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Bede And The Rewriting Of Sanctity, Sally Shockro
Bede And The Rewriting Of Sanctity, Sally Shockro
History Faculty Publications
Bede's use and revision of the anonymous Life of St Cuthbert and the redeployment of patristic texts in later continental and Anglo-Saxon ascetic and hagiographical texts.
Girls' Secondary Education In The Western World: From The 18th To The 20th Century (Book Review), Christopher Bischof
Girls' Secondary Education In The Western World: From The 18th To The 20th Century (Book Review), Christopher Bischof
History Faculty Publications
This edited collection traces the development of girls’ secondary education over three centuries in a way that highlights national peculiarities without losing sight of ideas and debates that cut across borders. Contributors follow very similar formats, exploring historiography and key themes: religion, coeducation, the ideal of domestic motherhood, and politics. The greatest single overarching theme is what the editors describe as “the dialectic between education as a conservative force and as a force for change as expressed in both democratic and authoritarian political agendas across Europe” (p. 2). Political battleground that it was, however, there emerges from the essays as …
Educating Women: Schooling And Identity In England And France, 1800-1867 (Book Review), Christopher Bischof
Educating Women: Schooling And Identity In England And France, 1800-1867 (Book Review), Christopher Bischof
History Faculty Publications
Christina de Bellaigue’s Educating Women: Schooling and Identity in England and France, 1800-1867 explores stereotypes about women’s boarding schools on both sides of the English-French Channel. In the process de Bellaigue identifies the basis in reality which many of the most widespread stereotypes had, including: the socially grasping schoolmistress; the schoolmistress as a gentlewoman fallen on hard times; the short-lived nature of many schools; the stress laid on the teaching of “accomplishments”; and the idea that preparing women for their domestic role was the ultimate goal of an education. However, she also simultaneously undermines these stereotypes by supplying nuance and …
(Review) Ladder Of Shadows: Reflecting On Medieval Vestige In Provence And Languedoc, Frederick S. Paxton
(Review) Ladder Of Shadows: Reflecting On Medieval Vestige In Provence And Languedoc, Frederick S. Paxton
History Faculty Publications
The article reviews the book "Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in Provence and Languedoc," by Gustav Sobin, 236 p., Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2009. Series: An Ahmanson Foundation Book in the Humanities.
(Review) Witchcraft And The Papacy: An Account Drawing On The Formerly Secret Records Of The Roman Inquisition, Marc R. Forster
(Review) Witchcraft And The Papacy: An Account Drawing On The Formerly Secret Records Of The Roman Inquisition, Marc R. Forster
History Faculty Publications
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