Impact Of Conquest Research Articles

The Norman Conquest: a new introduction

PART ONE Preliminaries. 1 The principal sources 2 Britain and Normandy in the eleventh century 3 The origins of conquest, 991-1066 PART TWO The Norman Conquest 4 Conquest, 1066 5 Conquest consolidated, 1067-1087 6 Conquest confirmed, 1087-1100 7 The English conquest of Normandy, 1100-1106 PART THREE The Impact of Conquest 8 Government and law 9 Lands and armies 10 Economies and families 11 The church PART FOUR Conclusion 12 Britain and Normandy in 1106 - myths and reality

Use of Dialogue in the Reinterpretation of American Indian Religious Traditions

Native American religious traditions are rich in aesthetics and symbolism. Each tribal group has its own cultural pattern, language, and way of life, which generate the cosmological core of its unique belief system. The development of these elaborate traditions can only be examined properly within their own social, religious, and historical contexts. Several obstacles interfere with the objective study of American Indian religions, however. The major factor is the persistent lack of understanding between the majority of the American nation and Native Americans. Because of their long history of oppression and forced assimilation, Native Americans are protective of their sacred tradtions and spiritual knowledge. Most non-Indians have as yet failed to comprehend the full impact of conquest on Native Americans, whose lives were forcibly transformed by systematic efforts to replace their cultures and religious beliefs with various forms of Christianity and Euro-American political structures. Today, however, many non-Indians are interested in learning about Native Americans in the hope of better understanding their own history, environment, and spirituality. Since the mid-1960s, in many universities Native American students have demanded courses in Native American studies that would help them comprehend the historical, political, environmental, and religious issues which confront them in the modern world. Students today

A History of Ancient Geography

A pioneer in establishing the study of geography in British universities, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1829–1916) sought to share his deep appreciation of the subject's ancient authorities, particularly Strabo. His keen understanding of historical geography rested on first-hand knowledge of physical landscapes, gained during travels through Italy, Greece and Turkey. While E. H. Bunbury had already produced an extensive work along similar lines, Tozer believed that classicists as well as other readers would welcome a more manageable, single-volume textbook. First published in 1897, it traces the progress of geographical writing in Greek and Latin from the Homeric age to the end of Rome's western empire. Due attention is given along the way to such writers as Hecataeus, Herodotus, Strabo and Ptolemy, with the inclusion of maps that show their respective conceptions of the world. The impact of conquest, notably by Alexander the Great and the Romans, is also highlighted.