Sentences with phrase «early modern history»

Prior to becoming a full - time writer, Cremer resided in the academic world where she was a professor of early modern history.

I've posted my thesis from my MA in Early Modern History on Scribd: George Monck & The Restoration of Charles II: 1660

The editor writes: There is some evidence for nocturnal living, for example the finding that in Hadza hunter - gatherer camps there is always someone awake (15 July, p 10), and in a reassessment of the «second sleep» in early modern history (30 November 2013, p 36).

For Gregory, a professor of early modern history at Notre Dame, we are where we are in 2012 because of the specific actions, choices, and consequences of the sixteenth - century European conflict among Christians.

Not exact matches

Democrats have revived the gun debate after 49 people were killed at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early Sunday, the worst such incident in modern history.

When the U.S. stock market produced its worst start to a year in modern history, losing 10.5 % in January and early February, terms like «contagion,» «panic» and «fear and loathing» filled the air.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

Leigh E. Schmidt is assistant professor of church history in the Theological and Graduate Schools of Drew University and the author of Holy Fairs: Scottish Communions and American Revivals in the Early Modern Period.

It is not without significance that the modern artist has given himself so fully to envisioning evil and nothingness, or has been so deeply bound to visions of Satan, of chaos, and of emptiness; for the artist can not escape the reality of his time by fleeing to an earlier moment of history.

We can observe this search for a unifying principle at work in the history of philosophy, developing from Thales» water, Plato's Form of the Good, and Aristotle's Unmoved Mover, through most of medieval and early modern philosophy, and on to the objective anticipation of the final whole around which Pannenberg centers his system.

The «Our History» page on the site notes «The modern age of the Flat Earth Society dates back to the early 1800s, when it was founded by Samuel Birley Rowbotham, an English inventor.

You mentioned earlier that Hitler couldn't have been a christian because that would mean he would worship a jewish messiah, and yet the biggest hate that Jews have faced for most of modern history has been from christians.

The history of early Christianity has notable points of resemblance with the modern working class movement.

I studied transitions in early modern European history — the Protestant reformation being one of the main ones.

(He was a facinating guy who made a significant contribution to early modern European history, which I studied once upon a time.)

The modern study of the Bible can bring that history to life for us today and renew our zest in continuing the movement of whose origins and early history it tells us.

The early modern evangelicals were possessed of a marvelous insight: that religion in their world was at last, and virtually for the first time in history, no longer to be passed through the genes.

It is to be remembered that Christianity began with an apocalyptic proclamation of the end of history, one which dominated the earliest Christian communities, and one which was renewed at each of the great crises or turning points of Christian history, just as it was renewed in each of our great modern political revolutions, and equally if not more deeply renewed in the advent of our deepest modern thinking and imaginative vision.

The modern life history of Georgia begins with two early Georgian kingdoms of late antiquity, known to ancient Greeks as Iberia in the east and Colchis in the west, around the shores of the Black Sea.

They invoked Sarajevo, the Yugoslavian city that had hosted the Winter Games a decade earlier and, as a result of the war in the Balkans, remained under what would be the longest siege in modern history.

«They are really early baby blogs,» says Janet Golden, a historian at Rutgers - Camden, who read the baby book of Charlie Flood and those of countless other babies in her research on the history of babies in modern America.

The governor set the tone in his State of the State speech earlier this month, saying, «2018 may be the toughest year New York has faced in modern history.»

In modern history, the Jews have raised the question of establishing a sovereign Jewish state as early as in 1820's.

Considered in this framework there have been four periods of political party systems in British political history — using «party», in Gramsci's sense, to indicate not simply organised parties in the modern sense but, in earlier periods, groupings of political interests.

A review of recent research on dispersals by early modern humans from Africa to Asia by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa confirms that the traditional view of a single dispersal of anatomically modern humans out of Africa around 60,000 years ago can no longer be seen as the full story.

While space rocks hurtling in from space threaten to deal modern life a mortal blow, meteorite impacts during Earth's early history may have played a pivotal role in kick - starting life on the planet.

Astronomer Michael Shara of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and colleagues used digitized photographic plates dating from as early as 1923 to trace a modern star back to the nova.

