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

Author(s):  
Carin Martiin ◽  
José Luis Martínez-González ◽  
Guillermo García-Contreras Ruiz ◽  
Miguel Cabo Villaverde ◽  
Javier Esparcia ◽  
...  

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

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 662-663

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.”


1937 ◽  
Vol 15 (43) ◽  
pp. 35-39

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


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton

Author(s):  
Jack Tannous

In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. This book argues that key to understanding these dramatic religious transformations are ordinary religious believers, often called “the simple” in late antique and medieval sources. Largely agrarian and illiterate, these Christians outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East's history. What did it mean for Christian communities to break apart over theological disagreements that most people could not understand? How does our view of the rise of Islam change if we take seriously the fact that Muslims remained a demographic minority for much of the Middle Ages? In addressing these and other questions, the book provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the religious history of the medieval Middle East. The book draws on a wealth of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources to recast these conquered lands as largely Christian ones whose growing Muslim populations are properly understood as converting away from and in competition with the non-Muslim communities around them.


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
D.X. Sangirova ◽  

Revered since ancient times, the concept of "sacred place" in the middle ages rose to a new level. The article analyzes one of the important issues of this time - Hajj (pilgriamge associated with visiting Mecca and its surroundings at a certain time), which is one of pillars of Islam and history of rulers who went on pilgrimage


2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-446
Author(s):  
Sylvain Roudaut

Abstract This paper offers an overview of the history of the axiom forma dat esse, which was commonly quoted during the Middle Ages to describe formal causality. The first part of the paper studies the origin of this principle, and recalls how the ambiguity of Boethius’s first formulation of it in the De Trinitate was variously interpreted by the members of the School of Chartres. Then, the paper examines the various declensions of the axiom that existed in the late Middle Ages, and shows how its evolution significantly follows the progressive decline of the Aristotelian model of formal causality.


1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-421
Author(s):  
Ghulam-Haider Aasi

History of Religions in the WestA universal, comparative history of the study of religions is still far frombeing written. Indeed, such a history is even hr from being conceived, becauseits components among the legacies of non-Western scholars have hardly beendiscovered. One such component, perhaps the most significant one, is thecontributions made by Muslim scholars during the Middle Ages to thisdiscipline. What is generally known and what has been documented in thisfield consists entirely of the contribution of Westdm scholars of religion.Even these Western scholars belong to the post-Enlightenment era of Wsternhistory.There is little work dealing with the history of religions which does notclaim the middle of the nineteenth century CE as the beginning of thisdiscipline. This may not be due only to the zeitgeist of the modem Wstthat entails aversion, downgrading, and undermining of everything stemmingfrom the Middie Ages; its justification may also be found in the intellectualpoverty of the Christian West (Muslim Spain excluded) that spans that historicalperiod.Although most works dealing with this field include some incidentalreferences, paragraphs, pages, or short chapters on the contribution of thepast, according to each author’s estimation, all of these studies are categorizedunder one of the two approaches to religion: philosophical or cubic. All ofthe reflective, speculative, philosophical, psychological, historical, andethnological theories of the Greeks about the nature of the gods and goddessesand their origins, about the nature of humanity’s religion, its mison dsttre,and its function in society are described as philosophical quests for truth.It is maintained that the Greeks’ contribution to the study of religion showedtheir openness of mind and their curiosity about other religions and cultures ...


Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-254
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen

Throughout times, magic and magicians have exerted a tremendous influence, and this even in our (post)modern world (see now the contributions to Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time, ed. Albrecht Classen, 2017; here not mentioned). Allegra Iafrate here presents a fourth monograph dedicated to magical objects, primarily those associated with the biblical King Solomon, especially the ring, the bottle which holds a demon, knots, and the flying carpet. She is especially interested in the reception history of those symbolic objects, both in antiquity and in the Middle Ages, both in western and in eastern culture, that is, above all, in the Arabic world, and also pursues the afterlife of those objects in the early modern age. Iafrate pursues not only the actual history of King Solomon and those religious objects associated with him, but the metaphorical objects as they made their presence felt throughout time, and this especially in literary texts and in art-historical objects.


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