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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Fourth Crusade: How Internal Dynamics And Leadership Transitions Could Have Led To Its Diversion And Ultimate Failure, Tyler G. Grable
The Fourth Crusade: How Internal Dynamics And Leadership Transitions Could Have Led To Its Diversion And Ultimate Failure, Tyler G. Grable
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The Fourth Crusade, a war called to recapture Jerusalem, ended in disaster for the Christian city of Constantinople and the city of Jerusalem remained untouched by the crusading host. The fact that a war called to protect Christians in the Middle East and to recapture the city of Jerusalem for God resulted in the sacking of one of the largest Christian cities has led to much scholarly investigation into what exactly caused this to transpire. For the better part of a millennium scholars have sought answers to significant questions and have produced a variety of explanations for why the crusade …
Ordering The Urban Environment: City Statutes And City Planning In Medieval Todi, Italy, Samuel Gruber, Samuel D. Gruber
Ordering The Urban Environment: City Statutes And City Planning In Medieval Todi, Italy, Samuel Gruber, Samuel D. Gruber
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Presents examples of how legal system and city government action ordered the urban environment through regulations and actions for streets size and widths, building materials, size and appearance, and distribution of activities. As demonstrated in the medieval Umbrian town of Todi, such regulations helped create the image of the medieval town we appreciate today.
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Three), Gwen G. Robinson
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Three), Gwen G. Robinson
The Courier
This is the third in a series of articles on the past and future of punctuation. The years under focus here are crucial ones, for they include the invention of the printing press and the shift it caused in the human response to the written word.
Five Renaissance Chronicles In Leopold Von Ranke's Library, Raymond Paul Schrodt
Five Renaissance Chronicles In Leopold Von Ranke's Library, Raymond Paul Schrodt
The Courier
This article describes the chronicles of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance that are maintained at the von Ranke Library within the Syracuse University Special Collections. The chronicles are diverse in nature, in both languages used and content respresented, covering chronologies, myths, and historical events. Ironically, the chronicles lack the objectivity that von Ranke was so fervent about, but the author argues these chronicles should not be measured against later standards of critical history.
Henry Ii And Ganelon, Paul R. Hyams
Henry Ii And Ganelon, Paul R. Hyams
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)
Paul R. Hyams was educated at Oxford University and is now a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He is interested in the development of English law in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and is the author of King, Lords and Peasants in Medieval England: The Common Law of Vtfleinage in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980).
Four Centuries Of Holinshed's Chronicles (1577-1977), Vernon F. Snow
Four Centuries Of Holinshed's Chronicles (1577-1977), Vernon F. Snow
The Courier
The composite nature of the Holinshed's Chronicles is manifest in the first volume. It contains William Harrison's description of England followed by Holinshed's history of England prior to the Norman Conquest; then Harrison's description of Scotland; and then Richard Stanyhurst's description of Ireland, Holinshed's history of Ireland down to 1509, and finally Stanyhurst's continuation from 1509 to 1547. The work includes dedicatory epistles addressed to Lord Brooke, the Earl of Leicester, and Sir Henry Sidney, penned by Harrison, Holinshed, and Stanyhurst, respectively. The second volume encompassing the history of England from 1066 to the reign of Elizabeth—a narrative history patterned …