The State of the Art -- Recent Scholarship in Late Medieval and Early Modern Military History

1983 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 193
Author(s):  
John Beeler
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Military History ◽  
The State ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Recent Scholarship

scholarly journals Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Justice in Britain, 1300–1700: An Introduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 677-683
Author(s):  
Alexandra Shepard ◽  
Tim Stretton
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Early Modern Women ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Marital Property ◽  
The Many ◽  
Women's Appearance ◽  
Women And The Law

AbstractThis introduction places the articles featured in this special issue of the Journal of British Studies within the context of recent scholarship on late medieval and early modern women and the law. It is designed to highlight the many boundaries that structured women's legal agency in Britain, including the procedural boundaries that filtered their voices through male advisers and officials, the jurisdictional boundaries that shaped litigation strategies, the constraints surrounding women's appearance as witnesses in court, the gendered differentiation of rights determined by primogeniture and marital property law, and the boundaries between legal and extralegal activity. Emphasizing the importance of a nuanced approach, it rejects the construction of women's litigation simply as a form of resistance to patriarchal norms and also urges caution against overestimating or oversimplifying the choices available to women in legal disputes or their latitude to operate as autonomous individuals. Gender intersected in British courts with locality, resources, jurisdiction, social status, and familial, religious, and political affiliations to inform different women's access to justice, which involved negotiations between unequal actors within various constraints and in complex alignment with multiple and often competing interests.

Quentin Skinner's State: Historical Method and Traditions of Discourse

1985 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cary J. Nederman
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern Theory ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Historical Methodology ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
Modern Europe

AbstractIn contrast to recent commentators on Quentin Skinner's Foundations of Modern Political Thought, this work argues that Skinner's approach to the development of the modern theory of the state is strictly consistent with his earlier methodological proposals. But it is also established that Skinner's consistency ultimately leaves him without a “genuinely historical” basis for a unified state-tradition within late medieval and early modern Europe. The article proposes an alternative historical methodology which allows for the explanation of persisting traditions of discourse (such as that of the state) within a coherent historical framework.

A Walking Memory: State-Designed Processions as a Tool of Collective Remembering in Late Medieval and Early Modern Dubrovnik

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 458-469
Author(s):  
Nella Lonza
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Memory State ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Collective Remembering ◽  
The Republic

The state authorities of late medieval and early modern Dubrovnik used processions as a cultural tool to create a collective remembrance of traumatic historical experience, such as conspiracy, pestilence, or earthquake. Until the sixteenth century, the commemoration was amalgamated with the saint’s cult (“watermark” model), while in the last two centuries of the Republic the link to an underlying historical event became explicit. This shift may be accounted by the growing dominance of the secular over ecclesiastical authorities, and the increasing ambition of the state to manage its self-representation.

Named-entity recognition for early modern textual documents: a review of capabilities and challenges with strategies for the future

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Humbel ◽  
Julianne Nyhan ◽  
Andreas Vlachidis ◽  
Kim Sloan ◽  
Alexandra Ortolja-Baird
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Research Field ◽  
The State ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
British Library ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Named Entity

PurposeBy mapping-out the capabilities, challenges and limitations of named-entity recognition (NER), this article aims to synthesise the state of the art of NER in the context of the early modern research field and to inform discussions about the kind of resources, methods and directions that may be pursued to enrich the application of the technique going forward.Design/methodology/approachThrough an extensive literature review, this article maps out the current capabilities, challenges and limitations of NER and establishes the state of the art of the technique in the context of the early modern, digitally augmented research field. It also presents a new case study of NER research undertaken by Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane's Catalogues of his Collections (2016–2021), a Leverhulme funded research project and collaboration between the British Museum and University College London, with contributing expertise from the British Library and the Natural History Museum.FindingsCurrently, it is not possible to benchmark the capabilities of NER as applied to documents of the early modern period. The authors also draw attention to the situated nature of authority files, and current conceptualisations of NER, leading them to the conclusion that more robust reporting and critical analysis of NER approaches and findings is required.Research limitations/implicationsThis article examines NER as applied to early modern textual sources, which are mostly studied by Humanists. As addressed in this article, detailed reporting of NER processes and outcomes is not necessarily valued by the disciplines of the Humanities, with the result that it can be difficult to locate relevant data and metrics in project outputs. The authors have tried to mitigate this by contacting projects discussed in this paper directly, to further verify the details they report here.Practical implicationsThe authors suggest that a forum is needed where tools are evaluated according to community standards. Within the wider NER community, the MUC and ConLL corpora are used for such experimental set-ups and are accompanied by a conference series, and may be seen as a useful model for this. The ultimate nature of such a forum must be discussed with the whole research community of the early modern domain.Social implicationsNER is an algorithmic intervention that transforms data according to certain rules-, patterns- or training data and ultimately affects how the authors interpret the results. The creation, use and promotion of algorithmic technologies like NER is not a neutral process, and neither is their output A more critical understanding of the role and impact of NER on early modern documents and research and focalization of some of the data- and human-centric aspects of NER routines that are currently overlooked are called for in this paper.Originality/valueThis article presents a state of the art snapshot of NER, its applications and potential, in the context of early modern research. It also seeks to inform discussions about the kinds of resources, methods and directions that may be pursued to enrich the application of NER going forward. It draws attention to the situated nature of authority files, and current conceptualisations of NER, and concludes that more robust reporting of NER approaches and findings are urgently required. The Appendix sets out a comprehensive summary of digital tools and resources surveyed in this article.

European Military History in America: The State of the Art

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Gunther E. Rothenberg ◽  
Dennis Parks
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Military History ◽  
The State

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 290-294
Author(s):  
Vincent Evener
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Devotional Literature ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Early Modern Era ◽  
Modern Era

Recent scholarship has often focused on the failure of sixteenth-century reform aspirations; scholars have also questioned the coherence and historical significance of the Reformation. The present study brings into relief a yet-unresolved question underlying these debates: what did reformers want to achieve? Scholars have highlighted numerous goals (relief from the social and psychological burdens of late-medieval religion, Christianization, consolation, certitude); this book views the reformers’ central concern as truth and the alignment of Christian life around truth. Luther, Karlstadt, and Müntzer agreed that human self-assertion in thinking and willing was the root of religious deception; thus, they agreed in seeing suffering both as key to the reception and perception of truth and as an inevitable consequence of life according to truth in a fallen world. Eckhartian mysticism inspired and aided their work to teach discernment and self-discipline. Such pedagogical efforts continued through the preaching, printed sermons and postils, and devotional literature of the early modern era, and it is inappropriate to pass judgment on the success or failure of the Reformation without attending to that literature.

The State of the Art. The Way of the Future

Diplomatica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Jennifer Mori
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Diplomatic History ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

A survey of recent writings in early-modern, largely European, diplomatic history reveals important shifts in the direction of the cultural and sociological emphasis favored by the proponents of New Diplomatic History. In turn, the shifts have brought mainstream diplomatic historians closer to other subfields – gender and class history, in particular. The trend is likely to continue.

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