early modern history
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Genocide in the Middle Ages from magistra 902 days old
Disclaimer: the following post discusses genocide as a historical problem. It is not intended to discuss the morality of genocide, which I regard as ...
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Was the Reformation inevitable? from magistra 1012 days old
I’ve been reading up on late medieval religion for a seminar I’m giving and for the first time read Eamon Duffy’s The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional ...
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Bourgeois values and modern capitalism from magistra 1173 days old
September’s History Today magazine has a very bad article by someone called Deirdre McCloskey ‘The Discreet Virtue of the Bourgeoisie’ (http://www.historytoday.com/dt_main_allatonce.asp?gid=31807&aid=&tgid=&amid=30233439&g31807=x&g31800=x&g30026=x&g20991=x&g21010=x&g19965=x&g19963=x) ...
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Cuckolds and masculinity from magistra 1354 days old
I’ve been working again on an article I’m writing on ninth century marriage disputes. One of these concerns the effect of new rules on indissoluble marriage ...
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The Enlightenment versus Christianity from magistra 1361 days old
The Enlightenment didn’t start out being against all religion (though it was always anti-Catholic). Some of its exponents were Anglicans, including William ...
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Why I am not enlightened from magistra 1363 days old
I’ve just finished reading Roy Porter, Enlightenment: Britain and the creation of the modern world (Penguin, 2000), which is a remarkable blend of erudition ...
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The end of end times? from magistra 1386 days old
I’ve been trying to brush up on my minimal knowledge of the (British) Civil War and among other things have been reading Christopher Hill, Puritanism ...
