Sentences with phrase «early modern times»

But of course students need to know about the more distant past too, so we're continuing to offer a wide range of topics already popular with students and teachers - ranging from medieval and early modern times to the First and Second World Wars.»

This is how the word was used from medieval to early modern times.

Known for its strategic gameplay founded on historical civilizations, the series spans a period of time from the Stone Age to early modern time, and even includes an episode exploring the legendary creatures and lore from mythology.

Not exact matches

The hotel's Queen Anne decor may harken back to an earlier time, but modern amenities like heated marble floors, plasma TVs, therapeutic tubs and high - speed wireless Internet keep it firmly in the 21st century.

In times past there were two methods of engaging in this type of fraud, both of which can be illustrated by the practices of English goldsmiths in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the forerunners of modern - day banks.

While Jesus is often derided by modern Jews, this was not the case in the earliest of times.

For some time, hyper - modern writers have brought to bear against their modern past the same sort of scarifying analysis that earlier modern writers brought against the premodern past.

In Creating Catholics: Catechism and Primary Education in Early Modern France, Karen Carter examines catechisms and visitation records from multiple dioceses to explore why, by the time of the French Revolution, French Catholics knew» and zealously embraced» «the doctrines and behaviors of their religion.»

Now in his earliest metaphysic embedded in Science and the Modern World Whitehead did address a problem common to philosophers of that period: how to find a workable substitute for space, time, and matter, the discredited notions of scientific materialism.

In fact, by confusing Tradition with traditionalism and radically opposing the Scriptures to Tradition, much of the Christian wisdom Tradition, beginning with the writings of the early Church Fathers (& Mothers) and continuing even into modern time, the Protestant Reformers have cut much of the Western Church off from the ongoing Revelation of the Christian wisdom Tradition.

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.

The culture of Islamic countries has grown through the interaction of groups of Islamic peoples of widely varied ethnic and geographic backgrounds and through strong cultural influences from the non-Islamic civilizations of Greece, Persia, and India in the early days, and of western Europe in modern times.

Whitehead» s religiously - guided education might have been unsuited for modern times, yet it is fair to say that his profound philosophical development had its beginning in some very early insights, for example, the concept of the consequent nature of God and the evidence of God's presence in the pattern of beauty in mathematics.

In his earlier writing, Pinnock's Biblically derived qualifications concerning inerrancy were based on the facts that modern historiography was unknown in Biblical times, that writers use the language of simple observation (e. g., the sunrise), that figurative and mythological language is used (Isa.

The modern study of the «forms» of literature, their origin and early development, has found an exceptionally rich field in the biblical literature, so varied as it is, and extending over so long a period of time.

At the same time, we need to acknowledge points of dissimilarity between the early church's teaching and that of the modern church, especially those that speak of peace.

At the time Thornton had closely read The Concept of Nature (1920) and Principles of Natural Knowledge (2d edition, 1925), tended to interpret Science and the Modern World (1925) in line with these earlier works, and was acquainted with Religion in the Making (1926) though somewhat unsure what to make of its doctrine of God.2 He took comfort in Whitehead's remark concerning the immortality of the soul, and evidently wanted to apply it to all theological issues: «There is no reason why such a question should not be decided on more special evidence, religious or otherwise, provided that it is trustworthy.

Although I believe that modern Christians can be instructed by biblical perspectives on church and family, I am not advocating a return to some earlier time when the church may seem to have been more faithful.

Early man defeated Death many times over by evolving and creating humanity into the modern day society that we are.

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

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

The Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch thinks that the relative neglect of the problem of death in modern secular thought is due to the unconscious influence of inherited Christian views: «Thus in its ability to suppress the anxiety of all earlier times, apparently this quite shallow courage [of modern secular people] feasts on a borrowed credit card.

A fourth constructive step we could take would be to look back beyond the birth of the modern research university to reclaim some of the aims of earlier Christian colleges in forms appropriate to our time.

