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Geography’s medieval history

Dialogues in Human Geography, 2011
This paper examines the marginal place of ‘medieval geography’ in contemporary geographical scholarship. Over the past two decades, geographers' studies of the subject’s historiography have tended to focus mainly on ‘modern’ and ‘early-modern’ rather than medieval geographies.
K. Lilley
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The History of Medieval Theatre / Theatre of Medieval History: Dramatic Documents and the Performance of the Past

History Compass, 2009
Theatre history has long been a sub-discipline of literary criticism or, more recently, performance studies; it is usually not the province of trained historians.
C. Symes
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The Cambridge World History of Slavery

, 2021
Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages.
K. Bradley, Paul Cartledge, D. Eltis, S. Engerman   +3 more
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Chronicles The Writing Of History In Medieval England

, 2016
chronicles the writing of history in medieval england is available in our book collection an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly. Our digital library hosts in multiple locations, allowing you to get the most less latency

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The Medieval Church: A Brief History

, 2014
List of figures. List of maps. Preface to the 1st edition. Preface to the 2nd edition. Publisher's acknowledgements. Glossary. Chapter 1: The basics of Christianity. Chapter 2: Ancient Christianity. Chapter 3: Beginnings of the medieval church. Chapter 4:
Joseph H. Lynch
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Three Patterns of Social Mobility in Medieval History

, 1973
Three Patterns of Social Mobility in Medieval History Medieval rulers and philosophers repeatedly affirmed that the divine will had established social inequality, and that the good Christian should be content with his station in life.
D. Herlihy
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The Pathogenesis of Medieval History

Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 2002
"History," insists Paul Ricoeur, "is history only insofar as it has not attained either absolute discourse or absolute singularity, insofar as its meaning remains confused, mixed." Belonging to the "the realm of the inexact," history is in Ricoeur's view "essentially equivocal."1 What leads Ricoeur to characterize history in this way is one of my ...
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Readings in Medieval History

, 1991
This course is (with History 402) half of a readings / research seminar sequence. Since medieval history is a secondary field for most of you, the focus of this readings seminar will be to provide an introduction to some of the important issues, to a ...
P. Geary
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After Rome's fall : narrators and sources of early medieval history : essays presented to Walter Goffart

, 1998
This richly documented collection of essays, commissioned from a distinguished group of historians, deals with a wide range of issues in the medieval and modern historiography of the early middle ages.
A. Murray
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From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean: Medieval History in Geographic Perspective

Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2002
It is widely acknowledged that Orientalist notions of political economy were marred by geographic determinism. From Marx to Wittfogel, generic concepts such as the “Asiatic mode of production,” the “hydraulic state” or “Oriental despotism” involved ...
A. Wink
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