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Alexander, Dominic, Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell, 2008. Alford, Stephen, Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008. Atherstone, Andrew, ed., The Heart of Faith: Following Christ in the Church o/ England. Cambridge, U.K.: Lutterworth,...
Tags: A., Baptist, Bologna, Cambridge University Press, Church, Culture, David, Early, Grand, History, J., Jews, John, Life, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Press, R., Religion, SAINTS, Society, Theology, Thought
Research articles 2008-12-01
The crystallization of counter-enlightenment and philosophe identities: theological controversy and catholic enlightenment in pre-revolutionary France
RECENT works of modern French history have found it fashionable, when focusing on the eighteenth century from across the jagged shoals of nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, to reductively treat Francophone national identity as the dialogical interaction of two related "imagined communities." (1) On the one hand, as scholars such as...
Tags: American, Cartesian, Catholic, Church, Culture, D., David, De, Early, Fall, G., God, H., History, J., Jacques, Jeffrey, Jesus, John, Joseph, Journal, L., La, Les, M., O'Connor, Old, Oxford University Press, Philosophy, Politics, Society, Voltaire Inc., W.
Research articles 2008-12-01
Books received
Aageson, James W., Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2008. d'Abrera, Anna Ysabel, The Tribunal of Zaragoza and Crypto-Judaism, 1484-1515. Europa Sacra 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. Ando, Clifford, The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire. The Transformation of the Classical...
Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Charles, Church, Culture, David, Early, Faith, History, J., James, John, L., Medieval, Oxford University Press, Paul, Press, Theology, William
Research articles 2008-09-01
New book chronicle
Memory, from the 'dark abyss of time' to present day conflict zones, via biographies of some of the British players in twentieth-century archaeology, permeates this chronicle. Two points emerge: first, that good writing matters. Second, that the past is eternally composed. The past composite LAURENT OLIVIER. Le sombre...
Tags: A., American, Andrew, Athens, Classical, Cyprus, David, Davis, Early, English, Heritage, Ma, Mediterranean, Memory, Michael, Museum, Norman, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philip, Press, Rome, Studies
Research articles 2008-09-01
What caused the Viking Age?
Introduction The Scandinavian diaspora of the late eighth to mid-eleventh centuries AD known as the Viking Age was both widespread in scale and profound in impact. Long-range maritime expeditions facilitated a florescence of piracy, trade, migration, conquest and exploration across much of Europe--ultimately extending to western Asia and the...
Tags: A., Age, Atlantic, B., Barrett, C., Dublin, E., Early, G., H., Hill, Iron, J., K., Leiden, M., McCormick, N., North, Northern, Oxford, Oxford University Press, P., R., S., St John, T., Weber
Research articles 2008-09-01
Discussion on palaeoecology of the Late Triassic extinction event in the SW UK
Journal, Vol. 165, 2008, pp. 319-332 Jonathan Radley writes: The Penarth Group of Late Triassic and possibly ranging to Early Jurassic age of the southern UK marks a marine transgression and the establishment of a shallow epicontinental seaway (Hallam & El Shaarawy 1982; Warrington & Ivimey-Cook 1992), influenced by regressive-transgressive...
Tags: A., Early, J., Swift, Westbury Plc., Wright
Research articles 2008-09-01
The age of magicians: periodization in the history of European magic.(Report)
John Maynard Keynes once described Sir Isaac Newton, perhaps the greatest figure of the scientific revolution, as being "not the first of the age of reason" but "the last of the magicians." (1) Keynes was commenting, among other things, on Newton's fascination with alchemy and the...
Tags: Church, Culture, De, Early, English, Enlightenment, History, John, Magic, Martin, Medieval, Moore, Oxford University Press, Press, Protestant, Reformation, Religion, Richard, Roman, Science, Spanish, Thomas, Western
Research articles 2008-06-22
Shaping superstition in late medieval England.(Report)
Superstition occupied an ambiguous place in late medieval England. While elsewhere in fifteenth-century Europe the clergy increasingly reviled superstitions in everyday practices as the fearful portal allowing the devil's entry into human affairs, this certainty faltered in England. (1) The English clergy never ignored beliefs and...
Tags: Aquinas, CONCLUSIONS, Dialogue, Early, English, God, H., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Luther, Medieval, Norwich, Oxford University Press, Press, Reformation, Richard, Saint, Thomas, William, York
Research articles 2008-06-22
New book chronicle
Piles of animals, smaller piles of records from the 1920s to 1940s, revisited: three reports on three sites, seminal for the recognition of the antiquity of humans in North America, showcase new investigative methods and techniques to further our understanding of human-animal interaction in the dying days of the Pleistocene...
