Essays to a Degree
Essays to a Degree

Author: David Fuller

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 1326380087

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A compendium of academic essays written by a part-time, distance-learning student in pursuit of an Honours Degree in Theology at the University of Aberdeen, 2002-09

A Companion to the Early Middle Ages
A Companion to the Early Middle Ages

Author: Pauline Stafford

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 1118499476

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Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern national boundaries. A collaborative history from leading scholars, covering the key debates and issues Surveys the building blocks of political society, and considers whether there were fundamental differences across Britain and Ireland Considers potential factors for change, including the economy, Christianisation, and the Vikings

The Myth of 1648
The Myth of 1648

Author: Benno Teschke

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1789605075

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Winner of the 2003 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize This book rejects a commonplace of European history: that the treaties of Westphalia not only closed the Thirty Years' War but also inaugurated a new international order driven by the interaction of territorial sovereign states. Benno Teschke, through this thorough and incisive critique, argues that this is not the case. Domestic 'social property relations' shaped international relations in continental Europe down to 1789 and even beyond. The dynastic monarchies that ruled during this time differed from their medieval predecessors in degree and form of personalization, but not in underlying dynamic. 1648, therefore, is a false caesura in the history of international relations. For real change we must wait until relatively recent times and the development of modern states and true capitalism. In effect, it's not until governments are run impersonally, with no function other than the exercise of its monopoly on violence, that modern international relations are born.

The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 6, C.1300-c.1415
The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 6, C.1300-c.1415

Author: Rosamond McKitterick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 1186

ISBN-13: 9780521362900

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The sixth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the fourteenth century, a period dominated by plague, other natural disasters and war which brought to an end three centuries of economic growth and cultural expansion in Christian Europe, but one which also saw important developments in government, religious and intellectual life, and new cultural and artistic patterns. Part I sets the scene by discussion of general themes in the theory and practice of government, religion, social and economic history, and culture. Part II deals with the individual histories of the states of western Europe; Part III with that of the Church at the time of the Avignon papacy and the Great Schism; and Part IV with eastern and northern Europe, Byzantium and the early Ottomans, giving particular attention to the social and economic relations with westerners and those of other civilisations in the Mediterranean.