Philip Grierson 1910–2006

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Brooke ◽  
Lord Stewartby
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Political ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
At Home

Philip Grierson, historian and numismatist, was for seventy years a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and for over sixty of them he lived in the same set of rooms. His work on the Cambridge Medieval History, culminating in his production of the Shorter History in 1952, brought him an encyclopaedic knowledge of the political structures of medieval Europe. This gave Grierson a much broader historical background than most historians or numismatists can command. He was equally at home in the fifth century and the fifteenth, in western Europe or the Byzantine east.

The roots and manifestations of conflicts in Medieval Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (03) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Sergey Rybakov
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
The Political ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Great Migration ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
The Great Migration ◽  
Mental Space ◽  
Religious Factors ◽  
Western European

The article examines the nature of conflicts in medieval Western Europe. It is noted that the roots of Western European conflicts go back to the time of the Great migration of peoples. Ethno-cultural and Church-religious factors that directly or indirectly influenced the course and nature of conflicts are considered. Projects of secular and ecclesiastical authorities aimed at ousting conflicts from the political and mental space of Western Europe are presented; legal, ethno-cultural, moral and ethical problems that did not allow achieving success in the practical implementation of these projects are identified.

scholarly journals Saint Louis and the Jochids

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 662-674
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Uzelac ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Western World ◽  
The Political ◽  
The West ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Latin Empire ◽  
Louis Ix

Research objectives: To provide an analysis of the relations between the Jochids and the French monarch, Louis IX. Particular attention is dedicated to the channels used by the Tatars to obtain information about the political conditions in Western Europe. Research materials: Contemporary Western sources including the report of the Franciscan traveler, William of Rubruck, and German chronicles in which Berke’s embassy to the French king in 1260 has been recorded. Results and novelty of the study: The Tatar view of Medieval Europe is an insufficiently researched topic. In the decades that followed the Mongol invasion of Central Europe in 1241–1242, the accounts of Western travelers and chroniclers remain the sole material from which glimpses of the Jochid perspective of the Western world may be discerned. Nonetheless, fragmentary sources at our disposal reveal that the Jochids used Western travelers and envoys to learn more about the Christendom. In this way, the image of Louis IX as the leader of the Christian world was firmly entrenched among the Jochids by the early second half of the thirteenth century. It is attested by Berke’s mission sent to Paris in 1260, and also by testimony of William of Rubruck, recorded several years earlier. According to the Flemish Franciscan author, Batu’s son Sartak, who regarded Louis IX to be “the chief ruler among the Franks”, had heard about the French king from an earlier envoy from Constantinople, Baldwin of Hainaut. The report of Rubruck and other sources at our disposal indicate the importance of the rather neglected Jochid relations with the Latin empire of Constantinople as a channel through which the Tatars gathered valuable reports about the political conditions in the West.

Pamphlets Gallicans et Antipapistes (1510-1513): de la «Chasse du Cerf des Cerfs» de Gringore au «Julius Exclusus» d’Erasme

Moreana ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (Number 179- (1-2) ◽  
pp. 123-147
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Margolin
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
At Home

When examining the great number of documents connected with the political constellation of the years 1510-1513, we discover in France two strongly opposite views regarding the personality and policy of Pope Julius II: “conciliarist” and “papalist” theories. These foster a climate of latent war, especially as Louis XII’s policies – both at home and abroad – were unanimously condemned, even by the loyal Bude. Among the pamphlets of that time echoing this double crisis, this article presents French and Gallican poet Pierre Gringore’s satirical work: the Chasse du Cerf des serfs – a play upon the Latin words, servus servorum Dei, as popes called themselves for humility –. This essay also refers to Erasmus’s Latin dialogue (which he never recognized as his own), Julius exclusus a coelis (Julius, expelled from Heaven [by St. Peter]), a dramatic work proving skillfully rhetorical and vengefully ironical against this “warlike pope.”

Saami component in medieval history and toponymy of the Volga-Oka interfluve

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (11-2) ◽  
pp. 82-98
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav Rozhkov
Keyword(s):  
Historical Background ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Moskva River

The article considers the reasons for the difficulties of etymologization ancient ethnic and geographical names of the Volga-Oka interfluve. Shows the historical background and general foundations of a number of ethnonyms, ethnotonyms and toponyms (Saami, Merya, Murom, Chud, Lob river, Ruza river, Moskva River, Moscow, Mozhaisk, Kolomna, etc.). The author presents a set of identical names of the Volga-Oka interfluve and places of established settlement of the Saami. The facts and substantiations presented in the article lead to the conclusion about the existence on the territory of the Volga-Oka interfluve before the appearance of the Slavs of regional toponymy based on the Sami and, possibly, the near Finno-Ugric languages.

Stuart Succession Literature

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
British Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Distinct Category ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Distinguished Group ◽  
Modern British Literature

Moments of royal succession, which punctuated the Stuart era (1603–1714), occasioned outpourings of literature. Writers, including most of the major figures of the seventeenth century from Jonson, Daniel, and Donne to Marvell, Dryden, and Behn, seized upon these occasions to mark the transition of power; to reflect upon the political structures and values of their nation; and to present themselves as authors worthy of patronage and recognition. This volume of essays explores this important category of early modern writing. It contends that succession literature warrants attention as a distinct category: appreciated by contemporaries, acknowledged by a number of scholars, but never investigated in a coherent and methodical manner, it helped to shape political reputations and values across the period. Benefiting from the unique database of such writing generated by the AHRC-funded Stuart Successions Project, the volume brings together a distinguished group of authors to address a subject which is of wide and growing interest to students both of history and of literature. It illuminates the relation between literature and politics in this pivotal century of English political and cultural history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume will be indispensable to scholars of early modern British literature and history as well as undergraduates and postgraduates in both fields.

Kultūrvēstures aspekti Jāņa Čakstes vācu valodā sarakstītajā apcerējumā „Die Letten und Ihre Latwija” (1917), tā tulkošanas un izdevumu vēsture latviski („Latvieši un viņu Latvija”, 1989/1990–2019)

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
Ivars Orehovs
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Aspects ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Public ◽  
30Th Anniversary ◽  
History Of Writing ◽  
History Of

On May 4, 2020, the 30th anniversary of the restoration of Latvia’s national independence was celebrated, and the 160th anniversary since the birth of the first President of Latvia, Jānis Čakste (1859–1927), was remembered on September 14, 2019. In 1917, even before the establishment of the Latvian state, Čakste published a longer essay in German, entitled „The Latvians and Their Latvia” (Die Letten und ihre Latwija), in which both the ethnic and geopolitical history of the Baltics was presented to communicate the public opinion and strivings of that time internationally. The essay also reflected economic relations in the predominantly Latvian-inhabited territory, demonstrating the political convictions and the culture-historical background of the era. The article aims to characterise the history of writing and publishing the essay in German, and its translation into Latvian (1989/90), and the translation’s editions (1999, 2009, 2014, 2019). Part of the article is devoted to analysing the culture-historical aspects, which in the authorial narrative have been expressed in the interethnic environment of the territory and the era.

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