Tags: American, Athens, Chapter 5, Classical, David, Early, History, Hudson, John, Medieval, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Robert, Royal Commission
Research articles 2008-06-01
Books received
Aageson, James W., Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church. Library of Pauline Studies. Peabody, Mass.: Henderson Publishing, 2007. Akenson, Donald Harman, Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself. London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. Anderson, Emma, The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey...
Tags: American, Cambridge University Press, Church, Culture, David, Early, James, John, M., Paul, Press, Theology
Research articles 2008-03-01
Patterns of looting in southern Iraq
Introduction Southern Iraq, sometimes called the 'cradle of civilisation', witnessed the world's first cities, writing, professional art and many other manifestations of complex society. Moreover, its unique combination of well preserved archaeological remains together with cuneiform tablets makes ancient Mesopotamia potentially the most knowable of all early civilisations. This...
Tags: Adams, Akkadian, Digital Globe, Early, Mesopotamia, Wright
Research articles 2008-03-01
Books received but not reviewed/Livres recus mais non analyses: January-December 2007/Januar-Decembre 2007
Ajzenstat, Janet, The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas. Kingston, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xvi, 200 pp. Akenson, Donald Harman, Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself Kingston, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University...
Tags: Cambridge University Press, David, Early, History, James, John, Politics, Pp, Press, Social
Research articles 2007-12-22
Liminal language: boundaries of magic and honor in early modern Essex.
In 1645, in the small village of Stisted, Essex, two serving maids told the Justice of the Peace that a group of twenty or more men and women had, on several occasions, visited various gentry households where they "conjured" the residents to sleep. This group included ...
Tags: Catholic, Early, English, Henry, John, Justice, Oxford University Press, Ralph, Religion, Robert, Thomas, Thompson, Turner, William, Wood
Research articles 2007-12-22
Books received
The list includes all books received between 1 June 2007 and 1 September 2007. Those featuring at the beginning of New Book Chronicle have, however, not been duplicated in this list. The listing of a book in this chronicle does not preclude its subsequent review in Antiquity. General ...
Tags: Athens, David, Early, Ma, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Perspectives, Press
Research articles 2007-12-01
Books received.
AARON, DAVID H. Etched in Stone: The Emergence of the Decalogue. New York: T and T Clark, 2006. ACKERMAN, ROBERT, ed. Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. AITKEN, JAMES K. AND EDWARD KESSLER, eds. Challenges in...
Tags: American, Berkeley, Cambridge University Press, Culture, David, Early, G., History, Holocaust, J., James, Jews, John, Judaism, L., Life, M., Medieval, Memory, Oxford University Press, Politics, Press, S., Science, Society, Stanford University, Trans, W.
Research articles 2007-09-22
New Book Chronicle
Children, they say, should be seen, not heard. But are we seeing enough of them in the archaeological record? This is what we shall first consider, reviewing a couple of very different books on the subject. The step from children to food is easily taken, and we shall pass into...
Tags: Cyprus, David, Early, History, Ma, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Press, William
Research articles 2007-09-01
Ritual time in British Plantation Colonies, 1650-1780
Four thousand miles of ocean divided the plantation colonies of the first British Empire from the English metropole, a great physical distance that was augmented by the cultural divergence that divided those slave societies from England. Colonists in Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina thus made the re-creation of English ritual...
Tags: African, American, Assembly, Black, Chapel, Christmas, Church, Council, Culture, Early, Easter, English, God, Hall, History, J., James, John, Johnson, Joseph, Journal, Kingston Technology Corp., Lord, Oxford University Press, Protestant, Testing, Thomas, W.
Research articles 2007-09-01
Books received
Alazard, Florence, and Frank La Brasca, La Papaute a la Renaissance. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2007. Alfonsi, Petrus, Dialogue against the Jews. Translated by Irven M. Resnick. The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation 8. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. Alvis, Robert E., Religion...
Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Church, Culture, D., David, E., Early, F., Faith, God, History, J., James, John, Life, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Politics, Reformation, Routledge, S., Theology, Thomas, William
Research articles 2007-09-01
Paul E. Johnson. The Early American Republic, 1789-1829
Paul E. Johnson. The Early American Republic, 1789-1829. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 208. Paper, $24.95; ISBN 0-19-515423-1. Paul Johnson, professor of history at the University of South Carolina and author of a number of highly acclaimed works including A Shopkeeper's Millennium, has offered a fresh survey...
Tags: American, Early, Johnson, Oxford University Press
Research articles 2007-03-22
The visual dialectics of golf, leisure, and beauty in Eva Fong Chan's paintings
(Original Title: Racialized Images in 1920s and 1930s San Francisco: The Paintings of Eva Fong Chan) Eva Fong Chan (1897-1991), a Chinese-American artist who actively painted and exhibited her work between 1925 and 1940, painted Bo Kay Chart Golfing, Thomas Kwan Watching (1931) and Portrait of Tom Yuk Lan...
Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, Asian, Early, Thomas, Western
Research articles 2007-01-01
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