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Due to his literary style and the thoroughness of his research — which seemingly included studying Roman imperial archives and heavily relying on Thucydides — and his apparent rigor — for he tended not to support any character or subject, taking an impartial point of view — he was by far the most read and admired historian during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the early Modern Era.
" Similar criticism of Murray came from the historian Ronald Hutton, in both his 1991 book on ancient paganism, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy and in his 1999 study of Wiccan history, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft.
The success of original material like Urinetown, Avenue Q, Spelling Bee and In the Heights, as well as creative re-imaginings of film properties, including Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hairspray, Billy Elliot and The Color Purple, and plays-turned-musicals, such as Spring Awakening, prompts theatre historian John Kenrick to write: " Is the Musical dead?
Bruni was the first historian to write using the three-period view of history: Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Modern.
It was not until 1927 that Chagall made his name in the French art world, when art critic and historian Maurice Raynal awarded him a place in his book Modern French Painters.
John Rewald, an art historian focused on the birth of Modern art, wrote a series of books about the Post-Impressionist period, including Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin ( 1956 ) and an essay, Paul Gauguin: Letters to Ambroise Vollard and André Fontainas ( included in Rewald's Studies in Post-Impressionism, 1986 ), discusses Gauguin's years in Tahiti, and the struggles of his survival as seen through correspondence with the art dealer Vollard and others.
In his text Feudal and Modern Japan ( 1896 ), historian Arthur May Knapp wrote: The samurai of thirty years ago had behind him a thousand years of training in the law of honor, obedience, duty, and self-sacrifice ....
Modern historian Ma Feibai considers the significance of Duke Xian's abolition of human sacrifice to Chinese history comparable to that of Abraham Lincoln's abolition of slavery to American history.
Donald Cameron Watt, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the London School of Economics, wrote that he admires some of Irving's work as a historian, though he rejects his conclusions about the Holocaust.
The defendants ( with Penguin's insurers paying the fee ) also retained Professor Richard J. Evans, historian and Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University, as an expert witness.
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper ( 15 January 1914 – 27 January 2003 ) was an English historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford.
Hungarian historian Emil Reich ( 1854 – 1910 ) is considered to be the first having coined the acception in English as early as 1902 and later in 1904 in his book Foundations of Modern Europe.
She started making plans for a Museum of Modern Art in London together with the English art historian
: Stephen Polcari, art historian ; Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience, 1991, Cambridge University Press
* George Peabody Gooch, ( 1873 – 1968 ), English historian of Modern Diplomacy
He held the regius professorship of Modern History at Oxford from 1858 to 1866, that ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the ‘ best instrument for cultivating the historical sense .” As a historian, indeed, he left no abiding work ; the multiplicity of his interests prevented him from concentrating on any one subject.
The Pruitt – Igoe housing project was one of the first demolitions of modernist architecture ; postmodern architectural historian Charles Jencks called its destruction " the day Modern architecture died.
** In contrast, the conservative popular historian Paul Johnson in A History of the Modern World from 1917 to the 1980s ( 1983 ) was highly critical of his judgment.
* Library of Lord Acton, Catholic historian and Regius Professor of Modern History in 1885 – 1902.
The term was coined by William Gibson in his story " The Gernsback Continuum ": " Cohen introduced us and explained that Dialta noted pop-art historian was the prime mover behind the latest Barris-Watford project, an illustrated history of what she called " American Streamlined Modern.
Using her studies into the role of witchcraft and magic in Britain during the Early Modern period as a starting point, the historian Emma Wilby examined the relationship that familiar spirits allegedly had with the witches and cunning-folk in this period.
It was described by architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as " free Neo-Tudor " and " extremely pretty " and by Andor Gomme as " one of the great masterpieces of the early Modern Movement ".
A Brooklyn native, he is a prominent Modern Orthodox theologian, historian, and philosopher.
Modern historian John Elliott said as far as any particular policies that can be attributed to Spain's rise " they were those of Ferdinand and Cardinal Cisneros.

