The American Revolutionary ideology from 1764 to 1783
Essay - 8 pages - Medieval history
The historiography concerning the American Revolution has been peculiarly rich and contradictory with respect to the main sources and causes of this two-decade complex process that led loyal Englishmen to brutally and irrevocably break with their mother-country. Older interpretations about the...
Was terror an integral part of the mentality of the revolutionaries in France?
Essay - 3 pages - Medieval history
No part of the Revolution calls as much pictures to mind as the “Terror”. The endless lines of people waiting to be guillotined, the Committee of Public Safety with the heartless figure of Maximilien Robespierre, Marat's corpse lying in his bath... more and more bloody pictures...
The war of the Spanish succession: Causes and consequences - publié le 07/05/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) was a major conflict leading to the end of French supremacy on the European continent. For the first time, the armies of the Sun King, Louis XIV, lost their reputation of invincibility. The purpose of this essay is to provide an extensive analysis of...
The revolt of the Netherlands: Spain's failure to regain control of the Netherlands
Essay - 3 pages - Medieval history
The rebellion of the Netherlands against ruling Spain was, in the end, a success leading to complete independence in 1648, with the Treaties of Den Haag and of Westphalia. All the Northern provinces of the “Spanish Netherlands” became fully independent, forming the United Provinces. A...
Museum of the Native Americans
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
As opposed to most other exhibitions on Native Americans, the one held within the Native Americans National Museum puts the emphasis on the present life of Indian Americans. They are not classified as a memory of the past anymore but as part of the current American society. However, their past is...
Why did the Jacobites fail?
Essay - 6 pages - Medieval history
Immediately after the Glorious Revolution and James II's flight, Jacobitism appeared. Its aim was to restore the pretender of the House of Stuart. For six decades, advocates of the Stuart cause took part in several uprisings which started in Scotland. They also attempted coups during several...
Witches' day, Witch-hunt in Northern Europe
Essay - 9 pages - Medieval history
From the early 13th century to the late 18th there were several witch-hunts conducted in Europe and North America. The term "witch-hunt" refers to the indictment and sometimes the condemnation of so-called "witches". The Great European Witch-hunt mainly took place between 1450 and 1750, but the...
Political conflict between Dublin's two cathedrals
Essay - 5 pages - Medieval history
Here is in this little city two great cathedral churches, richly endowed and too near together for any good they do . Here Sir John Perrot, an Elizabethan lord deputy, described the peculiar situation of Dublin which since the thirteenth century owed two cathedrals. Although the church of St....
Debate about the treatment of Indians in sixteenth-century Spain
Essay - 5 pages - Medieval history
Since the discovery of the Caribbean and South America, these territories had been progressively ruled all along the sixteenth-century by Spanish settlers, who looked for labour forces to exploit the new lands for revenue of the Crown and for themselves; and also by missionaries sent by the Crown...
The complex relationship between Muslims and Christians during the Middle-Ages
Essay - 7 pages - Medieval history
Christians and Muslims have always kept an ambiguous relationship going. Thanks to the Mediterranean, there have always been lots of contacts between the Christians and the Muslims. However, these contacts were strengthened with the Crusades during the Middle Ages. After the Crusades were over,...
Why was Louis IX been considered an "ideal King" by his contemporaries ?
Essay - 3 pages - Medieval history
During his reign, Louis IX had a tremendous popularity. He has even become a genuine myth in the French political history. For instance, Châteaubriand, a French writer and a monarchist politician of the early 19th century, often referred to Saint-Louis. Châteaubriand considered him as “the...
Discuss the place of the Church in the development of medieval ideas of sexuality and marriage
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
European people were deeply accustomed to a secular and traditional running of questions such as marriage and sexuality. The Church proposed new values and ideas about these issues which were often very far removed from former codes of ethics. Medieval ideals of marriage and sexuality were the...
Women's life in North-Western China under the Tang dynasty - published: 01/11/2002
Essay - 5 pages - Medieval history
This essay focuses on Chinese women from North-Western China (the Chinese part of the Silk Road) under the Tang dynasty (618-907). It describes the main outlines of their everyday life, and study more closely the impact of the Silk Road - and its related cultural interactions - on their lives. In...
Anglicization in 18th-century Scotland
Essay - 7 pages - Medieval history
From the Wars of Independence and the exploits of William Wallace (and even before) to the debates about the Act of Union and the fierce opposition of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, it is needless to say that Scottish and English histories have been most closely linked. Though, their relationship,...
The Scots and the Highlands in the 18th century
Essay - 4 pages - Medieval history
Do you discern a major change in the attitudes of eighteenth-century Scots towards Highland culture and society ? Bagpipes, tartan, kilts : How did Scotland as a nation come to adopt these symbolic elements of its cultural identity in the first half of the XIXth century ? Before trying to answer...
