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Item Open Access Assimilation in north-western England from the Norman conquest to the early thirteenth century: The Kirkby, Pennington and Copeland families(The University of Leeds, 2010) Latimer, P.By looking at three families, all of Anglo-Scandinavian descent in the male line and neighbours in the Furness peninsula, this article seeks to examine the particular ways in which they, and similar families in the region, adapted to the changes that occurred in the century and a half or so after the Norman Conquest. By the early thirteenth century, an assimilation had taken place whereby these families were beginning to play the role expected of knightly families in thirteenth-century England as a whole, taking their place within a single elite alongside families that traced their male descent back to Continental immigrants. The article examines this process of assimilation by looking at the families' participation in the local aristocratic network, their changing naming practices, their marriage and landholding relationships, and their mix of old and new tenures. It further looks at the introduction of castles, markets and boroughs, and the families' interaction with the growing penetration and sophistication of royal and ecclesiastical administration in the region. Finally, it examines the families' reaction to, and participation in, the transformation of the local Church, both secular and regular. © 2010 Maney Publishing.Item Open Access Early modern Ottoman politics of emotion: what has love got to do with it?(Brill Academic Publishers, 2020) Tekgül, NilDespite a growing interest worldwide in the history of emotions, the topic has attracted the attention of scholars of Ottoman history only recently. In an attempt to understand the motivations underlying political undertakings, this article explores emotions, with a specific focus on mahabbet (love) and merhamet (compassion). It examines the social meaning attached to and the cultural importance of love and compassion in early modern Ottoman political language. I claim that as a socially constructed and political emotion, compassion was historically and culturally significant, serving as a tool to formulate political relations of domination and subordination.Item Open Access How useful are episcopal ordination lists as a source for medieval english monastic history?(Cambridge University Press, 2018) Thornton, David E.This article evaluates ordination lists preserved in bishops' registers from late medieval England as evidence for the monastic orders, with special reference to religious houses in the diocese of Worcester, from 1300 to 1540. By comparing almost 7,000 ordination records collected from registers from Worcester and neighbouring dioceses with 178 'conventual' lists, it is concluded that over 25 per cent of monks and canons are not named in the extant ordination lists. Over half of these omissions are arguably due to structural gaps in the surviving ordination lists, but other, non-structural factors may also have contributed.Item Open Access Imperial lessons from Athens and Sparta: Eighteenth-century British histories of ancient Greece(Imprint Academic, 2006) Ataç, C. A.The only perspective through which eighteenth-century British histories of Ancient Greece have been studied is their attitude towards monarchy and democracy. Because these texts collectively depicted monarchy as the ideal type of government and democracy as the worst, scholars have labelled them simply as pro-Spartan and anti-Athenian. Nevertheless, ancient history-writing was then a practice aiming at providing insights into as many contemporary political topics as possible and Ancient Greek history-writing was no exception. The question of empire appears to be a problem that equally preoccupied the historians. In that sense, the eighteenth-century British histories of Ancient Greece serve as an alternative source for arriving at the contemporary understanding of empire in Britain. Furthermore, the tone of the historians' arguments, which was very much determined by the theme selected, was far from always pro-Spartan. Within the context of empire, Athens was presented as the model to be emulated.Item Open Access Laura Nasrallah, Annemarie Luijendijk and Charalambos Bakırtzıs (eds), from roman to early Christian Cyprus(Published by Cambridge University Press, 2022-01-28) Gülsevinç, F.; Zavagno, LucaItem Open Access Maddeci bir tarih anlayışına doğru(Dipnot Basın Yayın Pazarlama Ltd. Şti., 2010) Sönmez, ErdemItem Open Access Margaret Fuller's Rome and the problem of provincial American democracy(Routledge, 2006) Roberts, T. M.Margaret Fuller's visit to Italy as a correspondent for the New York Tribune at the time of the 1848 revolutions gave her a unique perspective on them, not only as a feminist intellectual but also as a commentator on the American relationship with revolutionary Europe. In her Tribune writings she addressed issues at once more partisan and more global than those she had covered inside the United States, including the political condition of Italy as a subject state under Austrian imperial control, and as an object of ridicule by many American observers, and the condition of American slavery. Italian peoples and slaves, in her mind, were, like women, oppressed by a transatlantic patriarchy whose prejudices allowed only for white males to enjoy political independence. Fuller called for American support for the Roman republic, but her sympathies did not reflect the thrust of American opinion. Many Americans did not believe Italians were capable of maintaining republican self-government, which was different, they alleged, from their own version, part of the inheritance of the American Revolution. That heritage conferred a unique American revolutionary 'exceptionalism'. For these Americans, the 1848 revolutions provided evidence that Europe was impulsive, reactionary and flawed; they saw in them confirmation of the superiority of American race relations and democratic society. After her death in 1850, the American Civil War would confirm Fuller's implicit sense that the United States and Europe were more alike than many Americans of her generation believed or realized. Her critique of American attitudes to the prospect for democracy in Italy provides perspective on the ambiguity of American global leadership today.Item Open Access North Korean military proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling violence and instability(Routledge, 2022-05-22) Kubat, Muhammed CihadItem Open Access Restorationist counter-enlightenment : Thomas M'Crie on the concept of civil liberty(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2014) Durgun, FatihEnlightenment notions for Counter Enlightenment purposes have not to date been used to provide a comprehensive context for Scottish religious history writing in the age of Counter Revolution and Restoration. The Evangelical historian and divine Thomas M'Crie's studies on Scottish Reformation history, Life of John Knox and Life of Andrew Melville, published in 1811 and 1819 respectively, exhibit an abundance of historiographical material for research. M'Crie was among the most renowned writers of his own time, but his historical works have been briefly passed over in recent secondary sources. The main purpose of this study is to rescue M'Crie's historical works on the Scottish Reformation past from near oblivion. This article argues that M'Crie produced an apology for the Scottish Reformation, adopting an aggressive style that attacked Scottish Enlightenment historians and thinkers such as William Robertson and David Hume, especially in the matter of their treatment of John Knox and Andrew Melville. M'Crie tried to restore his chosen past in order to influence the religious and political affairs of Scotland. In M'Crie's Counter Enlightenment historiography, the concept of civil liberty and Presbyterianism become interchangeable in a Restorationist religio political discourse. That is why M'Crie's enthusiasm for the Scottish Reformation constitutes the most representative example of the Presbyterian interpretation, which held its own against Enlightenment influence.Item Open Access Shields of the republic: the triumph and peril of America’s alliances(Routledge, 2021-04-02) Weisbrode, Kenneth