Historical Study & Educational Resources
epub |eng | | Author:Catalina Balmaceda [Catalina Balmaceda]

THE RECORD OF VIRTUS in Velleius’ Historiae could be seen as an answer to that of previous historians. For Sallust and, to a certain extent, Livy, virtus in Rome had ...
( Category: Historiography May 28,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alain Bresson [Alain Bresson]

Thus these merchants are so eager for grain that when they learn that there is a great deal of it somewhere, they hasten to the spot, crossing the Aegean, the ...
( Category: Economic Conditions May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sasan Samiei [Sasan Samiei]

[It] is the study of historical thinking: not only the psychological analysis of its actual procedure, but the analysis of the ideal which it sets before itself. Historical thought is ...
( Category: Historiography May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kaldellis, Anthony

SCHOLIAST 5 In the later thirteenth or, more likely, early fourteenth century, a reader of the ms. wrote a poem in it about the murderous unions of Queen Semiramis.43 5.1 ...
( Category: Historiography May 27,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:James H. Johnson

The “beautiful order” of a population aligned in ranks, from kings down to slaves, is immaculately preserved in Gozzi’s fables, whose stratification extends to character and speech. Nobles exhibit magnanimous ...
mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Colley, Linda [Colley, Linda]

prisoners-of-war in France, than there were countrymen of his in jail in Britain. This may have been no more than a propaganda ploy, a transparent attempt to encourage British ministers ...
( Category: Human Geography May 27,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2018-12-17 | Author:Jennifer S. Dawson

It should be noted that it was under Pokrovka that women were buried first, placing them in the center of the pit. This indicates a true matriarchal society, when women ...
( Category: Essays May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-04-10 | Author:Mortimer, Ian [Mortimer, Ian]

8 Where to Stay The practicalities of finding accommodation vary from age to age. One of the problems of the Restoration period is the sheer number of people on the ...
azw3 |eng | 2018-10-29 | Author:Goodman, Ruth [Goodman, Ruth]

All Tooled Up and Ready for Action Learning to fight and handle weapons was part of most men’s youth at all levels of society, backed up by a patriotic and ...
azw3 |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Ibrahim, Raymond [Ibrahim, Raymond]

To keep the Christians in their place it did not suffice to surround them with a zone of famine and destruction. It was necessary also to go and sow terror ...
( Category: Islam May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-05 | Author:Smail, Daniel Lord [Smail, Daniel Lord]

Expenses associated with a predation of 6 lire 10 soldi in coin, Lucca, August 133879 For the datia, 1 soldo 4 denari For the crier-sergeant’s travel expenses (via nunptii), 1 ...
( Category: Economic History May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Linda E. Mitchell

Document 1: The Parliament Held at Oxford, June 1258 As the feast of St. Barnabas [June 11, 1258] drew near, the magnates and nobles of the country hastened to the ...
azw3 |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Waterfield, Robin [Waterfield, Robin]

THE END OF THE ARGEADS There was still a major obstacle to the Successors’ increasingly obvious ambitions. The Peace of the Dynasts had proclaimed, as had all previous general agreements, ...
azw3 |eng | 2018-12-16 | Author:Dawson, Jennifer S. [Dawson, Jennifer S.]

It should be noted that it was under Pokrovka that women were buried first, placing them in the center of the pit. This indicates a true matriarchal society, when women ...
( Category: Essays May 27,2019 )