Author: Bede JarrettPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714613277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Social Theories in the Middle Ages 1200-1500
Author: Bede JarrettPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714613277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Social Theories of the Middle Ages, 1200-1500
Author: Bede JarrettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Social Theories of the Middle Ages, 1200-1500
Author: Bede JarrettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
English Society in the Later Middle Ages
Author: S.H. RigbyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349239690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
What was the social structure of England in the period 1200 to 1500? What were the basic forms of social inequality? To what extent did such divisions generate social conflict? How significantly did English society change during this period and what were the causes of social change? Is it useful to see medieval social structure in terms of the theories and concepts produced within the medieval period itself? What does modern social theory have to offer the historian seeking to understand English society in the later middle ages? These are the questions which this book seeks to answer. Beginning with an analysis of class structure of medieval England, Part One of this book asks to what extent class conflict was inherent within class relations and discusses the contrasting successes and outcomes of such conflict in town and country. Part Two of the book examines to what extent such class divisions interacted with other forms of social inequality, such as those between orders (nobility and clergy), between men and women, and those arising from membership of a status-group (the Jews). Dr Rigby's discussion of medieval English society is located within the context of recent historical and sociological debates about the nature of social stratification and, using the work of social theorists such as Parkin and Runciman, offers a synthesis of the Marxist and Weberian approaches to social structure. The book should be extremely useful to those undergraduates beginning their studies of medieval England whilst, in offering a new interpretative framework within which to examine social structure, also interesting those historians who are more familiar with this period.
Social Theories of the Middle Ages
Author: Bede JarrettSocial Theories of the Middle Ages, 1200-1500
Author: father Bede JarrettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Mind of the Middle Ages
Author: Frederick B. ArtzPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022630812X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
"This is the third edition of a near standard survey of the intellectual life of the age of faith. Artz on the arts, as on philosophy, politics and other aspects of culture, makes lively and informative reading."—The Washington Post
Author: Civilian Victims in War
Author: Alan L. GreyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351528319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The status of the civilian today is that of a calculated casualty, to die immediately or after agonizing suffering. The civilian is also a hostage in the political power struggle, since his continued safety depends upon the decision or even impulse of his leaders. This is true if he is a citizen of a major power, or if he lives elsewhere in unstable social and political environments. Hartigan's book is a unique effort to deal with a mass, but hidden problem: the status of the civilian non-combatant in conditions of armed conflict.Civilian Victims in War fills the gaps in our knowledge of the origins of civilian immunity, so that a full evaluation of the principle's continued worth may be made. The book reviews the concepts of noncombatants, civilian immunity, how it arose from need and intuition and developed into legal practice. The volume focuses on the development of this concept in the Western tradition, not because civilian immunity was absent in Asia or Africa, but because its present formulation owes its origin and elaboration to European custom, practice, and thought.Civilian Victims in War is the first book to deal with the central theme of the innocent non-combatant. Hartigan seeks to pursue this subject in greater depth, and asks the intelligent layman to reconsider his or her options in the face of modern warfare. He touches on many subjects in this work which will spark interest with the general public and policy personnel, those who should recognize themselves as civilians and see this book as their tragic history.
A Social and Religious History of the Jews
Author: Salo Wittmayer BaronPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231088473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war and greed, empires and religions, and lessons for the future. Ciaran Regan looks at each class of drugs, describing the historical evolution of their use, explaining how they work within the brain's neurophysiology, and outlining the basic pharmacology of those substances. From a consideration of the effect of stimulants, such as caffeine and nicotine, and the reasons and consequences of their sudden popularity in the seventeenth century, the book moves to a discussion of more modern stimulants, such as cocaine and ecstasy. In addition, Regan explains how we process memory, the nature of thought disorders, and therapies for treating depression and schizophrenia. Regan then considers psychedelic drugs and their perceived mystical properties and traces the history of placebos to ancient civilizations. Finally, Intoxicating Minds considers the physical consequences of our co-evolution with drugs -- how they have altered our very being -- and offers a glimpse of the brave new world of drug therapies.