Department of History
Recent Submissions
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The Hutchinsonian defence of an Old Testament Trinitarian Christianity: The controversy over Elahim, 1735-1773
(Taylor & Francis, 2003)The importance of Hebraic studies as part of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment debate can hardly be overestimated. The question of the authority of the Books of Scripture forced intellectuals in England to revisit the ... -
Thomas Allies, John Henry Newman and Providentalist History
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)This article discusses and evaluates the historiographical work of a leading Oxford convert and Ultramontane, Thomas Allies (1813 1903). An evaluation of Allies by the criteria of the Ultramontane scholarship he endeavoured ... -
The political and cultural underpinnings of Atlanticism's crisis in the 1960s
(German Historical Institute, 2014)The term “Atlantic Community” was introduced in the early twentieth century by the American journalists Walter Lippmann and Clarence Streit.1 It referred to a union of people and cultures, not solely of states.2 The ... -
The Religion of the Non-Jurors and the Early British Enlightenment: a study of Henry Dodwell
(Taylor & Francis, 2002)The article considers the fundamental motivations and associated theological thought of those involved in the Non-Juring schism in the Church of England in the period after the Revolution of 1688. It indicates and ... -
Anciennete among the Non-Jurors: a study of Henry Dodwell
(Taylor & Francis, 2005)The article offers a study of the theological method of Henry Dodwell, the most distinguished British savant of the late Stuart period and a leading figure in the Non-Juring movement. The study takes the form of arguments ... -
Cross-document word matching for segmentation and retrieval of Ottoman divans
(Springer London, 2014)Motivated by the need for the automatic indexing and analysis of huge number of documents in Ottoman divan poetry, and for discovering new knowledge to preserve and make alive this heritage, in this study we propose a ... -
All the World Wide Web's a Stage: Improving students' information skills with dramatic video tutorials
(Emerald, 2013)Purpose – The purpose of this article is to describe a collaborative project organised by Bilkent University Library, Turkey, to produce a series of instructional videos that are both informative and entertaining and ... -
Automatic categorization of Ottoman poems
(De Gruyter, 2014-04-08)Authorship attribution and identifying time period of literary works are fundamental problems in quantitative analysis of languages. We investigate two fundamentally different machine learning text categorization methods, ... -
Money and the English Economy in the Welfth and Thirteenth Centuries
(Blackwell Publishing, 2011)The subject of money is of clear importance to the history of the English economy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and has attracted a considerable literature over the past decades. The author surveys the main ...
