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Leo (Paperback)
Edward Dutton Cook
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R511
Discovery Miles 5 110
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Leo (Paperback)
Edward Dutton Cook
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R472
Discovery Miles 4 720
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Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case
studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence
that leads to broader conclusions about  medieval history and
the way we do and understand history in general. Paul Dutton
provides an overview of microhistorical approaches and theorizes
about its use in pre-modern history. As opposed to studying history
“from above†or history “from below,†Dutton shows the
advantages for historians of doing history “from the inside
out,†starting from some single, overlooked, but potentially
knowable thing, delving deep inside, and then reattaching it to its
time and place. Such an approach has one abiding advantage: its
insistence on being grounded in the particularity of the evidence.
The book highlights what the microhistorical is, its conceptual and
practical challenges. Dutton argues that the attention to the micro
has always been with us and is a constitutive, cognitive part of
who we are as human beings.
How does university turn students into who they become? Why are
student evangelicals such a significant and controversial force at
so many universities? In many countries, university has become the
main Rite of Passage between the child and adult worlds. University
can be enjoyable and fascinating but also life-changing and
traumatic. And at the exact time when a student's identity is the
most challenged and uncertain, student evangelical groups are
highly organised on many university campuses to offer students a
powerful identity so that the world makes sense once again. For
some, these groups will protect them from the university's assault
on their faith. For others, they will challenge and even change who
they are. Meeting Jesus at University explores universities in six
countries. Drawing upon detailed fieldwork, it examines the largest
student evangelical group at each university in order to understand
in depth the relationship between the student evangelical group and
the university which it aims to convert. Meeting Jesus at
University offers an original contribution to the discussion of
Rites of Passage, examining what is experienced at university and
how university breaks down and remoulds young people. It explores
why student evangelicals are so active, particularly at Britain and
America's most prestigious and identity-challenging institutions
meaning that students at these places are the most likely to find
themselves meeting Jesus at university.
How does university turn students into who they become? Why are
student evangelicals such a significant and controversial force at
so many universities? In many countries, university has become the
main Rite of Passage between the child and adult worlds. University
can be enjoyable and fascinating but also life-changing and
traumatic. And at the exact time when a student's identity is the
most challenged and uncertain, student evangelical groups are
highly organised on many university campuses to offer students a
powerful identity so that the world makes sense once again. For
some, these groups will protect them from the university's assault
on their faith. For others, they will challenge and even change who
they are. Meeting Jesus at University explores universities in six
countries. Drawing upon detailed fieldwork, it examines the largest
student evangelical group at each university in order to understand
in depth the relationship between the student evangelical group and
the university which it aims to convert. Meeting Jesus at
University offers an original contribution to the discussion of
Rites of Passage, examining what is experienced at university and
how university breaks down and remoulds young people. It explores
why student evangelicals are so active, particularly at Britain and
America's most prestigious and identity-challenging institutions
meaning that students at these places are the most likely to find
themselves meeting Jesus at university.
Since the 1960s, the West has moved ever-leftwards. 'Equality' and
'feelings' are central to the New Religion that rejects all
traditional values. Yet beneath the institutionally dominant 'Left'
stews a growing and restless 'Right'. How has this fractured
situation come about? What will the future hold? In The Past is a
Future Country, the authors trace it back to the Industrial
Revolution. Darwinian selection massively weakened, meaning that,
for the first time in history, the selfish, sick and stupid could
survive and reproduce, undermining our religious, group-oriented
culture. Now the West is scourged by an epidemic of narcissists,
competing to signal their individuality and moral superiority. But
their 'fight for equality' is really a fight for self-promotion.
Reflecting this runaway individualism, Westerners increasingly
don't have children, save for those who are genetically resistant
to this onslaught - the staunchly conservative and religious: the
eventual inheritors of the earth. But there is a dark storm brewing
in the demographic data that the authors have analysed. There is a
burgeoning growth in the population of exceptionally unintelligent
and antisocial people that social welfare systems cannot sustain
for much longer. The developed world will pass away, and the global
population that depends on it will crash, in the greatest
Malthusian Collapse of all time. Yet all is not lost. The authors
show how a resistant class of intelligent, religious conservatives
will band together to preserve enclaves of civilization that may
survive most of the coming apocalypse, and from its ashes rebuild a
new world: A Neo-Byzantium.
Geniuses are rare and exceptional people. The majority of the great
ideas, discoveries and inventions of human history, which have
allowed the development of civilization itself, were the products
of geniuses. A genius combines extremely high intelligence with a
unworldly, intuitive personality. Geniuses will seldom fit-into
normal society, they will seldom want to. And we shouldn't want
them to, because it is their unusual and socially-difficult nature
which drives geniuses to come up with original ideas, and solutions
to otherwise unsolvable problems. But modern society has been hit
by a genius famine. There are ever-fewer geniuses and, to make
matters worse, modern society has become actively hostile to those
few geniuses we still have. The Genius Famine explores the nature
of genius, why the genius famine has happened, how the famine will
lead to the decline of civilization, and what we can and should do
to overcome it.
The period between 770 and 880 experienced an explosion of words
signalling the documentary reawakening of Western civilization;
this anthology offers a plentiful and engaging selection of primary
source documents from that vibrant era.
Among the material new to this second edition are Rimbert's
"Life of Anskar," with its detailed account of the Carolingian
missionary contact with Scandinavia, Ratramnus's study of the
dog-headed men, the monk Bernard's "Journey to Jerusalem," new
specimens of popular beliefs, Audradus Modicus's complete "Book of
Revelations," and new maps and illustrations.
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