Book Reviews

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 662-663
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lewis And Clark ◽  
The Middle Ages

Eric Tymoigne of Lewis and Clark College reviews “Money in the Western Legal Tradition: Middle Ages to Bretton Woods,” edited by David Fox and Wolfgang Ernst. The Econlit abstract for this book begins: “Thirty-three papers, most previously presented at conferences held in Cambridge in 2011 and 2012 and supported by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, provide a history of some of the main topics in the monetary law of the civil law and common law systems at different stages of its development over the past eight hundred years, from the Middle Ages until the Bretton Woods agreements of 1944.”

scholarly journals Peripheral facial palsy in the past: contributions from Avicenna, Nicolaus Friedreich and Charles Bell

2008 ◽  
Vol 66 (3b) ◽  
pp. 765-769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Antonio de Lima Resende ◽  
Silke Weber
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Facial Palsy ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Human Race ◽  
The Past ◽  
Peripheral Facial Palsy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Clinical Description ◽  
The Middle Ages

This study provides historical documents of peripheral facial palsy from Egypt, Greece and Rome, through the middle ages, and the renaissance, and into the last four centuries. We believe that the history of peripheral facial palsy parallels history of the human race itself. Emphasis is made on contributions by Avicenna and Nicolaus Friedreich. Controversies about the original clinical description by Charles Bell are also discussed.

The Staging of the Chester Cycle: An Alternate Theory

1971 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Powlick
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Religious Drama ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

The past fifteen years have been a period of active revisionism in the study of the stage history of medieval England. Through the efforts of Richard Southern, Martial Rose, and others, we have gained a quite different perspective on the staging of the religious drama of the Middle Ages. Now the Cornish plays are no longer considered to be an aberration, for we have seen the principle of stationary performance extended to Wakefield and Lincoln, and enough questions have been raised concerning performance in York that processional staging even there seems doubtful. More and more we are being led to the conclusion that not processional staging on pageant carts, but stationary performance was the norm in England, just as it was on the Continent.

Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Levi Roach
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Middle Ages

This book takes a fresh look at documentary forgery and historical memory in the Middle Ages. In the tenth and eleventh centuries, religious houses across Europe began falsifying texts to improve local documentary records on an unprecedented scale. As the book illustrates, the resulting wave of forgery signaled major shifts in society and political culture, shifts which would lay the foundations for the European ancien régime. Spanning documentary traditions across France, England, Germany and northern Italy, the book examines five sets of falsified texts to demonstrate how forged records produced in this period gave voice to new collective identities within and beyond the Church. Above all, the book indicates how this fad for falsification points to new attitudes toward past and present — a developing fascination with the signs of antiquity. These conclusions revise traditional master narratives about the development of antiquarianism in the modern era, showing that medieval forgers were every bit as sophisticated as their Renaissance successors. Medieval forgers were simply interested in different subjects — the history of the Church and their local realms, rather than the literary world of classical antiquity. As a comparative history of falsified records at a crucial turning point in the Middle Ages, the book offers valuable insights into how institutions and individuals rewrote and reimagined the past.

scholarly journals Book reviews - Crítica de libros - Crítica de livros (Historia Agraria, 85)

2021 ◽  
pp. 249-293
Author(s):  
Carin Martiin ◽  
José Luis Martínez-González ◽  
Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz ◽  
Miguel Cabo Villaverde ◽  
Javier Esparcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Field ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Dairy Industry ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

Book reviews - Crítica de libros - Crítica de livros Markus Lampe & Paul Sharp: A Land of Milk & Butter. How Elites Created the Modern Dairy Industry Carin Martiin Christopher Dyer, Erik Thoen and Tom Williamson: Peasants and their fields. The rationale of open-field agriculture, c. 700-1800 José Luis Martínez-González Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo (Ed.): Archaeology and History of Peasantries 1. From the Late Prehistory to the Middle Ages. Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz Dietmar Müller: Bodeneigentum und Nation. Rumänien, Jugolawien und Polen im europäischen Vergleich Miguel Cabo Villaverde Fernando Collantes y Vicente Pinilla: ¿Lugares que no importan? La despoblación de la España rural desde 1900 hasta el presente Javier Esparcia Francesc Valls Junyent: La Catalunya atlántica. Aguardiente y tejidos en el arranque industrial catalán Llorenç Ferrer-Alòs Elena Catalán Martínez, Gabriel Jover Avellà y Enrique Llopis Agelán (Eds.): El delme com a font per a la història rural Pegerto Saavedra Jaume Torras Elias: Canvis i conflictes en el món rural català (segles xviii-xix). Onze estudis d’història econòmica i social Jesús Millán García-Varela Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco (Ed.): Los «años del hambre». Historia y memoria de la posguerra franquista José Miguel Martínez Carrión Fernando Collantes: ¿Capitalismo coordinado o monstruo de Frankenstein? La Política Agraria Común y el modelo europeo, 1962-2020 Alicia Langreo Navarro Sergio Molina García: Una llave para Europa. El debate agrario franco-español y la adhesión de España a la CEE (1975-1982) Rafael Castro

scholarly journals W skali szarości – krótka historia srebrzystego ołowiu łączącego kolorowe szkła witrażowe

