Sentences with phrase «used by some historians»

The sixth level of abstraction displays the categories of «forces» or «factors» traditionally used by historians to indicate their disciplinary perspective: economic, political, technological, aesthetic, psychological, social, or cultural.
But the purpose of the hierarchy is precisely to formalize the process of abstraction used by historians, so that they can avoid the logical inconsistencies that often corrupt their narrative explanations and meet the criticism that has been (I think justly) leveled at them.
CE and BCE are used by some historians instead of AD and BC as they are not religious based.
In addition to his presence in international media, Liebenberg's work has been exhibited on a notable scale across Africa and Europe, and has been widely used by historians, researchers and filmmakers.

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Used by our reporter to survey the life stories of hundreds of great American companies, this terrific handbook (his copy is now dog - eared and filled with dozens of bookmarks) is indispensable to the budding corporate historian.
«Sleeping With The Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War,» a 2011 book by historian Hal Vaughan, uses what were at the time newly declassified documents from French and German authorities, to substantiate claims that she committed espionage for the Nazis and was romantically involved with German intelligence officer Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage.
While Eusebius can be regarded as a serious, though by no means always an accurate historian, the numerous Christian Acts of various apostles, none of them earlier than the middle of the second century, are for the most part fictional romances, full of pious legend, but of little or no use as history.
In The Historian and the Believer, 57 Van A. Harvey uses the metaphor of judicial proceedings to illuminate the different relationships between evidence, warrants, and conclusions involved in the «field - encompassing» discipline practiced by the modern scientific hHistorian and the Believer, 57 Van A. Harvey uses the metaphor of judicial proceedings to illuminate the different relationships between evidence, warrants, and conclusions involved in the «field - encompassing» discipline practiced by the modern scientific historianhistorian.
«He is a historian of the first order» Archeological sites have been discovered by using Lukes notes in the book of Acts.
When it is used by the Greek Old Testament or by the first - century Jewish historian Josephus, however, the word is usually translated, «to be engaged in a revolt, rebellion, riot, insurrection.»
Historian James Brundage and legal historian John Witte have described how Catholic canon law of the Middle Ages was used to a significant extent by both the Protestant Reformation and much of secular family law in WesternHistorian James Brundage and legal historian John Witte have described how Catholic canon law of the Middle Ages was used to a significant extent by both the Protestant Reformation and much of secular family law in Westernhistorian John Witte have described how Catholic canon law of the Middle Ages was used to a significant extent by both the Protestant Reformation and much of secular family law in Western society.
Readable reflections on Jesus Christ by a historian who makes use of the categories of process thought.
The deuteronomic historians — we will use the symbol DH for them — set all of this in a four - member formula by which the individual stories of the judges are introduced and linked to one another.
Early Christianity certainly deserves to be studied by the historian of religions, and by other students who use his methods.
The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).
According to food historian Waverly Root, the first recorded mention of its use in England was in 1640, where it was considered a crude food, eaten by «country people and strong laboring men... [but] too strong for tender and gentle stomachs.»
«There are generally considered to be four types of barbecue in the country and they, by and large, are broken down by the type of sauce used in basting and also as a finish sauce,» explains Lake E. High Jr., a South Carolinian and barbecue historian.
Sarah Levitt, a costume historian by background, uses this picture as the starting point through an exploration... Read More
Such civic - minded uses for the buildings hearken back to the first field houses, built in the early 1900s under the direction of parks Supt. Frank J. Foster.Foster was inspired by Chicago's first settlement house — large buildings where immigrants could go for shelter and social services — when he ordered the construction of the first 10 field houses, which opened in 1905, said Park District historian Julia Bachrach.
«In contrast to the long tradition of field guides authored by expert natural historians, Map of Life draws on collective wisdom, amalgamating global data sets of species observations from published sources and using a series of modeling techniques to convert them into species range maps,» Goldsmith wrote.
(A blog by science historian Nathaniel Comfort shrewdly deconstructs the rhetoric used by Lander to advance Broad's interests.
In this clip from «3D Spies of WWII» by PBS's NOVA, historians and pilots relive the early days of surveillance imaging to explain how those stereoscopic images worked and how they were used.
The social science considerations of using genomic technologies for conservation were presented by historian Mark Barrows, author of «Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology,» and environmental law professor, Alex Camacho, author of «Going the Way of the Dodo: De-Extinction, Dualisms, and Reframing Conservation».
Viral Networks, a Virginia Tech workshop supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will bring medical historians together to make innovative use of methods, tools, and data from the digital humanities.
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Exploring some of the principal methods by which architectural historians can date historic buildings, from the use of archive documents, old maps and
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And is used in teaching by economists, historians, and international development experts and in schools.
