|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
Where medieval Denmark and Scandinavia as a whole has often been
seen as a cultural backwater that passively and belatedly received
cultural and political impulses from Western Europe, Professor
Michael H. Gelting and scholars inspired by him have shown that the
intellectual, religious and political elite of Denmark actively
participated in the renaissance and reformation of the central and
later medieval period. This work has wide ramifications for
understanding developments in medieval Europe, but so far the
discussion has taken place only in Danish-language publications.
This anthology brings the latest research in Danish medieval
history to a wider audience and integrates it with contemporary
international discussions of the making of the European middle
ages.
Where medieval Denmark and Scandinavia as a whole has often been
seen as a cultural backwater that passively and belatedly received
cultural and political impulses from Western Europe, Professor
Michael H. Gelting and scholars inspired by him have shown that the
intellectual, religious and political elite of Denmark actively
participated in the renaissance and reformation of the central and
later medieval period. This work has wide ramifications for
understanding developments in medieval Europe, but so far the
discussion has taken place only in Danish-language publications.
This anthology brings the latest research in Danish medieval
history to a wider audience and integrates it with contemporary
international discussions of the making of the European middle
ages.
Documentation has always been crucial in human society. Today
almost all communication are being stored digitally. In order to
deal systematically and coherently with old and new media in the
world today, you have to deal with the physical as well as the
social and cultural context. Alongside this, there is now
increasing interest in documentation theory and science, and
documentation studies has become a distinctly lively field of
research as well as a basis for professional practice in libraries,
archives and museums. This groundbreaking new book introduces and
demonstrates the value and relevance of a new approach to the
documentation, communication and information field, complementary
to the traditional library, information and archival sciences. It
offers an introduction to documentation studies - a new discipline
within the overall information studies umbrella - and gives a broad
and general theory for documentation. It outlines the historical
background and the theoretical foundation for the discipline by
giving insight into documentation issues and processes from early
modern society to today's digital age: not only in the context of
academic study, but also in the practice of documentation, both in
everyday life and in professional life. Key topics covered include:
Human life in a documentation perspective Documentation in theory
Documentation: a conceptual history A complementary theory of
documentation A model for documentation analysis Documentation in
practice: 6 case studies Documentation in society The science and
profession of documentation. This unique text outlines the main
scientific purpose and objective of the science of documentation;
to study documentation in society. It also describes the main
skills for a documentalist in the 21st century; to be able to
select, collect and make accessible all documentation of possible
interest for the general public as well as research. This book will
be pivotal reading for students (advanced undergraduate and
graduate), researchers, and faculty in library science, information
science, records management, publishing, media studies, cultural
studies, archival studies, and information systems. It will also be
of interest to thoughtful professionals in libraries, archives,
records and media.
The studies in this book examine and illuminate the Anglo-Saxon and
Anglo-Norman military institutions that supported and shaped the
conduct of war in northwestern Europe in the central middle ages.
Taken together they challenge received opinion on a number of
issues and force a profound reconsideration of the manner in which
the Normans and their adversaries, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Angevins
and the Welsh, prepared for and waged war.Contributors: RICHARD
ABELS, BERNARD BACHRACH, KELLY DEVRIES, JOHN FRANCE, C.M. GILLMOR,
ROBERT HELMERICHS, NIELS LUND, STEPHEN MORILLO, MICHAEL PRESTWICH,
FREDERICK SUPPE.Contents RICHARD ABELS, From Alfred to Harold II:
The Military Failure of the Late Anglo-Saxon State; BERNARD S.
BACHRACH, William Rufus's Plan for the Invasion of Aquitaine; KELLY
DEVRIES, Harold Godwinson in Wales: Military Legitimacy in Late
Anglo-Saxon England; JOHN FRANCE, The Normans and Crusading; C.M.
GILLMORE, Aimoin's Miracula Sancti Germani and the Viking Raids on
St Denis and St Germain-des-PrA(c)s; ROB HELMERICHS, 'Ad tutandos
patriae fines': The Defense of Normandy, 1135; NILS LUND, Expedicio
in Denmark; STEPHEN MORILLO, Milites, Knights and Samurai: Military
Terminology, Comparative History, and the Problem of Translation;
MICHAEL PRESTWICH, The Garrisoning of English Medieval Castles;
FREDERICK SUPPE, The Persistance of Castle-Guard in the Welsh
Marches and Wales: Suggestions for a Research Agenda and
Methodology.
|
You may like...
The Flash
Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, …
DVD
R264
Discovery Miles 2 640
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|