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Frontiers in the Middle Ages -- Medieval Latin metaphors -- Metaphors for religion life in the Middle Ages -- The abstraction of personal qualities in the Middle Ages -- L'idea di innovazione nel XII secolo -- The relation between the sun and the moon in Medieval thought (to 1200) -- The dislocation of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages -- The crow of St Vincent: on the continuity of a hagiographical motif -- The concept of princeps in Gratian's decretum -- Love and do what you will: the Medieval history of an Augustinian precept -- Monastic letter writing in the Middle Ages -- Communications between religious houses in the Middle Ages -- The future of Cluniac studies -- Religious history -- From church history to religion culture: the study of Medieval religion life and spirituality -- Introduction, Medieval scholarship -- The many Middle Ages: Medieval studies in Europe as seen from America.

In the 1980s, as China transitioned to the post-Mao era, a state-sponsored oral history project led to the publication of local, regional, and national histories. They took the form of written and transcribed personal testimonies of events that preceded the turmoil of both the Cultural Revolution and, in many cases, the Communist victory in 1949. Known as wenshi ziliao, these publications represent an intense process of historical memory production that has received little scholarly attention. Hitherto unexamined archival materials and oral histories reveal unresolved tensions in post-Cultural Revolution reconciliation and mobilization, informing negotiations between local elites and the state, and between Party and non-Party organizations. Taking the northeast Russia-Manchuria borderlands as a case study, Martin T. Fromm examines the creation of post-Mao identities, political mobilization, and knowledge production in China.

Relationships between anthrop & history have varied signif'ly with diff anthrop'al trends & Sch's of thought, such as evolutionism, diffusionism, functionalism or structuralism. Over the past decade, the methods of soc anthrop have been applied to the establishment of historiographic data for peoples whose traditional outlook did not include the idea of 'objective' history. Such anthropol'al work is helped by the use of auxiliary techniques & by the development of certain forms of historical consciousness in traditional societies. Yet the anthrop'st must put himself at the service of historiography & cannot take the place of the historian. HA.

"Nation and the Writing of History in China and Britain explores, through a comparative approach, the reception of the nationalist worldview and its effects on the practice of history in China and Britain. This book proposes that nationalism, rather than a political doctrine, is a way of making sense of the world which results from the combination of a set of definite assumptions. The work analyzes how each one of these premises was accepted and negotiated by literati, intellectuals, historians, and other scholars in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The results of this research showcase how the reception of the new nationalist worldview crucially affected images of the past, the present, and the future in both societies and decisively framed cultural, social, and political debate. In addition, they likewise evidence the fundamental role that historical narratives play in the crystallization of national identities. This book is perfect for readers interested in China and Britain during this time period, but also to anyone attracted to new ways of conceiving nationalism and its role in our world"--

National identity in Moldova remains contested despite repeated attempts by governments, historians, and educators to cultivate a shared sense of national belonging through the development of history textbooks. Concern over professional status and distrust of the government's motivations halted these reforms, demonstrating that the success of such efforts greatly depends on teachers' and citizens' social memory and everyday lives. This volume looks at educational reform and the struggle over national identity in the history classroom from the perspectives of five different groups: elected poli

Stafano Guzzini, Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold, London and New York, Routledge, 1998Brian C. Schmidt, The Political Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History of International Relations, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1998The philosopher and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead, cautioned many years ago that 'A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost'. If this injunction is true, then there would appear to be very little hope for the study of international relations. Although there is considerable debate about who constitute the founding fathers – names as different as Thucydides, Grotius and Kant come to mind – without doubt, interest in the seminal thoughts about international relations of such figures has never been higher.

Foreword: ancient historiography and ancient history -- Part I. Introduction -- Why history? On the emergence of historical writing / Mark Munn -- Part II. Persia and Greece -- The political and the divine in Achaemenid royal inscriptions / Eran Almagor -- Cyrus the Great and the sacrifices for a dead king / Josef Wiesehöfer -- The horse and the stag: Philistus' view of tyrants / Frances Pownall -- Part III. Macedon -- Alexander II of Macedon / William Greenwalt -- "The giver of the bride, the bridegroom, and the bride": a study of the death of Philip II and its aftermath / Waldemar Heckel, Timothy Howe and Sabine Müller -- Royal tombs and cult of the dead kings in early Hellenistic Macedonia / Franca Landucci Gattinoni -- Part IV. The empires of Alexander the Great and the Diadochoi -- The financial administration of Asia Minor under Alexander the Great: an interpretation of two passages from Arrian's Anabasis / Maxim M. Kholod -- The eagle has landed: divination in the Alexander historians / Hugh Bowden -- The casualty figures of Alexander's army / Jacek Rzepka -- Alexander's battles against Persians in the art of the successors / Olga Palagia -- How the hoopoe got his crest: reflections on Megasthenes' stories of India / Richard Stoneman -- Creating the king: the image of Alexander the Great in 1 Maccabees, 1:10 / Aleksandra Kleczar -- Part V. Second sophistic Rome -- The hero vs. the tyrant: legitimate and illegitimate rule in the Alexander-Caesar pairing / Rebecca Frank -- Plutarch's Alexander, dionysos and the metaphysics of power / Elias Koulakiotis -- The artistic king: reflections on a topos in second sophistic historiography / Sabine Müller -- Flattery, history, and the .epa.de.mu / Sulochana Asirvatham

A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing, the book analyzes the uses made of India's often millennial past by nationalist ideologues who sought a specific solution to India's predicament on its way to becoming a post-colonial state. From independence to the present, it considers the competing visions of India's liberation from her apocalyptical present to be found in the thinking of Gandhi, V.D. Savarkar, Nehru and B.R. Ambedkar as well as V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie.