scholarly journals Narrativas nacionales y pensamiento histórico en los libros de texto de Educación Secundaria de España y Francia. Análisis a partir del tratamiento de los contenidos de la Edad ModernaNational narratives and historical thinking in secondary education textbooks in Spain and France. An analysis based on contents related to the Early Modern period

2017 ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
Cosme J. Gómez Carrasco ◽  
Sebastián Molina Puche
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
Education History ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The One

El objetivo principal de este trabajo es indagar en las narrativas históricas y en lascompetencias desarrolladas en los libros de texto de Historia en Educación Secundaria, comparando los contenidos y el pensamiento histórico propuesto por los manuales escolares franceses y españoles sobre la Edad Moderna. Se ha realizado un estudio exploratorio con un tema transversal: las unidades didácticas de la Edad Moderna en 2º de ESO en España y 4º de Collège en Francia. Este estudio ha analizado de una forma comparativa tanto los contenidos sustantivos que presentan los manuales (qué conocimientos históricos se proponen en estos materiales educativos), como los contenidos estratégicos (cómo se presentan esos conocimientos y qué tipo de habilidades cognitivas se le exige al alumnado). Los datos muestran resultados dispares. Por un lado la nación (su origen y consolidación) sigue siendo el principal sujeto histórico en los manuales. Pero existe una gran diferencia en las competencias históricas propuestas al alumnado en España (con un aprendizaje más memorístico) y en Francia (con un análisis más profundo de las fuentes históricas).PALABRAS CLAVE: enseñanza de la historia, narrativa nacional, libros de texto,pensamiento histórico, competencias educativas.ABSTRACTThe main objective of this paper is to look into the historical narratives and the competencies developed in secondary education history textbooks by comparing thecontents and historical thinking on the Early Modern period proposed by French and Spanish textbooks. We carried out an exploratory study with a cross-cutting topic: the teaching units on the Early Modern period in the 2nd year of ESO in Spain and 4th year of Collège in France. This study comparatively analyzed both the substantive contents presented in textbooks (the historical knowledge presented in these educational materials), and the strategic contents (the way this knowledge is presented, and the kind of cognitive skills required by students). The data shows mixed results. On the one hand the concept of nation (its origin and consolidation) remains the main historical subject in textbooks. But there is a major difference in terms of the historical skills proposed for students in Spain (rote learning) and France (a deeper analysis of historical sources).KEY WORDS: history education, national narrative, textbooks, historical thinking,educational skills.

The Puritan Work Ethic Revisited

1980 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Seaver
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
The One ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior ◽  
The Impact

Whether Puritanism gave rise to a “work ethic,” and, if so, what the nature of that ethic was, has been a source of controversy since Max Weber published The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism more than seventy years ago. Experienced polemicists have waged international wars of words over its terms, and tyros have won their spurs in the battle. With repect to England, there is at present no agreement either about the reality of a peculiarly Puritan work ethic or about the impact, if any, that such an ethic might have had on the attitudes and behavior of the emerging capitalist bourgeoisie, if such a species indeed existed as a distinctive social class or group in the early modern period. In fact, since perfectly sane and competent historians have questioned on the one hand, whether “Puritanism” is more than a neo-idealist reification of a nonentity, and on the other, whether the early modern middle class is more than a myth, it might be the better part of wisdom to inter the remains of these vexed questions as quietly as possible. What follows is not a perverse attempt to flog a dead horse, if it is dead and a horse, but rather on the basis of a different perspective and different evidence to resurrect a part of what Timothy Breen has called “the non-existent controversy.”

scholarly journals Back from Shingly: Revisiting the premodern history of Jews in Kerala

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ophira Gamliel
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

Jewish history in Kerala is based on sources mainly from the colonial period onward and mostly in European languages, failing to account for the premodern history of Jews in Kerala. These early modern sources are based on oral traditions of Paradeśi Jews in Cochin, who view the majority of Kerala Jews as inferior. Consequently, the premodern history of Kerala Jews remains untold, despite the existence of premodern sources that undermine unsupported notions about the premodern history of Kerala Jews—a Jewish ‘ur-settlement’ called Shingly in Kodungallur and a centuries-old isolation from world Jewry. This article reconstructs Jewish history in premodern Kerala solely based on premodern travelogues and literature on the one hand and on historical documents in Old Malayalam, Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic on the other hand. Sources of the early modern period are then examined for tracing the origins of the Shingly myth, arguing that the incorporation of the Shingly legend into the historiography of Kerala Jews was affected by contacts with European Jews in the Age of Discoveries rather than being a reflection of historical events.

scholarly journals Evolution and transformation of early modern cosmological knowledge: a network study

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Zamani ◽  
Alejandro Tejedor ◽  
Malte Vogl ◽  
Florian Kräutli ◽  
Matteo Valleriani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Multiplex Network ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
Almost All

