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The series Prinz-Albert-Forschungen (Prince Albert Research
Publications) publishes sources and studies concerning Anglo-German
history. It includes outstanding works in German and English which
significantly enhance or modify our understanding of Anglo-German
relations. These are supplemented by critically edited sources
designed to offer access to previously unknown documents of crucial
importance to the Anglo-German relationship.
The series Prinz-Albert-Forschungen (Prince Albert Research
Publications) publishes sources and studies concerning Anglo-German
history. It includes outstanding works in German and English which
significantly enhance or modify our understanding of Anglo-German
relations. These are supplemented by critically edited sources
designed to offer access to previously unknown documents of crucial
importance to the Anglo-German relationship.
The German comparative philologist Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900)
was one of the most influential scholars in Victorian Britain.
Muller travelled to Britain in 1846 in order to prepare a
translation of the Rig Veda. This research visit would turn into a
lifelong stay after Muller was appointed as Taylor Professor of
Modern Languages at Oxford in 1854. Muller's activities in this
position would exert a profound influence on British intellectual
life during the second half of the nineteenth-century: his
book-length essay on Comparative Mythology (1856) inspired
evolutionist thinkers such as Herbert Spencer and Edward Burnett
Tylor and made philology into one of the master sciences at
mid-century; his debates with Charles Darwin and his followers on
the origin of language constituted a significant component of
religiously informed reactions to Darwin's ideas about human
descent; his arguments concerning the interdependence of language
and thought influenced fields such as psychology, neurology,
paediatrics and education until the end of the nineteenth century;
his theories concerning an 'Aryan' language that purportedly
predated Sanskrit and ancient Greek led to controversial debates on
the relations between language, religion and race in the Indian
subcontinent and beyond; and his monumental 50-volume edition of
the Sacred Books of the East helped to lay the foundations for the
study of comparative religion. Muller's interlocutors and readers
included people as various as Alexander von Humboldt, Darwin,
George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ferdinand de
Saussure, Ernst Cassirer, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jarwaharlal Nehru.
This volume offers the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary
assessment of Muller's career to date. Arising from a conference
held at the German Historical Institute in London in 2015, it
brings together papers by an international group of experts in
German studies, German and British history, linguistics,
philosophy, English literary studies, and religious studies in
order to examine the many facets of Muller's scholarship. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the Publications of
the English Goethe Society.
The German comparative philologist Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900)
was one of the most influential scholars in Victorian Britain.
Muller travelled to Britain in 1846 in order to prepare a
translation of the Rig Veda. This research visit would turn into a
lifelong stay after Muller was appointed as Taylor Professor of
Modern Languages at Oxford in 1854. Muller's activities in this
position would exert a profound influence on British intellectual
life during the second half of the nineteenth-century: his
book-length essay on Comparative Mythology (1856) inspired
evolutionist thinkers such as Herbert Spencer and Edward Burnett
Tylor and made philology into one of the master sciences at
mid-century; his debates with Charles Darwin and his followers on
the origin of language constituted a significant component of
religiously informed reactions to Darwin's ideas about human
descent; his arguments concerning the interdependence of language
and thought influenced fields such as psychology, neurology,
paediatrics and education until the end of the nineteenth century;
his theories concerning an 'Aryan' language that purportedly
predated Sanskrit and ancient Greek led to controversial debates on
the relations between language, religion and race in the Indian
subcontinent and beyond; and his monumental 50-volume edition of
the Sacred Books of the East helped to lay the foundations for the
study of comparative religion. Muller's interlocutors and readers
included people as various as Alexander von Humboldt, Darwin,
George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ferdinand de
Saussure, Ernst Cassirer, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jarwaharlal Nehru.
This volume offers the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary
assessment of Muller's career to date. Arising from a conference
held at the German Historical Institute in London in 2015, it
brings together papers by an international group of experts in
German studies, German and British history, linguistics,
philosophy, English literary studies, and religious studies in
order to examine the many facets of Muller's scholarship. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the Publications of
the English Goethe Society.
This engaging book provides a gateway to larger themes in modern
British history through a set of fascinating portraits of
individuals that explore important events and movements from the
perspective of the people involved. Political developments are
illuminated through chapters on John Locke, Charles Townshend,
popular radicalism, and Margaret Thatcher. Religion and education
are considered through essays on evangelicalism, the Oxford
Movement, Charles Bradlaugh, and Sir James Kay Shuttleworth.
Industrial and imperial questions are explored through pieces on
the Great Exhibition, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and
post-colonial Nigeria. National identity and wartime experience
come to life in the lives of G. K. Chesterton and of Barbara Nixon,
an Airraid Warden during the Blitz. Many of the chapters examine
the experiences of women, including single women in early modern
England, suffragettes, and Irish nationalist Mary Butler. As a rich
and humanized approach to history, this book offers readers a
deeper understanding of key facets of British life in the early
modern and modern periods.
