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My object has been to keep social rather than political facts in view, and throughout to supply by illustration from contemporary accounts some of the characteristic detail which is apt to be crowded …

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject History of Europe – Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: English Grade:58% von 70%, University of Nottingham (School of History), course: Hauptseminar …

Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject History of Europe – Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: 1, 0, University of Sussex, language: English, abstract: Throughout recent years, in the disc …

The object of this book is to show how the foundations of our civilization were laid in the past and how its chief elements were introduced, and to depict its progressive development until it had ass …

All divisions of history into periods are artificial in proportion as they are precise. In history there is, strictly speaking, no end and no beginning. Each event is the product of an infinite serie …

There is a peculiar difficulty in bridging over long periods of history, and in clearing our minds of the habits and prejudices of today, before we criticize characters and events which belong to dis …

The Life of Anskar, written by his companion and successor Bishop Rimbert, which we have here translated, contains nearly all that is known of his life and work. A brief summary of what is told us by …

Till about the Year of Grace 860 there were no kings in Norway, nothing but numerous jarls, -essentially kinglets, each presiding over a kind of republican or parliamentary little territory; generall …

No one who visits both Rome and Athens at the present day can fail to be struck by one remarkable difference between the two famous cities, which stand for so much in the history of the world. While …

Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject History of Europe – Middle Ages, Early Modern Age, grade: 1, 0, University of Sussex, language: English, abstract: Beginning in the 14th century, witch …