Among the Hebrews, therefore, as among early peoples generally, and, indeed, down to modern times, the process of courtship involved a commercial transaction.

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.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

The approved $ 143 billion spending plan was one of the earliest budgets to pass the Legislature in modern times.

Governor Andrew Cuomo hinted during a speech earlier this month at New York University that outside employment is «problematic in modern times» and that the «cleanest» solution would be to ban it completely.

The New York Times recently called Buffalo «home to some of the greatest American architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries» and on another occasion «a textbook for a course in modern American buildings.»

It also confirms that saber - toothed cats were roaming northern Europe at the same time as early modern humans.

They found that selection was the likely cause of how negative sentence structures changed over time (like how the Old English «Ic ne secge» became the Early Modern English «I say not»).

«The new timing rules out earlier modern humans in the Middle East [from participating] in the admixture,» says Janet Kelso from the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, one of the lead researchers on the project.

That's much more than earlier estimates, which postulated no more than about 1350 kilograms of force, and nearly 10 times more powerful than the bite of modern alligators, some of the strongest snappers alive.

Determining the timing of this «cosmic dawn» is one of the holy grails of modern astronomy, and it can be indirectly probed through the study of early interstellar dust.

The late Proterozoic — the time period beginning less than a billion years ago following this remarkable chapter of sustained low levels of oxygen — was strikingly different, marked by extreme climatic events manifest in global - scale glaciation, indications of at least intervals of modern - like oxygen abundances, and the emergence and diversification of the earliest animals.

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.

Whether it is modern medicine's prolonging of life or the fashioning of hunting tools in earliest times, it is hard to think of any milestone in human progress that did not have a technological breakthrough behind it.

In addition, Dr. Grabowski and the co-authors found that the level of size difference between males and females (sexual dimorphism) appears to have only slightly decreased from earlier hominin species by the time of early H. erectus, and only decreased to modern human - like low levels later in our lineage.

«This new timing rules out earlier modern humans in the Middle East [from participating] in the admixture,» says Janet Kelso from the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, one of the lead researchers on the project.

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.

Neandertals arose in Europe and Asia as early as 250,000 years ago, and for most of that time they had Eurasia to themselves — until, that is, modern humans came in and replaced them.

* Correction, 5 May, 3:57 p.m.: An earlier version of this story stated that mosasaurs were living 130 million years ago at the time of the earliest relatives of modern birds.

But researchers disagree about the timing of that exodus — whether the ancestral stock of modern humans left Africa earlier than 100,000 years ago or in the past 60,000 years.

Newman noted that Blake was born in 1757 and that Yeats died in 1939: «They reflected a creative interest in alchemy that spanned the late 18th to the early 20th century — exactly the «rational» period of the Enlightenment and of modern science — at the same time that most historians were branding alchemy delusional.»

In contradiction to this theory is archaeological evidence to suggest early modern humans had already expanded beyond Africa by this time (22) and that the eruption of the YTT did not disturb the behavior of populations inhabiting peninsular India (12).

And it's really the first opportunity that scientists have had to look at the composition of a social group in early modern humans from that time period.

He was expecting to find the remains of an early modern human — Neanderthals were thought to be long extinct by that time — but the boy's skeleton was different.

Piperno and Winter devised a scheme to essentially travel back in time by comparing plants grown in modern conditions with plants grown in the early Holocene chamber.

[10] Earlier still, a 200 - million year period of intermittent, widespread glaciation extending close to the equator (Snowball Earth) appears to have been ended suddenly, about 550 million years ago, by a colossal volcanic outgassing which raised the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere abruptly to 12 percent, about 350 times modern levels, causing extreme greenhouse conditions and carbonate deposition as limestone at the rate of about 1 mm per day.

«We see modern humans arriving in Siberia certainly by 45,000 years ago, in Europe around the same time, in southern Asia possibly a bit earlier and they are certainly present in Australia by then,» Douka said.