«Only once before in human history have we encountered a similar process: in the early modern era, when the counterbalance that had been establish at a local level in the Middle Ages was surpassed by the increasing political and economic scale.

Looking at, among other things, medieval homilies and early modern letter correspondence, a recently published dissertation at the University of Gothenburg shows how clausal arguments, and in particular clausal subjects, have been expressed at different points in time in the history of English.

The researchers caution that it's impossible to draw broad conclusions about Neandertal life histories from this one sample, such as whether Neandertals weaned their children earlier or later than modern humans who lived at the same time, or whether Neandertal children grew up faster, as some earlier studies have suggested — questions that could heavily bear on why Neandertals could not keep up with modern humans in the survival sweepstakes.

Louise Humphrey, an anthropologist and tooth expert at the Natural History Museum in London, agrees, although she says that the early weaning of the Scladina child is «intriguing» because it is more than a year earlier than the nearly 30 months typical of modern human nonindustrial societies.

Not only does the bird look nearly modern, but it was apparently a water dweller, showing that «ancient birds became specialized in their respective habits» very early, says paleontologist Luis Chiappe of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in California.

The researchers compared the wings of the earliest known bat fossil, a 50 - million - year - old specimen housed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, with those of three other species of extinct bats and 10 species of modern bats.

By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution - researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have found that the relationship between plants and filamentous microbes not only dates back millions of years, but that modern plants have maintained this ancient mechanism to accommodate and respond to microbial invaders.

They believe the finding could rewrite the history of when early modern humans migrated out of Africa.

Coincidentally or otherwise, this new reconstruction of the Neanderthals» complicated early history closely resembles what we learned about the populations of anatomically modern people who first spread into Europe and Asia.

Just think: Someday you could walk among the Neanderthals, just as the earliest modern humans once did — and realize that history really does repeat itself [source: Edwards].

These types of plants, vegetables, and fruits may have been grown during earlier periods in human history, but are not used in modern large - scale agriculture.

My name is Ashley and I am a PhD candidate in early modern Italian history who works in study abroad, loves to travel, is obsessed with all things fashion, and who believes women should not have to sacrifice style for academic legitimacy.

During its early history, Overijssel was formerly known as Oversticht and also included much of modern - day Drenthe.

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For audience members whose knowledge of modern Middle Eastern history could stand some brushing up, the first act's portrait of Satrapi's early family life will contain a number of revelations.

A reclaimed E.T. cartridge from the landfill now sits in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, complementing the copy of Warshaw's earlier game, the critically - acclaimed space shooter Yars» Revenge, which takes pride of place in the Architecture & Design collection at the Museum of Modern Art.

Sloppy English usage may seem like a modern problem, but the laxness that has led to this moment in grammar's history bears a strong resemblance to the atmosphere in early - 18th - century England.

After dispensing with Greek and Latin early last century, progressives campaigned relentlessly to discredit all the basic components of liberal education, condemning modern languages, history, geography, literature, higher mathematics, and laboratory sciences as elitist, inappropriate, and even damaging for all but a small number of college - bound students.

K - 4.3 The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - USH.5 - 12.1 Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) NSS - USH.5 - 12.2 Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585 - 1763) NSS - USH.5 - 12.3 Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754 - 1820s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.4 Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801 - 1861) NSS - USH.5 - 12.5 Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 - 1877) NSS - USH.5 - 12.6 Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870 - 1900) NSS - USH.5 - 12.7 Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890 - 1930) NSS - USH.5 - 12.8 Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929 - 1945) NSS - USH.5 - 12.9 Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.10 Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the Present)

Sloppy English usage may seem like a modern problem, but the laxness that has led to this moment in grammar's history bears a strong resemblance to the atmosphere in early - 18thcentury England.

Dr Claire Breay, Head of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts at the British Library, said: «The British Library's medieval collections are world - renowned and it's very exciting to be opening up the Library's collections of early literary history to young learners through Discovering LiteraEarly Modern Manuscripts at the British Library, said: «The British Library's medieval collections are world - renowned and it's very exciting to be opening up the Library's collections of early literary history to young learners through Discovering Literaearly literary history to young learners through Discovering Literature.

AQA GCSE History: Britain: Health and the People: c1000 to the Present Day - The Beginnings of Change Describe medical progress during Early Modern...