However, the Russian culture has two distinct terms: Средняя Азия ( Srednjaja Azija or " Middle Asia ", the narrower definition, which includes only those traditionally non-Slavic, Central Asian lands that were incorporated within those borders of historical Russia ) and Центральная Азия ( Central ' naja Azija or " Central Asia ", the wider definition, which includes Central Asian lands that have never been part of historical Russia ).

Romola, an historical novel set in late 15th century Florence and touching on the lives of several real persons such as the priest Girolamo Savonarola, displays her wider reading and interests.

The term is derived from the wider senses of the word historia in Latin and Italian, and essentially means " story painting ", rather than the painting of scenes from history in its narrower sense in modern English, for which the term historical painting may be used, especially for 19th century art.

Recent historical interpretations, especially those influenced by Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ( 1962 ), portray the history of science in terms of competing paradigms or conceptual systems battling for intellectual supremacy in a wider matrix that includes intellectual, cultural, economic and political themes outside pure science.

The arguments surrounding the authenticity of the Testimonium fall into two categories: internal arguments that rely on textual analysis and compare the passage with the rest of Josephus ' work ; and external arguments, that consider the wider cultural and historical context.

20th-century interest in Kabbalah has inspired cross-denominational Jewish renewal and contributed to wider non-Jewish contemporary spirituality, as well as engaging its flourishing emergence and historical re-emphasis through newly established academic investigation.

President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

Marxist film theory has developed from these precise and historical beginnings and is now sometimes viewed in a wider way to refer to any power relationships or structures within a moving image text.

The divergence between the modernized classical views, on the one hand, and the historical and Marxist schools, on the other hand, is wider, so much so, indeed, as to bar out a consideration of the postulates of the latter under the same head of inquiry with the former.

In British English usage, and in British academia, " philology " remains largely synonymous with " historical linguistics ", while in US English, and US academia, the wider meaning of " study of a language's grammar, history and literary tradition " remains more widespread.

The islands became part of the historical record of the wider world when Persian traders discovered them and used them as a base for voyages between the Middle East, India, and Africa.

From the time when Islam emerged in the 7th century until the early 16th century, the name Bahrain referred to the wider historical region of Bahrain stretching from Basrah to the Strait of Hormuz along the Persian Gulf coast.

His books Wintering Out ( 1973 ) and North ( 1975 ) seek to interweave commentary on ' The Troubles ' with a historical context and wider human experience.

Because saints ' lives are often included many miracle stories, " legend " in a wider sense came to refer to any story that is set in a historical context but that contains supernatural or fantastic elements.

* The bulk of Gore Vidal's novels have historical settings, including Burr, which has gained a wider readership than any biography of Aaron Burr.

Note: The early history of historical Williamsburg Township includes a much wider area than the current Williamsburg County

After the Enlightenment, many Jews began to participate in wider European society, where they engaged in study related to critical methods of textual analysis, including both lower and higher criticism, the modern historical method, hermeneutics, and fields relevant to Bible study such as near-Eastern archaeology and linguistics.

Professional historians still often use the term " antiquarian " in a pejorative sense, to refer to historical studies which seem concerned only to place on record trivial or inconsequential facts, and which fail to consider the wider implications of these, or to formulate any kind of argument.

More ambitious and on a wider canvas are the historical or semi-historical novels, Dichterleben ( 1826 ), Der Aufruhr in den Cevennen ( 1826, unfinished ), Der Tod des Dichters ( 1834 ); Der junge Tischlermeister ( 1836 ; but begun in 1811 ) is an excellent story written under the influence of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister ; Vittoria Accorombona ( 1840 ), the story of Vittoria Accoramboni written in the style of the French Romanticists, shows a falling-off.

A second phase took a wider 20th century historical remit ; it comprised a learning programme using overseas visits and social media, and a professional development scheme for educators.

* family social and economic history ( telling the story of a family's place in society or economic achievements using oral and written records, or inferring information about lives from wider historical sources ; this subject is treated below )

Both the historical and fictional characters are, however, taken from a wider variety of occupations and social classes than in the Lymond Chronicles.

It is a four-year study program with a curriculum focused on biblical, theological, historical and pastoral studies with reference to parish management and development and wider cultural and social context.

As with many scientific fields, strict delineation can be highly contrived and atomic physics is often considered in the wider context of atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

This new identity made it possible for Scottish culture to become integrated into a wider European and North American context, not to mention tourist sites, but it also locked in a sense of " otherness " which Scotland began to shed only in the late 20th century.

In February 2011, anti-government mass protests sprang up against Gaddafi in Benghazi, Bayda and Zintan, in the context of the wider Arab Spring.

The sweeping political dramas ( Land and Freedom, Bread and Roses, The Wind that Shakes the Barley ) examine wider political forces in the context of relationships between family members ( Bread and Roses, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Carla's Song ), comrades in struggle ( Land and Freedom ) or close friends ( Route Irish ).

In a state law context, some U. S. state codes define " municipality " wider, from the state itself to any political subdivisions.

Weber's methodology was developed in the context of a wider debate about methodology of social sciences, the Methodenstreit.

" The majority opinion of the board stated that the inclusion of additional material on the DVD " facilitates wider consideration of the context of the film which results in the impact being no more than high.

However, the city and northern parts of its district can be regarded as belonging to that region in a wider regional and cultural context.

Although he was expected to embed the Project ’ s research within a wider theoretical context, it soon became apparent that the Project was primarily concerned with data collection to be used by administrators for establishing whether groups of listeners could be targeted by broadcasts specifically aimed at them.

It is true that he always recognized the importance of the organization of individual life and the ' development of a wealth of individual forms ' ( GS, III, p. 358 ), but he stressed the fact that ' self-education can only be continued [...] in the wider context of development of the world ' ( GS, VII, p. 33 ).

At the popular level such theories often appear uninformed as to the wider context of the arabesque.

The motivation for studying mathematical analysis in the wider context of topological or metric spaces is threefold:

As with many scientific fields, strict delineation can be highly contrived and atomic physics is often considered in the wider context of atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

It proved to be a visit that provoked many demonstrations against his visit, in the context of wider anti-war protests.

Industrial applications of fuzzy sets in the context of " fuzzy logic in the wider sense " can be found at fuzzy logic.

In a wider cultural context, modern historians have considered Zuccarelli to be a figure of interest with his love of escapism, seen as not untypical of the late Baroque.

Following this preliminary process of defining the context, the context is then assessed in relation to the wider understanding of the site, for considerations of reduction of the site in phases, and then removed and recorded by various methods.

The wider context of these remarks, describing the physical intimacy open to male pairs, indicates that the love exemplified by Orestes and Pylades would not necessarily have excluded even more overt homoerotic or homosexual elements.

The wider context of these remarks, describing the physical intimacy open to male pairs, indicates that the love exemplified by Orestes and Pylades would not necessarily have excluded even more overt homoerotic or homosexual elements.

This speculation ( also paralleled in Philip K. Dick's posthumously published The Transmigration of Timothy Archer ) is supported in a wider cultural context when compared with the praise of Haoma in the Rigveda, Mexican praise of teonanácatl, the peyote sacrament of the Native American Church, and the Holy Ayahuasca used in the ritual of the União do Vegetal and Santo Daime.