All aspects of the writing of history and ancillary disciplines.
Rita Singer deposited Liberating Britain from Foreign Bondage: A Welsh Revision of the Wars of the Roses in L. M. Spooner’s Gladys of Harlech; or, The Sacrifice (1858) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 weeks ago
In the ten years following the publication of the infamous Reports on the State of Education in Wales (1847) that had classified the Welsh population as a vice-ridden nation of working-class drunkards and promiscuous hoydens, the middle-classes in Wales strongly rejected this Anglo-centric condemnation at first in the press and, later on, in…[Read more]
Paul Michael Kurtz deposited The Spirit of Jewish Poetry: Why Biblical Studies Has Forgotten Duhm’s Psalter Commentary in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week ago
This essay addresses the generation and perpetuation of interpretative modalities in academic communities. It tells a story of curbed reception on account of theological interference. In the end, Duhm interpreted the Psalms as a product of Jewish communities under the Seleucids, Hasmoneans, and Romans. This inquiry argues the historicist…[Read more]
Rita Singer deposited How Gothic Was My U-Boat: The Welsh Press and German Submarine Warfare in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
In an article that exposes the roots of Brexit-era Germanophobia, Rita Singer details how Welsh press coverage and poetry about U-Boat attacks on Welsh ships evolved into racialised depictions of German U-Boat combatants as ‘Huns’, monsters, ghouls and Satanic fiends
Juuso Tervo deposited Decolonizing Dirty Words: Research and Radical Creativity in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
This paper was presented as part of an online symposium titled “Research as a Radical Act of Creativity” organized by the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University. As a response to “radical creativity” – one of the current cross-cutting, strategic themes of Aalto University – the paper addresses the need to learn from dec…[Read more]
Maciej Junkiert deposited Recepcja spartańskiej historii w pierwszych dekadach XIX wieku. Perspektywa polska: Groddeck – Lelewel ‒ Mickiewicz in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Over the last four decades of the 18th century, the image of Sparta began to include a few characteristic elements that later became an important point of reference for 19th-century writers, philosophers and historians. Issues of Spartan equality of citizens, fully responsible for their country, and also soldierly honour and Sparta’s military c…[Read more]
Miklos Mezosi deposited A „Borisz Godunov-szüzsé”: történet( és )írás Az autoritatív elbeszéléstől a művészi szkepszisig: Karamzin, Puskin és Muszorgszkij feldolgozásai in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Az orosz történetírásban hagyományosan szmutá-nak, “zavaros időszaknak” nevezett évtizedek három legmarkánsabb, művészi szempontból a legerőteljesebb feldolgozásának mindegyike különböző szemléletet és műfajt képvisel, ám egy dologban egyek: a kérdéses időszak adekvát elbeszélésére illetőleg megjelenítésére Borisz Godunov cár uralkodói pályáj…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Radical Lumpers (Sobre las diferencias raciales) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
English abstract: A paper arguing the relevance of a cognitive narratological perspective and a retrospective stance attentive to hindsight bias in order to clarify the debate on racial differences and population diversity in biology. The issue is discussed with reference to the dichotomy between ‘lumpers’ and ‘splitters’ in paleoanthropology as…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited El pasado retroactivo: Recordando, olvidando, retocando la guerra y la paz in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks ago
España tiene una relación traumática con su guerra civil. Del franquismo ni hablamos: es para el discurso oficial del régimen político actual la personificación abyecta del mal, y esa versión oficial es defendida por el actual gobierno izquierdista como la única verdadera y aspira a ser impuesta como la única autorizada. En 2020, y con Franco y…[Read more]
Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited Mixed Marriages, Moorish Vices and Military Betrayals: Christian-Islamic Confluence in Count Pedro’s Book of Lineages in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
This article deals with representations of Christian-Islamic confluence in the medieval Portuguese genealogical compilation known as Livro de Linhagens do Conde D. Pedro (Count Pedro’s Book of Lineages), assembled in the mid-fourteenth century by Count Pedro of Barcelos. Several narratives dealing with the non-military interaction of Christians a…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Katyn y más horrores in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 months, 1 week ago
Spanish abstract: La película histórica de Andrzej Wajda sobre la matanza de Katyn da una imagen tremenda de los totalitarismos del siglo XX, de los horrores políticos y morales de las dictaduras comunistas en la URSS y en Polonia. Retrata memorablemente las circunstancias que llevan a la gente bien a doblegar su voluntad y su conciencia, o bi…[Read more]