This engaging book provides a gateway to larger themes in modern
British history through a set of fascinating portraits of
individuals that explore important events and movements from the
perspective of the people involved. Political developments are
illuminated through chapters on John Locke, Charles Townshend,
popular radicalism, and Margaret Thatcher. Religion and education
are considered through essays on evangelicalism, the Oxford
Movement, Charles Bradlaugh, and Sir James Kay Shuttleworth.
Industrial and imperial questions are explored through pieces on
the Great Exhibition, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and
post-colonial Nigeria. National identity and wartime experience
come to life in the lives of G. K. Chesterton and of Barbara Nixon,
an Airraid Warden during the Blitz. Many of the chapters examine
the experiences of women, including single women in early modern
England, suffragettes, and Irish nationalist Mary Butler. As a rich
and humanized approach to history, this book offers readers a
deeper understanding of key facets of British life in the early
modern and modern periods.
Of all the parts of the world to interest the Victorians, Germany
was among the most important. Though less well known today, partly
in consequence of the events of the twentieth century, German
influences in Britain were strong, and their legacy substantial.
This book charts the emergence, development and course of the
Victorian interest in Germany. Its multidisciplinary approach,
which binds together for the first time the latest research
conducted in a variety of areas, shows how a discourse developed in
Britain regarding Germany and the Germans which spilled over from
one area of life to another, and included some of the most
prominent figures in Victorian life. It provides a framework for
understanding the causes of the Victorian fascination with Germany,
and argues forcefully that the roots of this lay in the processes
of modernisation taking place in each place respectively. It also
points to the deep impact this had upon the course of British
history and reveals how it prepared the ground for the future
direction of Anglo-German relations.
Since the 19th century (at the latest), concern about the ability
of ones own industry to compete was frequently the object of
mournful glances at ones own weaknesses and the strengths of
others. Using the examples of British and German debates from the
recent past, this volume examines the success and failure of
different strategies, from measures to increase individual
motivation right up to the big reform projects such as
"Thatcherism."
Band 25 der Reihe dokumentiert die Beitrage der Tagung "Geteilter
Nachlass - Gemeinsames Erbe. Eine Dynastie und ihre Sammlungen in
Windsor und Coburg", die 2006 in Coburg stattfand.
Between 1848 and 1866 the Zollverein went through a series of
momentous crises and the issue of commercial organization became
increasingly politicized. Austro-Prussian rivalry,
industrialization, and liberalism, created a tense atmosphere in
which Britain had enormous influence. Using a wide range of German
and British sources this study shows how Britain, blindfolded by
doctrinaire Free Trade and institutional inadequacy, failed to
grasp the connotations of its own actions in the German states and
how misinterpretation began to sour Anglo-German relations.
No single recent enterprise has done more to enlarge and deepen our
understanding of one of the most critical periods in English
history. ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL Anglo-Norman Studies, published
annually and containing the papers presented at the Battle
conference, is established as the single most important publication
in the field, covering not only matters relating to pre- and
post-Conquest England and France, but also the activities and
influences of the Normans on the wider European, Mediterranean, and
Middle Eastern stage; it celebrates its twenty-first anniversary
with this volume. This year there is an emphasis on the examination
of sources: translation-narratives, the Life of Hereward, the Book
of Llandaf, a Mont Saint Michel cartulary, Benoit de Sainte-Maure
and Roger of Howden. Secular topics include Anglo-Flemish relations
and the origins of an important family; ecclesiastical matters
considered are the Breton church in the late eleventh century,
William Rufus's monastic policy, the patrons of the great abbey of
Bec, and, for the first time in this series, the life of St Thomas
of Canterbury.
When a person you love is terminally ill, you wish and wish for
their pain to go away. You even pray for it. Then the cold reality
of death stares you in the face, and you start praying for
something newone more day with them, one more hour, one more
minuteand you would give anything to have it. When John R. Davis
lost his life partnerfondly called his Banana Bread Manto brain
cancer, he also lost himself. He wondered how his world could ever
be anything other than gray. Jack had been the one to bring color
into his life. How could Davis expect to experience joy again
without his mate of twenty-seven years? How would he survive the
loss of Jacks magnanimous presence? Did he even want to survive?
Finding My Banana Bread Man is a love story that: guides people
mourning the loss of a loved onetakes them through shock, despair,
and lonelinessinspires all those who support them in their
life-changing journeys Embracing his partners memory through tiny
deeds of good action, poetry, letters, and scholarships helped
Davis transcend grief. More than that, he was finally able to
reconnect with the person he used to be before Jack died. Today, he
dedicates his life to helping those who are suffering after the
premature deaths of their spouses, mates, or partners. http:
//www.findingmybananabreadman.com
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