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The Kingdom of León-Castilla Under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157

By: Bernard F. Reilly

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The Kingdom of León-Castilla Under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157

By: Bernard F. Reilly

The reign of Alfonso VII occupied more than a quarter century during which the political landscape of medieval Spain was altered significantly. It was marked by the enhancement of royal administration, an increased papal intervention in the affairs of the peninsular church, and the development of the church's territorial structure. With the publication of The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla Under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157, Bernard Reilly completes a detailed, three-part history of the largest of the Christian states of the Iberian peninsula from the mid-eleventh through the mid-twelfth century. Like his earlier books on the reigns of Queen Urraca and King Alfonso VI, this will no doubt be an essential resource for all students of European and Spanish history and to anyone investigating the antecedents of Castile's eventual preeminence in Iberian affairs.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512806129

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Salem Story

Reading the Witch Trials of 1692

By: Bernard Rosenthal

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Salem Story

Reading the Witch Trials of 1692

By: Bernard Rosenthal

Salem Story engages the story of the Salem witch trials by contrasting an analysis of the surviving primary documentation with the way events of 1692 have been mythologised by our culture. Resisting the temptation to explain the Salem witch trials in the context of an inclusive theoretical framework, the book examines a variety of individual motives that converged to precipitate the witch-hunt. Of the many assumptions about the Salem witch trials, the most persistent is that they were instigated by a circle of hysterical girls. Through an analysis of what actually happened - by perusal of the primary materials with the 'close reading' approach of a literary critic - a different picture emerges, one where 'hysteria' inappropriately describes the logical, rational strategies of accusation and confession followed by the accusers, males and females alike.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521558204

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9780521558204

The Late Medieval English Church

Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome

By: G.W. Bernard

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The Late Medieval English Church

Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome

By: G.W. Bernard

The later medieval English church is invariably viewed through the lens of the Reformation that transformed it. But in this bold and provocative book historian George Bernard examines it on its own terms, revealing a church with vibrant faith and great energy, but also with weaknesses that reforming bishops worked to overcome. Bernard emphasizes royal control over the church. He examines the challenges facing bishops and clergy, and assesses the depth of lay knowledge and understanding of the teachings of the church, highlighting the practice of pilgrimage. He reconsiders anti-clerical sentiment and the extent and significance of heresy. He shows that the Reformation was not inevitable: the late medieval church was much too full of vitality. But Bernard also argues that alongside that vitality, and often closely linked to it, were vulnerabilities that made the break with Rome and the dissolution of the monasteries possible. The result is a thought-provoking study of a church and society in transformation.

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Yale University Press

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0300179979

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9780300179972

Boston's Cardinal

Bernard Law, the Man and His Witness

By: Bernard F. Law

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Boston's Cardinal

Bernard Law, the Man and His Witness

By: Bernard F. Law

Boston's Cardinal, a portrait of one of the most respected and influential leaders of the Catholic Church, provides a unique view of the Church in the modern world. Ever since the 1960s, when he spoke out courageously for racial justice as a young priest in Mississippi, Bernard Law has witnessed and participated in many of the struggles and events that have shaped American and Church history. An unusual childhood spent mainly in Latin America and the Caribbean prepared him for a vocation that has been marked from the beginning by outreach across racial, religious, and national boundaries. A gifted writer, Law recorded his reflections in the columns, speeches, and homilies that are assembled here. The book thus provides valuable insight into the man whom many consider to be the quintessential post-Vatican II bishop and into the role of the Catholic hierarchy in a time of social, political, and ecclesiastical turbulence. With the growing salience of religion in American public life, these writings on such topics as 'being Catholic and American, ' the Gulf War, urban violence, Northern Ireland, relations with Cuba, welfare, and affordable housing will be of interest to all who are concerned with advancing religiously grounded moral viewpoints in a pluralistic society.

