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Language, power and identity in ancient Palestine.
August 1, 1995... I
INTRODUCTION
In this age of the nation-state, conventional views about group identity are still profoundly influenced by the assumptions of romantic nationalism. One such assumption concerns the importance of shared language in the...
The culture of children in medieval England.
August 1, 1995... Anyone wishing to study the history of children in the Middle Ages could well begin with the chapters about them in the famous encyclopaedia On the Properties of Things, compiled by Bartholomew the Englishman in the mid-thirteenth century and...
The English Reformation and the evidence of folklore.
August 1, 1995... During the past ten years the English Reformation has become the subject of an exciting, informative and somewhat artificial debate. Its outline is familiar to anybody with even a cursory knowledge of the period. On the one hand are those who...
Contesting illness in early modern Naples: 'Miracolati,' physicians and the Congregation of Rites. (miraculously cured sick people; Naples, Italy)
August 1, 1995... Recent work in the history of medicine has stressed the importance of the "view from below" - the sick person's view - as a way of overcoming an overly "Whiggish" approach to the subject, which has tended to isolate it from mainstream...
Slave clothing and African-American culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
August 1, 1995... In December 1852 the thirty-year-old Frederick Law Olmsted arrived in Washington at the beginning of the first of three expeditions that, by the end of the decade, would make him the best-known of the myriad travellers who criss-crossed the...
Historians and nation-building in Germany after reunification.
August 1, 1995... German historians have been forced to take stock of their subject by the reunification of their country in 1990. Its implications for German historiography are considerable, in that reunification threatens the plurality of views on German...