Modern and Carolyn
* Modern American Poetry-An Interview with Carolyn Forché by David Wright
, Simon Vinnicombe's Year 10, Joy Wilkinson's Fair which transferred to the West End ; Waterloo Day with Robert Lang ; Sarah Phelps Modern Dance for Beginners, subsequently produced at the Soho Theatre ; Carolyn Scott-Jeffs ' comedy Out in the Garden, which transferred to the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh ; the London premiere of Larry Kramer's The Destiny of Me ; The Women s War – an evening of original suffragette plays ; Steve Hennessy s Lullabies of Broadmoor ( about the Finborough Road murder of 1922 ); the Victorian era comedy Masks and Faces ; Etta Jenks with Clarke Peters and Daniela Nardini ; The Gigli Concert with Niall Buggy, Catherine Cusack and Paul McGann which transferred to the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh ); Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams with Linda Bassett, Albert's Boy by James Graham starring Victor Spinetti, Peter Oswald s Lucifer Saved with Mark Rylance, Blackwater Angel, the UK debut of Irish playwright Jim Nolan with Sean Campion, the first London revival for over seventy years of Loyalties by John Galsworthy, the world premiere of Plague Over England by Nicholas de Jongh which subsequently transferred to the West End at the Duchess Theatre, the first revival of Hangover Square, adapted by Fidelis Morgan from the novel by Patrick Hamilton, the UK premiere of the musical Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon and a season of plays by William Saroyan.

Modern and L
In Modern Greek the name of the letter, Λάμδα, is pronounced ; the spoken letter itself has the sound of as with Latinate " L ".
* Burd, L. A., " Florence ( II ): Machiavelli " in Cambridge Modern History ( 1902 ), vol.
Modern competition began around 1850 in Germany, when pole vaulting was added to the exercises of the Turner gymnastic clubs by Johann C. F. GutsMuths and Friedrich L. Jahn.
" — p. vii, J. L. Heilbron, ( 2003, editor-in-chief ) The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science New York: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-511229-6
Madden's scholarly, Middle English edition of the poem was followed in 1898 by the first Modern English translation-a prose version by literary scholar Jessie L. Weston.
Modern scholars regard this claim as mistaken, as the contemporary historians of science David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers write: " there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge sphericity and even know its approximate circumference.
At least one physicist considers the wave-duality ” a misnomer, as L. Ballentine, Quantum Mechanics, A Modern Development, p. 4, explains:
File: Atelier rouge matisse 1. jpg | L ' Atelier Rouge, 1911, oil on canvas, 162 × 130 cm., The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
* Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future ( 1953, second edition 1979, with John W. Campbell, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Fletcher Pratt, L. Sprague de Camp, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip Wylie, Gerald Heard )
* Schmidt, R. L. ( 1993 ) A Practical Dictionary of Modern Nepali.
* Paul Meyer, L ' Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( Paris: Société de l ' histoire de France, 1891 – 1901 ), with partial translation of the original sources into Modern French.
* Paul Meyer, L ' Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( Paris: Société de l ' histoire de France, 1891 – 1901 ), with partial translation of the original sources into Modern French.
In 1982, Modern Method Records released This Is Boston, Not L. A., a seminal compilation album of the Boston hardcore scene.
::: See Christina L. Anderson, Comment, Double Jeopardy: The Modern Dilemma for Juvenile Justice, 152 U. Pa. L. Rev.
::: See Christina L. Anderson, Comment, Double Jeopardy: The Modern Dilemma for Juvenile Justice, 152 U. Pa. L. Rev.
Modern pyrometers became available when the first disappearing filament pyrometer was built by L. Holborn and F. Kurlbaum in 1901.
* L. Ron Hubbard ( 1911 – 86 ), who wrote Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health there.
Modern recreation of the Norse site at L ' Anse aux Meadows.
His own works, which circulated in manuscript in his lifetime, include brief works on the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and letters to his brothers, to L. Bruni, Guauni, Traversari, and to Pallas Strozzi, as well as two which were eventually printed, his Erotemata Civas Questiones which was the first basic Greek grammar in use in Western Europe, first published in 1484 and widely reprinted, and which enjoyed considerable success not only among his pupils in Florence, but also among later leading humanists, being immediately studied by Thomas Linacre at Oxford and by Desiderius Erasmus at Cambridge ; and Epistolæ tres de comparatione veteris et novæ Romæ ( Three Letters Comparing Ancient and Modern Rome ).
* L. R. Snyder, J. J. Kirkland, and J. W. Dolan, Introduction to Modern Liquid Chromatography, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2009.
* Sievers, Sharon L. Flowers in Salt: The Beginnings of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan.
* Dynes, Russell & Enrico L. Quarantelli, " What Looting in Civil Disturbances Really Means ," in Modern Criminals 177 ( James F. Short, Jr. ed.

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