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This modernized extract from The Great Chronicle of London covers the reign of Englands first Tudor king, Henry VII (1485-1509). It gives an eye-witness account of events in London, and of news from elsewhere, from the viewpoint of a well-to- do citizen who was closely involved in civic administration. It describes many notable public events: riots and uprisings, executions, coronations, royal marriages and funerals, and ceremonial activities involving the mayor and aldermen. Its year by year entries also cover matters like the weather, the cost of living, taxes, and the effects of building work undertaken in the city. Although its compiler worked to a scheme common to other London chronicles from the period, he was ready to express his own views on a number of matters, and wrote with keen observation and occasional wit.

Music was central to the medieval churchs public worship: it was the essential medium of the Mass and the Divine Office. In this new critical edition, T. J. H. McCarthy presents the Latin text and the first English translation of Aribos musical treatise, De musica and Sententiae. Written between 1070 and 1078, it is concerned with the workings of the liturgical music that Aribo and his contemporaries called Gregorian chant, and builds off of and responds to several contemporary treatises by Abbot Bern of Reichenau and his pupil Herman, Abbot William of Hirsau, Frutolf of Michelsberg, and Theoger of Metz. In the first new edition of the treatise in over sixty years, McCarthy addresses not only new approaches to the study of music history but newly discovered manuscripts of the treatise, paying careful attention to the diagrams that are integral to the coherence of the treatise.

Standing as a summary of Spalingers ideas at the time of the Yale lectures in 2012, this study covers two research sides of modern Egyptological research by a life-long student of ancient Egyptian calendrics and the Egyptian military. The first three chapters cover the development of Richard Parkers seminal study from 1950 and move into the present stage of scholarship. Very important is the authors clarification of what Parker wrote in his paradigmatic work, a slim volume often misunderstood. Hence, the thrust of argument concentrates upon the dating of feasts, the names of the Egyptian months and their metamorphoses, in addition to the retention of lunar-based phenomena. Two final chapters turn to the military aspects of New Kingdom warfare, with emphasis placed upon Seti I and logistical arrangements.

Women on the Land tells the remarkable story of womens contribution to agriculture and forestry during the two World Wars. It traces the formation and history of the Womens Land Army, and shows how women, mostly untrained and from non-farming backgrounds, helped maintain food production for a beleaguered nation, by filling the places of men away at the war. At the height of the First World War the Land Army had a full-time membership of 23,000 members, a number that was to exceed 80,000 during the Second World War. The book pays tribute to women like Lady Denman, who administered the Land Army during the Second World War and who was its chief inspiration and driving force, and also outlines the part played by other womens groups in wartime. Containing many first-hand reminiscences by the women who served, and a number of evocative illustrations, Women on the Land highlights the years when women were effectively to challenge long-established preconceptions as to what properly constituted womens work.

Women on the Land tells the remarkable story of womens contribution to agriculture and forestry during the two World Wars. It traces the formation and history of the Womens Land Army, and shows how women, mostly untrained and from non-farming backgrounds, helped maintain food production for a beleaguered nation, by filling the places of men away at the war. At the height of the First World War the Land Army had a full-time membership of 23,000 members, a number that was to exceed 80,000 during the Second World War. The book pays tribute to women like Lady Denman, who administered the Land Army during the Second World War and who was its chief inspiration and driving force, and also outlines the part played by other womens groups in wartime. Containing many first-hand reminiscences by the women who served, and a number of evocative illustrations, Women on the Land highlights the years when women were effectively to challenge long-established preconceptions as to what properly constituted womens work.

En este libro se analizan la composición, estructura y desarrollo de los espacios curiales, es decir, la Casa y Corte -domus en su acepción latina- de Pablo de Santa María, insigne prelado castellano de la primera mitad del siglo XV. De origen judio, tras su conversion al cristianismo, inicio lo que seria una fructifera trayectoria curial que le llevaria a servir a Benedicto XIII en Aviñon y Peñiscola, a Enrique III y Juan II de Castilla y Fernando I de Aragon. Prelado eminentemente cortesano, don Pablo fue desde muy pronto consciente de la necesidad de contar para el gobierno de su iglesia con una curia de oficiales y servidores cualificados y solventes. Un proyecto institucional que se institucionalizaria plenamente tras su llegada a la sede burgalesa con la composicion de una Casa y Corte altamente operativa y dinamica en la que se ensalzaba el esplendor ceremonial de la dignidad episcopal, la buena marcha relaciones politicas del mitrado y el adecuado gobierno de una diocesis de la relevancia de Burgos.