2021 ◽  
pp. 291-309
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Pyka
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Stained Glass ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Glass Compositions ◽  
The Middle Ages

Katarzyna Pyka discusses lead as a substance which for centuries has made possible stained glass glazing both in sacral and secular buildings. This article focuses on the uses of lead and compares the work of stained glass artists in the past and today. Contrary the associations of this craft with vivid multicolored compositions, Pyka has decided to keep her discussion in grayscale; her purpose has been to emphasize the importance of this silvery metal, which has enriched the history of art from the Middle Ages by making possible the beauty of stained glass compositions.

BOOK REVIEWS

1937 ◽  
Vol 15 (43) ◽  
pp. 35-39
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The United States ◽  
Diplomatic History ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

Abstract Book reviewed in this article: ‘The Cambridge Medieval History.’ Vol. viii. ‘The Close of the Middle Ages’ ‘Guide to the Diplomatic History of the United States, 1775–1921’. By S. F. Bemis and Grace G. Griffin

scholarly journals HENRY HALLAM REVISITED

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 453-473
Author(s):  
MICHAEL BENTLEY
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
David Hume ◽  
The State ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Law And Science ◽  
The Middle Ages

ABSTRACTAlthough Henry Hallam (1777–1859) is best known for his Constitutional History of England (1827) and as a founder of ‘whig’ history, to situate him primarily as a mere critic of David Hume or as an apprentice to Thomas Babington Macaulay does him a disservice. He wrote four substantial books of which the first, his View of the state of Europe during the middle ages (1818), deserves to be seen as the most important; and his correspondence shows him to have been integrated into the contemporary intelligentsia in ways that imply more than the Whig acolyte customarily portrayed by commentators. This article re-situates Hallam by thinking across both time and space and depicts a significant historian whose filiations reached to Europe and North America. It proposes that Hallam did not originate the whig interpretation of history but rather that he created a sense of the past resting on law and science which would be reasserted in the age of Darwin.

scholarly journals Old Tales for a New Gens. Alberic of Trois-Fontaines’ Grafting of History

2022 ◽  
Vol 124 ◽  
pp. 149-179
Author(s):  
Antoni Grabowski
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Universal History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages

Throughout the Middle Ages, waves of people came to the lands once been a part of the Roman Empire. At the same time, lands yet unknown encountered the successors of the Empire. These gentes sometimes preserved a long history of their paths to their new homelands. The Longobards, the Saxons, and many others had an origo gentis, where gods played an important role. These narrations were incorporated into a historiography that was almost entirely Christian. This article is concerned with the methods used to find harmony between the past and present by Alberic of Trois-Fontaines when writing about the Semigallians. The narrative of their origins used established motifs and themes that made it possible to include the invented history of the gens into the then-established universal history. This was done through the etymology of names or the erudite use of the writings of other authors. These new gentes were grafted onto the trees of old tales.

scholarly journals Mit fundacyjny Rzeczypospolitej w Kursie pierwszym Prelekcji Paryskich Adama Mickiewicza

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Ewa Hoffmann-Piotrowska
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Political History ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Model ◽  
The Middle Ages

The Foundational Myth of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Mickiewicz’s Kurs pierwszy from Paris Lectures  The article attempts to recreate Mickiewicz’s vision of Polish Medieval history in the context of the history of Slavdom as it is presented by him in the speeches from Kurs pierwszy from the Paris lectures. Invoking particular facts from the first centuries of Polish history and interpreting them in a particularly individual manner – frequently contrary to the traditional historical narrative, Mickiewicz rediscovered the foundational myth of the Commonwealth of the nobles in the history of the Piast and Jagiellonian Poland; furthermore, the whole of the Medieval period served Mickiewicz as a universal political model worthy of translation to the poet’s contemporary  period. The modern christianitas state model, which Mickiewicz will later design in his writings from 1830s and 1840s, had its roots precisely in this reinterpreted political history of the Middle Ages. When discussing the past, Mickiewicz first and foremost advocated talking about the present and the future of Poland and Europe. Underscoring the strong relationship between Poland and Rome as well as the ties with Western Christendom – as it used to be done in the Middle Ages – was meant to produce a propagandist image: it attempted to demonstrate that the Byzantine-Orthodox culture could neither serve to unite Slavic peoples nor rejuvenate Europe in any way.

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