Beyond this, it's good to remember that art historians have also discriminated: The standard History of Art by Horst Janson, the tome used in university art history surveys for so many years, didn't include female artists until the mid-1980s.
Creative Time curator Nato Thompson has made it pretty clear that he is more interested in social engagement than in «participatory art,» a term used by art historian Claire Bishop: that is, if given a choice between art and social engagement, he'll go with social engagement.
The theory of a quilt code used during the time of slavery and presented in this book has been widely disputed by quilt historians and UGRR scholars for 10 years.
Join us on Saturday, March 31 for a performance and artist talk by Tara Rodgers (Analog Tara), a multi-instrumentalist composer and historian of electronic music and sound who produces techno tracks using analog sound sources.
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Curated by Daniela Ferrari, art historian and curator at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART), Italy, the exhibition will explore the use of text and the written word in the practice of major Post-War Italian artists including, Vincenzo Agnetti (1926 - 1981), Alighiero Boetti (1940 - 1994), Dadamaino (1930 - 2004), Lucio Fontana (1899 - 1968), Emilio Isgrò (b. 1937), Piero Manzoni (1933 - 1963), Mimmo Rotella (1918 - 2006), Salvo (1947 - 2015) and Mario Schifano (1934 - 1998), alongside key international artists including Cy Twombly (1928 - 2011), Joseph Kosuth (b. 1945), Jannis Kounellis (1936 - 2017), Mel Bochner (b. 1940), John Baldessari (b. 1931) and Tracey Emin (b. 1963).
The Paris School is a term used by art historians to denote the community of artists, both French and foreign, working in the city during the first half of the 20th century, rather than a strictly defined style, school or movement.
James Cuno, president of the J. Paul Getty Trust and an evangelist for the use of technology by art historians, assessed «Recognition» as a «well - meaning and an interesting experiment.
Lebohang Kanye, a 26 - year - old photographer who creates digital collages using old and new photographs, caught the eye of Hans - Ulrich Obrist, a celebrity curator and art historian whose choices are closely watched by the international art world.
This accords with the definition of «contemporary» used by general historians, but it's too vague for our purposes.
The term Hard - edge painting was first used in 1959 by the art historian and critic Jules Langsner, when describing the non-figurative pictures of four West Coast artists (Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley and John McLaughlin) whom he had brought together in an exhibition entitled Four Abstract Classicists, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
He has also used the spiral form in A Sculpture Left by the Tide 1970 (AL00184), in relation to which art historian Rudi Fuchs has identified the spiral as «a figure of slow movement» (Fuchs 1986, p. 133).
Steven Platzman, an art historian and private dealer in San Francisco since 1999, has a dozen works on paper by Kahlo and 10 by Diego Rivera, on view by appointment only, in the Pacific Heights flat he uses as a showplace.
Back in the 1990s I read an essay by an historian who spelled out the 5 steps that all despotic rulers and regimes of the 20th century used to come to power and gain control of the populace.
The Kochs, Scaifes & others have used their billions to construct a vast «Potemkin Village» (in the words of science historian Naomi Oreskes) of denialism, by funding groups like «Americans For Prosperity», the «Heartland Institute», the «Competitive Enterprise Institute» and a whole cadre of other front groups, organizations, and hired guns implicated in the campaign to discredit climate science and climate scientists.
Anchored by a comprehensive introduction exploring the main themes of the legal history of the region, a group of distinguished historians from have contributed 11 substantive essays (three in French), on subjects as varied as women in court, grand juries, western law and aboriginal peoples, gun use and control, Quebec legal literature, married women's property, and imprisonment for debt — The Osgoode Society and the University of Toronto Press
If therefore the student in our laws hath formed both his sentiments and style, by perusal and imitation of the purest classical writers, among whom the historians and orators will best deserve his regard; if he can reason with precision, and separate argument from fallacy, by the clear simple rules of pure unsophisticated logic; if he can fix his attention, and steadily pursue truth through any the most intricate deduction, by the use of mathematical demonstrations; if he has enlarged his conceptions of nature and art, by a view of the several branches of genuine, experimental, philosophy; if he has impressed on his mind the sound maxims of the law of nature, the best and most authentic foundation of human laws; if, lastly, he has contemplated those maxims reduced to a practical system in the laws of imperial Rome; if he has done this, or any part of it, (though all may be easily done under as able instructors as ever graced any feats of learning) a student thus qualified may enter upon the study of the law with incredible advantage and reputation.
The first use of it that I have found in the context of describing the forced removal of indigenous children was by Peter Read, a historian now at the ANU, in his paper The Stolen Generations prepared for the New South Wales Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs in 1981.
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