Charlemagne and Europe

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinty Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
War Rhetoric ◽  
Post War ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Political Figure ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Middle Ages

The paper begins by asking what Europe has meant to medieval historians in recent times, focusing on some answers given in the 1990s and around the year 2000, and reflecting on the different ways Charlemagne is being commemorated in different parts of Europe now, 1,200 years after his death. Charlemagne is then examined through evidence from his own time, as a ruler of a recognisably European empire, and, in the light of recent research and new approaches, His record as a political figure is reconsidered. A brief survey of his posthumous reputation as man and myth in the middle ages, and after, leads into a closer look at the roles assigned to him in post-war rhetoric. Finally the question of whether Charlemagne has, or might have, anything to offer Europeans today is examined.

scholarly journals Reading, writing, making errors: Middle Ages and (ultra)modern world

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milka Radulović ◽  
◽  
Jelena Slavković ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The Middle Ages

For the Middle Ages reading and writing can refer to making copies of books too, and consequently, to variant errors in them. Nowadays, when typing on PC excerpt or transcription of manuscript, we make the same kinds of mistakes, being still at scribe’s type of copying and citing. We can avoid mistakes by using HTR programs for starting SDE-s and using them to copy-paste the part of text we need.With new approaches, close to „old“ Likhachov’s textology, and with digital born editions this field is getting reshaped.

The Marais

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Reader
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Andre Malraux ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

This book explores the history and the vicissitudes of one of Paris’s most extraordinary areas, the Marais. Centrally located on the Right Bank, this neighbourhood was from the Middle Ages through to the eighteenth century the most fashionable in the city, headquarters of the nobility who endowed it with resplendent architecture. The Court’s move to Versailles and the Revolution of 1789 led to the quartier’s decline, so that in the nineteenth century and the earlier part of the twentieth it was in parlous shape, its fine buildings run down and often severely overcrowded. It escaped wholesale destruction in the post-War frenzy of modernization largely thanks to André Malraux, who as Culture Minister fostered the restoration of the area. Malraux’s efforts were, however, not immune from criticism, sometimes seen as a form of socio-economic cleansing with concomitant fossilization, and thus emblematic of the problems faced by a city which has always been torn between the preservation of its past and the need to adapt to social and historical change. The book focuses particularly on literary, cinematic and other artistic reproductions of the quartier, of which it attempts to provide a comprehensive overview, and foregrounds particularly its importance as home to and base of two highly significant minorities – the Jewish and the gay communities.

A New Europe: Erasing the Destruction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kriston R. Rennie
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Religious Rhetoric ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Binding Agent ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Synthetic Vision ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Middle Ages

Monte Cassino became a fitting symbol for post-war recovery efforts. Its lived experiences account for the abbey’s role in the second half of the twentieth century as the binding agent and promoter for a unified Europe. This chapter makes sense of this unique designation by examining the way(s) in which the abbey’s fractured past has been harnessed into this synthetic vision. It asks how Monte Cassino’s ‘destruction tradition’ – that evolving narrative and shared reality from the Middle Ages to the present day – served as an instrument for promoting the abbey’s faith and prosperity well into the twentieth century. It shows how the abbey’s cumulative experiences with death and resurrection were transformed into a secular and religious rhetoric of hope, unity, and essential European identity.

scholarly journals pH of streams in western Finland - a perspective from the Middle Ages into the mid 21st century

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. ÅSTRÖM ◽  
R. SUNDSTRÖM ◽  
M. HOLMBERG
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Subsurface Drainage ◽  
Hydrogeochemical Processes ◽  
Acid Sulphate ◽  
Acid Sulphate Soils ◽  
Post War ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Middle Ages

In the central parts of western Finland, many streams are severely acidified as a result of land-use activities on overburden (soils) capable of producing and ultimately releasing extreme acidity. Consequently, the extent of the acidification problem is likely to have varied over time in response to the type and extent of contemporary land use. In this study, we have combined historical information on land use and knowledge on hydrogeochemical processes in order to assess the pH declines that are likely to have occurred in streams in this area since the Middle Ages. The results show that among several potentially acidifying activities, reclamation of mires for farmland (19th and 20th centuries) and subsurface drainage of acid sulphate soils (post-war times) are the major causes of the pH decline. Recent methods developed to combat the acidification and possible future changes in pH are discussed.;

On the Need for a New Edition of Walter of Henley

1934 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 101-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Power
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Agricultural Practice ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cattle Farming ◽  
Estate Management ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Middle Ages

The history of agricultural technique in the Middle Ages is a subject of obvious importance and interest, but in England, at least, it has never been systematically studied. It is true that the main outline of agricultural practice has been made familiar, as a result of the study of manorial documents, but there has been little attempt to investigate technical questions in detail, or to distinguish between the practice of different parts of the country. One branch of agrarian economy, sheep and cattle farming, has been almost entirely neglected, in spite of the fact that wool and hides were the staple export of England. Nor is it only the technique of farming which awaits investigation; the whole subject of estate management in the Middle Ages is almost untouched. Historians have in the main been content to study manorial organisation and those problems of tenure and of labour which can be observed in a manorial framework; it is the legal rather than the economic side of agrarian history which has chiefly interested them.

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