Pre Modern History
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Recent papers in Pre Modern History
Urbanization under the Republic and Empire took different forms and directions, implemented sometimes in the typical “Roman” way as in Augustodonum, Aosta and maritime colonies, while at other times it gradually mixed with existing urban... more
“Most cultural theorists saw network analysis as located squarely in the positivist camp, reducing cultural richness to 1s and 0s and lacking attention to processes of interpretation and meaning-construction.”; thus Ann Mische in 2011... more
The paper discusses the possible mint masters of Duke of Courland Gotthard Kettler in 1575-1579. Most probably, it was a Jew from Crakow Jakob Beer.
Modern philosophical spectators have often found fault with the ways in which miracles were received by the pre-modern peoples of Europe and the Mediterranean. Historians such as Gibbon and philosophers as various as Hume and Lessing... more
A kutatás a Nagykunság öt településének, Karcag, Kisújszállás, Kunmadaras, Kunhegyes, illetve Túrkeve Debrecenbe beiratkozott diákságát vizsgálja az 1588-tól 1850-ig terjedő időszakban. A földrajzi közelség, illetve a debreceni befolyás... more
Extended interview by N&N's Michael J. Kelly with Professor Björn Weiler for Networks and Neighbours 2.2 (2014) 'Cultural Capital'.
Inequality is often a presumed cause of heightened vulnerability towards natural hazards, leading to social disasters. Poverty, different levels of entitlements, the geographic location of households, different levels of political agency,... more
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course covers a great deal of material. In it, we will examine human history from the earliest times until the end of the fifteenth century. This is a very broad sweep of human life, covering an immense range of... more