Contemporary historian Ralph of Diceto traced his family's lineage through Edith to the Anglo-Saxon kings of England and Alfred the Great, and from there linked them to Noah and Woden.

Contemporary historian William Camden observed of the northern English and the Scots, " there is not a man amongst them of a better sort that hath not his little tower or pile ", and many tower houses seem to have been built as much as status symbols as defensive structures.

Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk " he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without ( Melisende's ) consent ".

Contemporary historian Ammianus Marcellinus recounts him as a " most warlike man " who " ruled over extensively wide and fertile regions ".

* Giovanni Spadolini, historian and important Italian politician, professor of " Contemporary History ", born in 1925 in Florence.

Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk " he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without ( Melisende's ) consent ".

Contemporary historian E. A. Freeman praised the book as a " great work ", yet questioned its conjectural methodology, particularly the " half timid suggestion " made by Muir that Muhammad had fallen under the influence of Satanic inspiration.

In the nineteenth century, positivist French historian Hippolyte Taine repeated the Englishman's arguments in Origins of Contemporary France ( 1876 – 1885 ): that centralisation of power is the essential fault of the Revolutionary French government system ; that it does not promote democratic control ; and that the Revolution transferred power from the divinely chosen aristocracy to an " enlightened " heartless elite more incompetent and tyrannical than the aristocrats.

In this respect, it is important to note that Mommsen — at the time employed by the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History — was the first historian in the early 1960s to accept the conclusions of the journalist Fritz Tobias who argued in a 1961 book The Reichstag Fire that the Reichstag Fire of 1933 was not started by the Nazis and that Marinus van der Lubbe had acted alone.

Andreas Maislinger ( born 26 February 1955 in St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria ) is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days.

Andreas Maislinger, an Austrian historian and founder of Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days, reacted on the call and suggested setting up a House of Responsibility in the house where Adolf Hitler was born.

In 1961, when the Polish-Jewish historian Joseph Wulf accused the prominent German doctor Dr Wilhelm Hagen, who served in the health department of the General Government during the war, of helping to liquidate Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto, Broszat together with other experts from the Institute of Contemporary History were involved in the effort to silence Wulf during an exchange of letters in 1963.

Contemporary chronicler William of Tyre recorded the census of 1183, which was intended to determine the number of men available to defend against an invasion, and to determine the amount of tax money that could be obtained from the inhabitants, Muslim or Christian.

Contemporary sources, such as William of Tyre, discount the alleged infidelity of Melisende and instead point out that Fulk overly favoured newly arrived Frankish crusaders from Anjou over the native nobility of the kingdom.

These include Alonzo King and his company, Alonzo King's Lines Ballet ; Complexions Contemporary Ballet, under the direction of Dwight Rhoden ; Nacho Duato's Compañia Nacional de Danza ; William Forsythe, who has worked extensively with the Frankfurt Ballet and today runs The Forsythe Company ; and Jiří Kylián, currently the artistic director of the Nederlands Dans Theater.

* William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella ( The Contemporary History ), Edited by Edmund King, Translated by K. R. Potter, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Contemporary visionary artists count Hieronymous Bosch, William Blake, Morris Graves ( of the Pacific Northwest School of Visionary Art ), Emil Bisttram, and Gustave Moreau amongst their antecedents.

* The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709, With a Number for Easter Term, 1711 A. D. A Contemporary Bibliography of English Literature in the Reigns of Charles II, James II, William and Mary, and Anne.

In quick succession, Morison wrote Christopher Columbus, Mariner ( 1955 ), Freedom in Contemporary Society ( 1956 ), The Story of the ' Old Colony ' of New Plymouth, 1620 – 1692 ( 1956 ), Nathaniel Homes Morison ( 1957 ), William Hickling Prescott ( 1958 ), Strategy and Compromise ( 1958 ), and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography ( 1959 ), which earned Morison his second Pulitzer Prize.

Contemporary South African artists whose work has been met with international acclaim include Marlene Dumas and William Kentridge.

* Evangelical Responsibility in Contemporary Theology ( Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1957 ).

William E. Powell & Mary L. Kelly-Powell, “ Media and Society: An Interview With Robert McChesney ,” Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, Vol.

Contemporary and post-conceptual artists also made artist's books an important aspect of their practice, notably William Wegman, Bob Cobbing, Martin Kippenberger, Raymond Pettibon, and Suze Rotolo.

Gosfield's compositions have been performed internationally by The Bang on a Can Allstars, Agon Orchestra, Joan Jeanrenaud, Fred Frith, Felix Fan, Roger Kleier, Blair McMillen, William Winant, the FLUX Quartet, the Miami String Quartet, The Silesian String Quartet, So Percussion, Talujon Percussion, Newband ( on the Harry Partch instruments ) and many others, at festivals including Warsaw Autumn, ISCM World Music Days, Bang on a Can Marathon, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Festival Musique Actuelle, Wien Modern, OtherMinds, Spoleto Festival USA, Company Week, Taktlos, and three " Radical New Jewish Culture " festivals curated by John Zorn.

* Dr. William Heyen, Contemporary American poet, writer

William Boyd biography, British Council, Contemporary Writers.