AbstractWe investigated the evolution and transformation of scientific knowledge in the early modern period, analyzing more than 350 different editions of textbooks used for teaching astronomy in European universities from the late fifteenth century to mid-seventeenth century. These historical sources constitute the Sphaera Corpus. By examining different semantic relations among individual parts of each edition on record, we built a multiplex network consisting of six layers, as well as the aggregated network built from the superposition of all the layers. The network analysis reveals the emergence of five different communities. The contribution of each layer in shaping the communities and the properties of each community are studied. The most influential books in the corpus are found by calculating the average age of all the out-going and in-coming links for each book. A small group of editions is identified as a transmitter of knowledge as they bridge past knowledge to the future through a long temporal interval. Our analysis, moreover, identifies the most impactful editions. These books introduce new knowledge that is then adopted by almost all the books published afterwards until the end of the whole period of study. The historical research on the content of the identified books, as an empirical test, finally corroborates the results of all our analyses.

scholarly journals Pećnjaci iz drvenog objekta podignutoga na ruševinama srednjovjekovnoga burga Vrbovca kod Huma na Sutli

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Tkalčec
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Foundation Pit ◽  
Wooden Structure ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Excellent Source

Archaeological excavations have been carried out over a series of years in the northwestern-most part of the Hrvatsko zagorje region, at Hum na Sutli, at a castle whose medieval name was Vrbovec. Burg was mentioned in rare historical sources in the period from the second half of the 13th century to the second half of the 15th century. The excavations have resulted in data about its earlier beginnings, as well as its lengthier continuation, in fact a subsequent utilization if the medieval position in the early modern period, i.e. in the 16th century. The remains of a wooden structure, probably a tower destroyed by fire, were found at the site, built on the ruins of the medieval castle (Fig. 1). On the basis of the width of the foundation pit for this wooden structure, it can be concluded that this was a building constructed of massive wooden beams or the structure had several levels. The remains of a demolished tile stove were also found. The stove was covered with three types of tiles – tiles with a solid front decorative panel depicting a hunting scene (Fig. 2, Pl. 1/1), tiles with a perforated front panel decorated with architectural motifs (Fig. 3, Pl. 1/2), and simple bowl-shaped ties with a square opening (Fig. 4, Pl. 1/3). The first type of tile represents a copy of the kind of tiles that were found at the Celje castle, where they were dated to the last quarter of the 15th century and the transition from the 15th to the 16th centuries. On the basis of the stratigraphy of the finds, the typology of the stove tiles, and radiocarbon analyses, the tile stove from Vrbovec is dated to the second half of the 16th century. Although there is no specific mention of this in the historical sources, the early modern period horizon of the ruins at the medieval castle of Vrbovec should be tied to the aristocratic Rattkay family. The burg Vrbovec at Klenovec Humski with this discovery has become not merely an archaeological source for the medieval period, but also an excellent source for investigating the early modern period.

scholarly journals The Athos Bulgarian history writing of the 18th century between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Dmitriy Polyvyannyy
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
History Writing ◽  
National History ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bulgarian Population ◽  
The One

The article is dedicated to three Bulgarian historical works created at Athos in the second half of the 18th c. – "Slavo-Bulgarian History" by Saint Paisius of Hilendar, anonymous "Zograf History" and "Brief History of the Bulgarian Slav People" by monk-priest Spyridon of Gabrovo. By the author’s opinion, these works, on the one hand, were born in the atmosphere of rivalry between the monasteries of Athos and their Greek, Bulgarian and Serbian clergy, and on the other, were actualised by the strengthening contacts of Hilandar and Zograf with Bulgarian lands. If the first affected the contents of the mentioned works, the second lead to sufficient enlargement of their audience, which, in its turn, became a precondition of the growing interest to the national history among the Bulgarian population of Rumelia in the first half of the 19th c.

scholarly journals Reconstructing “Religion” from the Bottom Up

Numen ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 576-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Original Function ◽  
First Line ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The One ◽  
Tertium Comparationis

