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Charlemagne, Different Biographical Perspectives

Charlemagne has been interpreted differently by different writers over the centuries. Those differences in interpretation are app...

La Religieuse by Denis Diderot

She pressed me in one place and then another. In a soft and low voice, she asked me to increase my efforts, and I did so." Again ...

U.S. History, Labor, and Equality Questions

who threatened the racial caste system for that matter (747). When threats failed to yield results, planters could call upon the p...

The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies

In six pages this landmark fifteenth century feminist text is analyzed in terms of how the author portrayed the connection between...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Destiny and Choice

In six pages 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'The Knight's Tale' are discussed in order to examine how the themes of destiny and cho...

John Demos' The Unredeemed Captive and Intercultural Relationships

In ten pages this paper examines intercultural relationships as featured in the text's portrayal of early 18th century Native Amer...

Spiritual Development in Historia Calamitatum by Abelard

Spiritual development in European religious orders during the 12th century are discussed in an overview of Historia Calamitatum by...

'Yvain, the Knight of the Lion' by Chretien de Troyes and Reciprocal Relationships

the time when the Christian movement was beginning to gain headway in England. Most of the rural areas were still pagan believing ...

Peasant Fires by Richard Wunderli

this conflict between the peasants and the landed gentry, as well as the church. Historically, what is significant about this b...

Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror

Crusades, insurrection, the Schism of the Church, and massacres of Jewish people were but part of the horrors of that century. Th...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano and Identity

or excited by his account because overall he states that "I believe there are few events in my life, which have not happened to ma...

Vassalage and Magna Carta and The Song Of Roland

power over the peasants in order to maintain the established hierarchy. By instituting yet a second person to enforce the code of...

O.J. Simpson, the Mass Media, and Technology

In four pages this paper examines how the mass media essentially deprived O.J. Simpson of a fair trial because of the global preju...

Witch Hunts and Their Decline

In four pages this research paper examines reasons why the European witch hunts were finally in decline around the late 17th and e...

Nineteenth Century German Gymnastics

In seven pages this paper examines how during the nineteenth century competitive gymnastics developoed in Germany in a discussion ...

Review of The Arts of China by Michael Sullivan

In four pages this book that chronicles the development and history of Chinese art from the ancient period to the 20th century is ...

Social and Domestic Abuse in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

-- and did his society support his right to do so? In order to answer this question, we need to look at the background of Chinese...

17th Century Women in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

was by no means typical of Chinese marital experience, the repressive conditions which made it possible were the cultural portion ...

Late Nineteenth Century Modern Art Transformation

In five pages this paper examines the transformation of nineteenth century art with the modernist contributions of artists like Ce...

Theologian John Duns Scotus' Life and Scholasticism School of Thought

In ten pages which also includes an outline of one page this theologian from the thirteenth century is considered in an overview o...

Virginia During the Eighteenth Century and the Contributions of African Americans

In three pages this paper discusses the African American importance to Virginia during the eighteenth century in an examination of...

Lilliput, Satire, and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...

Analysis of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott

In five pages this early 19th century historical fiction novel is analyzed in terms of the freedom struggles of the Covenanters ...

Scholarship and Christianity

In four pages George Marsden's inquiry into religion and scholarship as covered in the 'Exercise a Christian Intellect' by Tinder ...

Urban Politics and the Nation's First County Park

A ten page analysis of the creation of the first county park in nineteenth century Newark, New Jersey. The author contends that t...

Romantic Period Poets John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

pursued, his literary prose are filled with illusions that do not equate with realistic events, but rather, they conjure up sensat...

1820s Independence of El Salvador and Guatemala and the Causes of Economic and Political Instability

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the first century post independence El Salvador and Guatemala in a consideration of what cau...

Continuity between Judaism and Christianity

any connections to the Jewish faith or even that "Jesus himself was Jewish" (Sandmel 251). However, this situation was very diff...

Ainsworth/Attachment Theory

following discussion of attachment theory, which particularly focuses on the contributions of Ainsworth, offers an overview of it...