Navarra ya tuvo en 1525 su primera caza de brujas ochenta años antes de Zugarramurdi (1609-1610). Fue la empresa personal de un oscuro hidalgo, el licenciado Pedro de Balanza, oidor del Consejo Real de Navarra, con mandato obtenido del mismo consejo en nombre del emperador Carlos V. Fue la caza mas notable de toda la historia de España por su importancia cuantitativa, su momento historico, su desenlace y por haber motivado la Junta de Granada sobre las brujas (diciembre de 1526): primera consulta oficial de expertos a la Inquisicion española en materia de brujeria. Por el numero de condenas, confiscaciones y ejecuciones capitales, aquel episodio de 1525, poco conocido, supero con mucho al famoso de Zugarramurdi.Este libro, erudito y bien documentado, arroja luz sobre este episodio, que apenas habia sido objeto de estudio particular. Esta monografia es el segundo tomo de la Coleccion Henningsen, con la que la Universidad Publica de Navarra rinde homenaje a uno de los maximos especialistas a nivel mundial sobre brujeria e Inquisicion, el historiador y antropologo danes Gustav Henningsen, quien dono a la institucion academica su archivo y biblioteca personales.

This book, in a sentence, claims that an ahistorical and ill informed doom and gloom atmosphere in Western public debate threatens to turn into a selffulfilling prophecy; that a new Global Optimism Literature represented by e. g. Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker, based on vast historical sources and social scientific data fortunately intends to correct this misperception; that the also newly emerged sub-discipline of Global History in spite of severe birth diseases could contribute substantially to this mission; and when it all comes down to it: do we have a choice anyway?

Jacques Tatis Monsieur Hulot, unverkennbar mit seiner Pfeife, seinem Regenschirm und seinen gestreiften Socken, war eine geniale Slapstick-Kreation, die das Publikum auf der ganzen Welt uber die Absurditat des Lebens lachen lie. David Bellos Biografie zeichnet Tatis Aufstieg und Fall nach, von seinen Anfangen als Variete-Mime wahrend der Depression uber den Erfolg von Jour de Fete und Mon Oncle bis hin zu Playtime, dem grandiosen Meisterwerk, das den gefeierten Regisseur und Oscar-Preistrager in den Bankrott trieb und ihn um finanzielle Unterstutzung fur die Fertigstellung seiner letzten Filme betteln lie.Bei der Analyse von Tatis einzigartiger Vision, eines Clowns, dessen filmische Innovation darin bestand, das alltagliche Leben in eine Kunstform zu verwandeln, enthullt Bellos die komplizierte Inszenierung seiner beruhmtesten Gags und stutzt sich auf bisher unzugangliche Archive, darunter Filmmaterial, Videos, aufgezeichnete Interviews und fruhe Entwurfe von Drehbuchern, sowie die Mithilfe von Tatis Tochter. Herausgekommen ist das Bild eines Mannes, der gleichzeitig engagiert, leidenschaftlich und schuchtern war, mehr Kunstler als Geschaftsmann. In der genau recherchierten Darstellung wird Tati sehr lebendig und bleibt, wie auf der Leinwand, seltsam liebenswert.

Kun kirjeenvaihto alkaa, eletaan toukokuun loppua 1940. Talvisodasta on kaksi kuukautta ja suursota Euroopassa laajenee. Saksan armeijan joukot etenevat kohti Pariisia. Viimeinen kirje on paivatty 31. tammikuuta 1943 - samana paivana jona Saksan 6. armeija antautuu Stalingradissa. Suursota on tullut kaannnekohtaan ja Saksan vetaytyminen itarintamalla alkaa.Eva Tudeer on 25-vuotias musiikinopiskelija, jonka opinnot talvisota on keskeyttanyt. Jatkosota vie Evan Vaasenin kylaan Syvarille. Miehitetyssa Ita-Karjalassa han kohtaa sodan todellisuuden ja tulevan elamankumppaninsa. Lauri O. Th. Tudeerin ja Maija kerman-Tudeerin kirjeet tyttarelle heijastavat niiden suomalaisten sivistyneistopiirien tuntoja, jotka suhtautuvat kriittisesti kansallissosialismiin ja Hitlerin Saksaan samoin kuin ajatukseen Suur-Suomesta. Isa kirjoittaa Evalle myos tyostaan Helsingin yliopiston kirjastossa. "Onko tama karhun taljan kasittelya ennen sen nylkemista?" isa kysyy, kun kirjastoon alkaa saapua vaunulasteittain sotasaaliskirjoja idasta.