Maciej Junkiert deposited Grecja i jej historia w twórczości Cypriana Norwida in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The book is dedicated to the presence of Greek history in the works of Cyprian Norwid. According to the poet, the Greek origins contributed to the creation of mechanisms that make it possible to diagnose the spiritual condition of the contemporary times through analyzing its relation to the Greek myth of the “Golden Age”. Ideologization of the way…[Read more]
Maciej Junkiert deposited The Polish History of Literature as a Lieu de Mémoire in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The article contains an analysis of the genealogy of 19th-century Polish research in the field of literary history. My inquiry contains a comparison between literary research in Germany and in Poland. From this point of view, literary history was an important factor in the process of building a modern nation. Furthermore, literary historians also…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Cada cual su Holocausto: La ‘metáfora del Holocausto’ in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Spanish abstract: Notas, debates y comentarios con ocasión del congreso The “Holocaust Metaphor” (La ́Metáfora del Holocausto ́), en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Zaragoza (a finales de mayo de 2013). _________________________________________________________________________
English abstract: Notes, debates and comm…[Read more]
Froilán Ramos R. deposited La inmigración en la Administración de Pérez Jiménez (1952-1958) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
country, due to two reasons: one, the high growth of the economy determined by high oil revenues, two, the lack of
This article analyzes the immigration policy of the Venezuelan State during administration of Pérez Jiménez (1952-1958). From December 1952 until January 1958, Marcos Pérez Jiménez governs Venezuela, first as interim president (un…[Read more]Froilán Ramos R. deposited La Historia de los portugueses en Venezuela (1959), de Miguel Acosta Saignes in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The following historiographical study is referred to the History of the Portuguese in Venezuela (1959), by Miguel Acosta Saignes, it hill analyze the work of critical and reflective way, both internally and externally, to elucidate its contribution to one of the process greatest historic modern Venezuela, such as immigration, as well as…[Read more]
Froilán Ramos R. deposited Ildefonso Riera Aguinagalde o la controversia de las ideas in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
This paper analyzes the public life of Ildefonso Riera Aguinagalde (1834-1882) as a writer and politician who participated in the vagaries of the construction of the national state in the Venezuela’s nineteenth century. Based on a systematic historiographical review and consultation of primary sources, the Riera Aguinagalde political action was r…[Read more]
Froilán Ramos R. deposited Huella de Hans-Georg Gadamer en Reinhart Koselleck. Aportes a la historia conceptual in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 8 months ago
This article analyses the influence of the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) on the conceptual history of Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006), as well as the intellectual relationship between them. In this sense, the main biographical features of both academics have been revised, and a re-examination of the ideas —of temporality and l…[Read more]
Froilán Ramos R. deposited Ideología e HIstorIografía. reflexIones sobre el comunIsmo en el sIglo xx. in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 8 months ago
This essay analyzes from the perspective of historical revisionism the Communism during the first half of the twentieth century, based on the specialized historiography. It is part of the analysis of Communism as an ideology, system and use of political violence and it is compared with Nazism. In both, Nazism and Communism, similar features are…[Read more]
Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History, Introduction, ch 3 in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
This book challenges an assumption at the heart of contemporary theoretical debates: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought “hide from history”: liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum and stru…[Read more]
Juuso Tervo deposited Art Education Historiography After Archive Fever in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
Responding to the title of the seminar, “Nordic Art Education in Motion,” and to its theme, “Digital competences and computational thinking: preparing children, young people and adults for a digitalized society,” I discuss the “archaic identity of change” (to draw from Etel Adnan) present in calls for motion and preparation. I conceptualize art…[Read more]
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