terrarum di Abraham Ortelius
Leandro Alberti’s Descrittione di tutta Italia and Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis TerrarumIn her essay on the Italian sources informing Abraham Ortelius’ pioneering Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Silvia Gaiga first demonstrates the enduring international ...
Silvia Gaiga
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Lionel Munby, Marxism, and Local History
Abstract A member of the Communist Party for thirty‐four years, and a key participant in the post‐War Communist Party Historians’ Group, Lionel Munby (1918–2009) is not among that Group's best‐known historians. Yet arguably he was more typical of its membership and outlook.
MARK GOLDIE
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ABSTRACT Revisiting the remarkable experimental work of the pioneering early twentieth‐century psychologist Mary Cheves West Perky (1875–1940), this article argues for the historiographical significance of her counterintuitive findings concerning the human imagination and the phenomenon of “reverse hallucination.” By means of an exhaustive and forensic
D. GRAHAM BURNETT
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Why John Mandeville’s "Travel book" was written? [PDF]
The article is devoted to the “Travel Book” which was written by John Mandeville in the middle of the 14th century and remained extremely popular over the next few centuries.
Olga Togoeva
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