In 614 CE, the armies of Sasanid Persia shocked the Eastern Roman Empire when they besieged and captured Jerusalem, taking a large swath of its population into captivity along with the citys patriarch and the famed relic of the True Cross. This astounding Persian victory over Christian Jerusalem was a key episode in the last war between Rome and Persia in 602-628 CE and occurred at the high tide of Persian advances into the Roman territories in Asia Minor, the Levant, and Egypt. Among those taken captive was a certain Strategius, a monk of Mar Saba, who subsequently took it upon himself to compose a homily recounting the events leading up to the Persian siege of the Holy City and its aftermath. Strategius presents his pious and harrowing account as that of an eyewitness to many of the events he recounts. For events he did not himself witness, he purports to rely on contemporary informants who did, making his treatise a source with few parallels in late antiquity. Although Strategiuss original account in Greek is lost, it survives via later translations into Georgian and Christian Arabic, two languages that attained prominence in the monasteries of Palestine during the Islamic period. This volume provides, for the first time, a complete side-by-side English translation of both the Georgian and the Arabic recensions.

This volume explores the will-making process in late medieval England for all levels of society. Wills are some of the most studied records of the late Middle Ages and capture the evidence of what people owned and the patterns of family relationships. These documents, compiled from several archives and city records, cast a light on many aspects of medieval life, including gender distinctions and the heavy influence of the church. Included are wills from widows, tradespeople and artisans, clergy, and high-ranking wealthy people, and through these sources he shows how wills, inventories, and testaments prepared people and their souls for the afterlife.

This volume presents a series of papers delivered at a two-day session of the Theban Workshop held at the British Museum in September 2003. Due to its political and religious prominence throughout much of pharaonic history, the region of ancient Thebes offers scholars a wealth of monuments whose physical remains and extant iconography may be combined with textual sources and archaeological finds in ways that elucidate the function of sacred space as initially conceived, and which also reveal adaptations to human need or shifts in cultural perception. The contributions herein address issues such as the architectural framing of religious ceremony, the implicit performative responses of officiants, the diachronic study of specific rites, the adaptation of sacred space to different uses through physical, representational, or textual alteration, and the development of ritual landscapes in ancient Thebes.

Explore the early days of Paleoindian archaeology in this engaging retrospective of Edgar B. Howards Southwest Early Man Project, 1929-1937, cosponsored by the University Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. This book contains a detailed analysis of the world-famous Clovis artifacts, discovered among the bones of mammoths and extinct bison in the Dust Bowl of eastern New Mexico. Blending traditional and current ideas, the authors offer an extended reference to the lifeways of early humans in the Americas, accented by a series of unique insights on their origins and adaptations. Well appointed with photos, line illustrations, and schematics, Clovis Revisited is essential reading for professionals, students, and avocational enthusiasts.

Cities are the largest "artifacts" investigated by archaeologists--entities that have been under academic scrutiny for a long time. Urban places are both physical and social agglomerations, fostering the most intense interaction of any human settlement. Archaeological evidence illustrates how ancient cities worldwide were similar in origin, development, and maturation, showing considerable isomorphism with modern cities. This book explores issues of definition and the essential elements of cities, offers a new heuristic typology of cities, and reviews case studies of six ancient cities (Copan, Great Zimbabwe, Gyeongju, Hierakonpolis, Rome, and Teotihuacan) with illustrative exercises at the end of each chapter. Cities have been characterized as "social reactors" working much like a star in creating an explosive increase in human connectivity. Urban planning, both ancient and modern, helps us understand the essence of this--the most exciting and vibrant product of the human tendency to nucleate.