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Lexington Books

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0739103415

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9780739103418

Conceptual Graphs for Knowledge Representation

First International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'93, Quebec City, Canada, August 4-7, 1993. Proceedings

By: Guy W. Mineau,Bernard Moulin

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Conceptual Graphs for Knowledge Representation

First International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'93, Quebec City, Canada, August 4-7, 1993. Proceedings

By: Guy W. Mineau,Bernard Moulin

Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science are the two fields devoted to the study and development of knowledge-based systems (KBS). Over the past 25years, researchers have proposed several approaches for modeling knowledge in KBS, including several kinds of formalism such as semantic networks, frames, and logics. In the early 1980s, J.F. Sowa introduced the conceptual graph (CG) theory which provides a knowledge representation framework consisting of a form of logic with a graph notationand integrating several features from semantic net and frame representations. Since that time, several research teams over the world have been working on the application and extension of CG theory in various domains ranging from natural language processing to database modeling and machine learning. This volume contains selected papers fromthe international conference on Conceptual Structures held in the city of Quebec, Canada, August 4-7, 1993. The volume opens with invited papers by J.F. Sowa, B.R. Gaines, and J. Barwise.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540569790

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9783540569794

Enter Rumour

Four Early Victorian Scandals

By: Robert Bernard

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Enter Rumour

Four Early Victorian Scandals

By: Robert Bernard

The common perception of Britain's Victorian era as one of strict and strait-laced conformity has long been subject to rebuttal, and Robert Bernard Martin's Enter Rumour (1962) was an early and distinguished endeavour in this line. Herein Martin weighs the evidence of four scandalous incidents that aroused great public interest during the first dozen years of Victoria's reign, each of them emanating from 'what the Victorians might have called the higher orders of society.' Martin recounts the sorry tale of Lady Flora Hastings, victim of Court gossip; Lord Eglinton, who tried and failed to revive the medieval tournament; the strange case of the St Cross Hospital Charity; and George Hudson, 'Railway King', whose rise and fall remains a story for our times. Martin examines sources expertly and further explores how three of these scandals were transformed into fiction - by none less than Dickens, Disraeli and Trollope.

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Faber & Faber

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0571287859

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9780571287857

León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I

By: Bernard F. Reilly,Simon R. Doubleday

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León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I

By: Bernard F. Reilly,Simon R. Doubleday

Acclaimed historians Bernard F. Reilly and Simon R. Doubleday tell the story of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I, who together ruled the territories of León and Galicia between 1038 and 1065—often regarded as a period in which Christian kings and their vassals asserted themselves more successfully in the face of external rivals, both Viking and Muslim. The reality was more complex. The Iberian Peninsula remained a space of multiple, intertwined forms of power and surprisingly nuanced relationships between—and among—the diverse configurations of Christian and Muslim authority. Some of these complexities would be obscured by later generations of medieval chroniclers, whose narratives focused on the singular authority of the king and expressed a more binary view of interreligious relations. Through their account of the key events and turning points of Sancha and Fernando’s reign, Reilly and Doubleday propose a revised understanding of its political culture, offering a corrective to accounts that have emphasized a stark opposition between Christian and Muslim powers, a supposedly steady growth and centralization of royal government, and the individual figure of the monarch. Exploring the interplay of crown and elites, underscoring the role of royal women, and rejecting the Reconquista paradigm, León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I reenvisions medieval Iberia at a pivotal stage in European history.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512824631

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9781512824636

Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States

By: Bernard Hamilton,Andrew Jotischky

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Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States

By: Bernard Hamilton,Andrew Jotischky

The first comprehensive survey of monasteries and monasticism in the Near East during the 'Crusader' period.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521836387

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9780521836388

Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe

By: Bernard S. Bachrach

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Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe

By: Bernard S. Bachrach

Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe was first published in 1977. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This is the first study of early medieval Jewish policy in the West which examines the nature of this policy from the perspective and aims of its formulators. As the author points out, most specialists in Jewish history have been dominated by what the historian Salo Baron has called the "lachrymose conception,' a view which emphasized persecution and suffering as a fundamental theme of Jewish history. Professor Bachrach challenges this view and attacks what he calls the myth of Christian church domination of the early medieval world.

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1452909776

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The Kingdom of León-Castilla Under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157

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Salem Story

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León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando I

Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States

Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States

Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe

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