*-" The Anti-Jewish Career of Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Cabinet Minister ,' Journal of Contemporary History 24 ( 1989 ) pp. 461-482

Hamilton was awarded the William and Noma Copley Foundation Award, 1960 ; the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize, 1960 ; the Talens Prize International, 1970 ; the Leone d ’ Oro for his exhibition in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 1993 ; the Arnold Bode Prize at Documenta X, Kassel, 1997 ; and the Max Beckmann Prize for painting, 2006.

Contemporary scholars such as Huston Smith, William Chittick, Harry Oldmeadow, James Cutsinger and Seyyed Hossein Nasr have advocated Perennialism as an alternative to secularist approach to religious phenomena.

* William Sharp ( baritone ) American baritone, see Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition

Contemporary artists like Mark Stephen Smith ( William Campbell Gallery, USA ) and others have developed extensive bodies of work mapping the convergence of brain science and painting.

Contemporary sources ( such as Four Years in the Saddle, by William Leontes Curry ), state that the cavalry charge continued on the nearby Foster farm, which is also referred to as the battle of Walnut Creek.

* New Poems 1961: A P. E. N Anthology of Contemporary Poetry ( 1961 ) editor with Hilary Corke and William Plomer

Contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq wrote a literary biography of Lovecraft called H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life.

In 1928 the music critic Andre Coeuroy, wrote in the Panorama of Contemporary Music that " perhaps the time is not far off when a composer will be able to represent through recording, music specifically composed for the gramophone " ( Coeuroy 1928, 162 ).

Harris also wrote short stories and novels, two books on Shakespeare, a series of biographical sketches in five volumes under the title Contemporary Portraits and biographies of his friends Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.

In 1883, an anonymous author calling himself " A German " wrote a memorial to Léon Gambetta, published in The Contemporary Review, a British quarterly.

Amongst the strongest critics of Froude's biographical work was novelist Margaret Oliphant, who wrote in the Contemporary Review of 1883 that biography ought to be the " art of moral portrait painting " and described the publication of Jane Carlyle's papers as the " betrayal and exposure of the secret of a woman ’ s weakness.

Mandelstam, in his 1916 review " On Contemporary Poetry ," wrote: Kuzmin's classicism is captivating.

" He translated the Odyssey, wrote a well-known manual of idiom, A Plea for the Queen's English ( 1863 ), and was the first editor of the Contemporary Review ( 1866 – 1870 ).

Contemporary critic and editor Margaret Fuller wrote, " his verse is stereotyped ; his thought sounds no depth, and posterity will not remember him.

Commissioned to develop an Internet event for an arts weekend at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ( ICA ) in London, and inspired by the SFnet terminal based cafes, Pope wrote a proposal outlining the concept of a café with Internet access from the tables.

Allès wrote in the document " Notes on some joking relationships between Hui and Han villages in Henan " published by French Centre for Research on Contemporary China that " The major Muslim revolts in the middle of the nineteenth century which involved the Hui in Shaanxi, Gansu and Yunnan, as well as the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, do not seem to have had any direct effect on this region of the central plain.

Contemporary visitors and residents in Ghazni wrote with wonder of the ornateness of the buildings, the great libraries, the sumptuousness of the court ceremonies and of the wealth of precious objects owned by Ghazni's citizens.

" In a 1986 article for Women of Power magazine called " Ancient Gorgons: A Face for Contemporary Women's Rage ," Emily Erwin Culpepper wrote that " The Amazon Gorgon face is female fury personified.

Contemporary poet John Bastard wrote:

" One of the prettiest places on the Earth ", as E. B. Lanin wrote in The Contemporary Review in 1894 in London.

Gilbert also wrote histories and articles and stories for numerous periodicals ( often anonymously ), including Cornhill, Temple Bar, St. Paul's, the Quiver, The Contemporary Review, The Sunday Magazine, Good Things, Good Words, Strahan's Boy's and Girl's ( sic ) Annual and The Fortnightly Review.

" In a 2007 Gamasutra article on the " Platinum and Modern Ages " of computer role-playing games, Matt Barton wrote, " Contemporary reviewers fell over themselves praising the game and giving it the highest possible marks ; it didn't take an orb of true seeing to know this game was platinum.

It was during Steward ’ s teaching years at Columbia, which lasted until 1952, that he wrote arguably his most important theoretical contributions: “ Cultural Causality and Law: A Trial Formulation of the Development of Early Civilizations ( 1949b ), “ Area Research: Theory and Practice ” ( 1950 ), “ Levels of Sociocultural Integration ” ( 1951 ), “ Evolution and Process ( 1953a ), and “ The Cultural Study of Contemporary Societies: Puerto Rico ” ( Steward and Manners 1953 ).

Contemporary poet Semezdin Mehmedinović wrote Sarajevo Blues from inside the city during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992.

Michael Hemmingson wrote in the journal The Review of Contemporary Fiction that Hogg,

He wrote two violin method books, Principles of Violin Playing and Teaching ( 1962 ) and Contemporary Violin Technique ( 1962 ).

Kevin Almond for Contemporary Fashion wrote that " by the time Dior died his name had become synonymous with taste and luxury.