Archaeological analysis at the regional scale investigates the past by studying how people distributed themselves and their activities across a landscape of hundreds or thousands of square kilometers. Archaeological field survey methods developed over half a century combine with powerful new quantitative tools for spatial analysis (including GIS) to unleash new potential for identifying and studying ancient local communities and regional polities. Varied approaches to estimating regional population sizes in both relative and absolute terms are synthesized and their advantages and disadvantages assessed. Tools for quantitative analysis of regional demographic data are presented. Field survey methods developed around the world are compiled from widely scattered sources and best practices for collecting archaeological data to sustain demographic analysis are delineated. Concepts for improved sampling design in regional survey work are derived from fundamental statistical principles. In conclusion, promising directions for future methodological development are identified.

Este libro es el resultado de muchos viajes y miles de horas de ilusionados paseos por el campo en busca de mis codiciados dólmenes. Como veréis en seguida, son muy pocas las alusiones a sus caracteristicas tecnicas, a los metodos de construccion o las circunstancias historicas de sus constructores. Incluso pasamos de puntillas sobre el misterio de su finalidad, mas alla de la obvia constatacion de que alli eran enterradas personas queridas con sus ajuares funerarios. Todo ello lo encontraremos con facilidad y mayor solvencia en las redes o en manuales especializados. Lo que pretende este libro es algo mucho mas modesto: cuantos hay, donde estan y como se llega hasta ellos. En definitiva, este es el libro que mas o menos me hubiera gustado encontrar cuando hace unos cuarenta años me lance a esta apasionada y un poco loca busqueda de megalitos y no encontre ningun libro, documento o tratado general que informara de ellos de un modo global. Y esto aun es lo que sigue sucediendo hoy dia. No creo que tengamos en ninguna libreria un compendio general de los dolmenes de España, siquiera a un nivel tan sencillo como el que este libro os propone; donde estan y como llegamos hasta ellos. Tratados especificos si los hay, muy buenos y bien documentados, que podemos encontrar incluso en las oficinas de turismo de muchas localidades, pero siempre circunscritos a ambitos concretos, de comunidad autonoma o de caracter local. Asi que, en tanto llegue ese compendio general, este libro pretende hacer las veces.

This is a unique and engaging book on prehistoric stone tools. It advocates an experiential approach in which analysts try to understand stone tool designs from the users perspectives, and employs a universal logic of designing tools to solve practical problems and evaluating various possible solutions. However, to do so it is also necessary to understand how stone can be mechanically modified to serve specific functions. The author enlists a rich array of ethnographic observations and considerable background as a flintknapper to show the basic ways in which stones can be flaked and modified and what these characteristics can reveal about prehistoric problem-solving strategies and design constraints. This is an invaluable primer for anyone contemplating the study of prehistoric stone tools."

Cities are the largest "artifacts" investigated by archaeologists--entities that have been under academic scrutiny for a long time. Urban places are both physical and social agglomerations, fostering the most intense interaction of any human settlement. Archaeological evidence illustrates how ancient cities worldwide were similar in origin, development, and maturation, showing considerable isomorphism with modern cities. This book explores issues of definition and the essential elements of cities, offers a new heuristic typology of cities, and reviews case studies of six ancient cities (Copan, Great Zimbabwe, Gyeongju, Hierakonpolis, Rome, and Teotihuacan) with illustrative exercises at the end of each chapter. Cities have been characterized as "social reactors" working much like a star in creating an explosive increase in human connectivity. Urban planning, both ancient and modern, helps us understand the essence of this--the most exciting and vibrant product of the human tendency to nucleate.

The nation-state is here to stay. Thirty years ago it was fashionable to predict its imminent demise, but the sudden break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s unshackled long-repressed nationalisms and generated a host of new states. The closer integration of the European Union has given intra-national nationalisms a new lease of life, confirming the viability of small nation-states under a supra-national umbrella - after all, if Ireland and Iceland, then why not Scotland and Catalonia? And then the world stage has seen new and powerful national players moving from the wings to the centre: China, India, and Brazil are full of a sense of growing into their own national destinies and are in no mood either to dissolve into, or to defer to, some larger body.Nations, nationalisms, and nation-states are persistent facts, but what should we think of them morally? Surely humanity, not a nation, should claim our loyalty? How can it be right to exclude foreigners by policing borders? Can a liberal nation-state thrive without a cohering public orthodoxy? Does national sovereignty confer immunity? Is national separatism always justified? These are urgent questions. Between Kin and Cosmopolis offers timely Christian answers.