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New Medieval Books: 10 Open Access Books in Medieval Studies
Authors and publishers are increasingly making new books available in Open Access. This include the field of medieval studies and here are 10 books published in 2019 and 2020 which you can freely download and read right now. Making the Medieval Relevant: How Medieval Studies Contribute to Improving our Understanding of the Present Edited by Chris Jones, Conor Kostick and Klaus Oschema De Gruyter When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. Click here to read this book Medieval Londoners: Essays to mark the eightieth birthday of Caroline M. Edited by Elizabeth A. University of London Press Medieval Londoners were a diverse group, some born in the city, and others drawn to the capital from across the realm and from overseas. Click here to read this book (Re)writing History in Byzantium: A Critical Study of Collections of Historical Excerpts Routledge
Lives of Saints: The Medieval French Hagiography Project
aints' Lives (known collectively as "hagiography") are stories about people been who have canonized by the Catholic Church. The "Lives of the Saints" Project will focus on those Lives that were written in French (including Anglo-Norman but not Occitan), in verse or prose or both between c. 880 and c. 1500 of the Christian era. When complete, the project will consist of two major components: an interactive database containing extensive textual, historical and material information about these works and their manuscript contexts, and a collection of hypertext editions and translations of Lives with images of their manuscripts. Rationale Vernacular hagiography was arguably one of the most widely enjoyed and influential genres of the French Middle Ages, and yet, despite some increased interest, it has not gained a corresponding degree of recognition among modern scholars. pleasing. Project Aims Current Status February 2008. Suggestions For Using This Site There are two types of Searches.
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Historical Texts Collection : History Department : Hanover College
The Hanover Historical Texts Collection makes available digital versions of historical texts for use in history and humanities courses. Search by keyword, or browse by subject heading. The faculty and students of the Hanover College History Department initiated the Hanover Historical Texts Project in 1995, at a time when few primary sources were available outside of published anthologies. To make primary texts readily available for classroom use, they selected important documents, scanned print versions that were out of copyright, converted the scans into HTML format, proofread the resulting documents to correct OCR errors, edited them to provide page breaks, page numbers, and bibliographical information, and posted them online. We have since expanded the collection to include transcriptions of manuscript material from the Hanover College archives. Most of the texts in the Hanover Historical Texts Collection are in public domain. Ancient Greece and Rome Medieval Europe Early Modern Europe
Does God Exist - Six Reasons to Believe that God is Really There - Existence of God - Proof of God
PDFListen to article By Marilyn Adamson Just once wouldn't you love for someone to simply show you the evidence for God's existence? No arm-twisting. No statements of, "You just have to believe." But first consider this. Many examples showing God's design could be given, possibly with no end. The Earth...its size is perfect. The Earth is located the right distance from the sun. And our moon is the perfect size and distance from the Earth for its gravitational pull. Water...colorless, odorless and without taste, and yet no living thing can survive without it. It has wide margin between its boiling point and freezing point. Water is a universal solvent. Water is also chemically neutral. Water has a unique surface tension. Water freezes from the top down and floats, so fish can live in the winter. Ninety-seven percent of the Earth's water is in the oceans. The human brain...simultaneously processes an amazing amount of information. The eye...can distinguish among seven million colors.
¿Sabes cuántas horas trabajaba un campesino de la Edad Media?
Trabajo duro, malas cosechas, hambruna, enfermedades, guerras… Ser campesino en la Edad Media no era precisamente un camino de rosas. Implicaba muchas preocupaciones por toda una serie de aspectos incontrolables como la meteorología, las pandemias o las luchas de poder en la sociedad feudal. Pero tampoco todo era malo, al menos desde la perspectiva de la vorágine del siglo XXI. ¿Cuántas semanas de descanso van a tener este verano? Descanso laboral En pleno Antiguo Régimen, en España las vacaciones sumaban alrededor de cinco meses al año El tiempo de asueto de los españoles era parecido al de los franceses, que tenían garantizados 52 domingos, 90 días de descanso y 38 festivos. “Uno de los mitos más extendidos del capitalismo es que ha reducido el trabajo humano. Antes del capitalismo, la mayoría de las personas no trabajaba muchas horas. Sin horarios Durante los períodos de inactividad, que eran gran parte del año, no era habitual cumplir las horas regulares
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Darwin's Reading
Reading was a fundamental tool in Darwin’s scientific practice. He read widely in the scientific literature of natural history, he also copiously annotated many books and articles and he systematically abstracted many of his annotations. Since a big part of his strategy for supporting the theory of evolution relied on his ability to translate the biological problems of his day into evolutionary terms, the documentary record of his Darwin’s reading cuts across the topical structure of the Darwin archive. Charles Darwin’s Library Annotated books are principally at Cambridge University Library and the remainder are displayed at Down House. In 1875, a Catalogue of Darwin’s scientific books at Down House was compiled by Thomas W. Serials Darwin’s library contains a large collection of pamphlets (off prints & reprints) as well as bound and unbound runs of scientific journals. Systematic notes abstracting the points of interest in numerous scientific books and journals.
Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers
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Primary and Secondary Sources
Way back in 1703, a massive storm hit the southern coast of England. It was a hurricane known as the Great Storm and it took over 8,000 lives. Today we know quite a bit about that storm and what actually happened when it came ashore. We know so much because we have a reliable way to research and document events, places, and people who matter. Here’s how it works. When an event like the Great Storm happens there are usually people who witnessed or experienced it directly. These are the primary sources for research about the storm. But for your article, other sources of information may also be helpful. For your article, this is considered a secondary source. So for any important part of history, you are likely to find two types of sources that can work together to give you a strong sense of the event. By understanding the types of sources you have and how to use them in your projects, you can bring your audience the best experience and most accurate information.