This article claims to uncover the core problematics that have made the debate on defining and conceptualizing “religion” so difficult and argues that this makes it possible to move beyond radical deconstruction towardsreconstructing the concept for scholarly purposes. The argument has four main steps. Step 1 consists of establishing the nature of the entity “religion” as areified imaginative formation. Step 2 consists of identifyingthe basic dilemmawith which scholars have been struggling: the fact that, on the one hand, definitions and conceptualizations do not seem to work unless they stay sufficiently close to commonly held prototypes, while yet, on the other hand, those prototypes are grounded in monotheistic, more specifically Christian, even more specifically Protestant, theological biases about “true” religion. The first line of argument leads to crypto-theological definitions and conceptualizations, the second to a radical deconstruction of the very concept of “religion.” Step 3 resolves the dilemma by identifying anunexamined assumption, orproblematic“blind spot,” that the two lines of argument have in common: they both think that “religion” stands against “the secular.” However, the historical record shows that these two defined themselves not just against one another but, simultaneously, against athirddomain (referred to by such terms as “magic” or “superstition”). The structure is therefore not dualistic but triadic. Step 4 consists of replacing common assumptions about how “religion” emerged in the early modern period by an interpretation that explains not just its emergence but its logicalnecessity, at that time, for dealing with the crisis of comparison caused by colonialist expansion. “Religion” emerged as thetertium comparationis— or, in technically more precise language, the “pre-comparativetertium” — that enabled comparison between familiar (monotheist, Christian, Protestant) forms of belief and modes of worship and unfamiliar ones (associated with “pagan” superstition or magic). If we restore the term to its original function, this allows us to reconstruct “religion” as a scholarly concept that not just avoids butpreventsany slippage back to Christian theology or ethnocentric bias.

Between systematization and rationalization

2020 ◽  
pp. 204-216
Author(s):  
Raf Van Rooy
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Regional Variation ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The One ◽  
First Time

Chapter 16 discusses further evidence for the systematization and rationalization of the language / dialect distinction in the period 1650–1800, the age of rationalism and the Enlightenment. On the one hand, a kind of dialectological tradition emerged. The study of regional variation became a subfield of philology, albeit never an autonomous one; occasionally, it even now received the label of dialectologia, apparently introduced in 1650. For the first time, philologists presented dissertations on dialectal diversity that were no longer exclusively focused on the Greek dialects. On the other hand, scholars adopted more rational attitudes towards the conceptual pair. Some chose to supplement the binary contrast with new concepts. Others advocated distinguishing more clearly between different interpretations of the language / dialect distinction. Confusion persisted, however, throughout the early modern period. The first vocal sceptic of the conceptual pair was Friedrich Carl Fulda, who made it painfully clear how arbitrary and imprecise the distinction actually was.

Above and Below the Surface

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Ingvarsson Sundström ◽  
Jan Mispelaere ◽  
Ylva Bäckström
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Mining Community ◽  
Silver Mine ◽  
Children’S Work

This chapter addresses children’s lives and living conditions during the early modern period in Sweden. A case study on the population at one of Sweden’s most important historical mines, the Sala Silver mine forms the basis for a discussion about children’s work, their diets, and how gender roles and social status may have affected their health. Two sources provide complementing and sometimes contradicting information about how children’s lives were shaped: the bioarchaeological material (skeletons and graves) and historical sources (archival material). The historical sources show that children were important economic actors in the mining community, and the bioarchaeological material indicates that their health was affected by the socioeconomic status of their families, as well as the unsanitary living and working conditions at the site.

“In loco qui dicitur Galca”. New Observations and Hypotheses on the Norman Palace in Palermo

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruggero Longo
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Intensive Study ◽  
Original Function ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
Royal Palace ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

AbstractThis paper presents the results of an intensive study of both historical sources and literature concerning the Royal Palace in Palermo. The study of this architectural palimpsest deals with the intrinsic difficulty in distinguishing continuity and discontinuity across a stratified overlap of medieval phases, here defined as a mimetic phase of transition. The paper aims to trace the development of the building from the Norman conquest to the establishment of the kingdom, also taking into account a possible pre-Norman phase and the transformations which occurred in the Early Modern period. Issues concerning the construction of the first Palatine Chapel are also addressed, which leads to the individuation of hidden layers of the Palace. The final part of the paper focuses on one of the most important Norman portions of the Palace: the Torre Pisana. The analysis of its medieval structure reveals its Islamic features and opens new hypotheses on its original function and configuration.

scholarly journals Introduction: Cross-Confessional Diplomacy and Diplomatic Intermediaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 93-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maartje van Gelder ◽  
Tijana Krstić
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Diplomatic History ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Mediterranean History ◽  
The One

This special issue, an exercise in integrated Mediterranean history through the lens of diplomacy, demonstrates that diplomatic genres and practices associated with a European political and cultural tradition, on the one hand, or an Islamic tradition, on the other, were not produced in isolation but attained meaning through the process of mediation and negotiation among intermediaries of different confessional and social backgrounds. Building on the “new diplomatic history,” the essays focus on non-elite (e.g. Christian slaves, renegades, Jewish doctors, Moriscos) and less commonly studied (mid- and high-ranking Muslim officials) intermediaries in Mediterranean cross-confessional diplomacy. The issue argues that the early modern period witnessed a relative balance of power among Muslim- and Christian-ruled polities: negotiations entailed not only principles of reciprocity, parity, and commensurability, but these were actually enforceable in practice. This challenges the notion of European diplomatic supremacy, prompting scholars to fundamentally rethink the narrative about the origins of early modern diplomacy.

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