While authors such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Marc Ferro and Jacques Le Goff continue to carry the Annales banner, today the Annales approach has been less distinctive as more and more historians do work in cultural history, political history and economic history.

On the other hand, the Bastarnae maintained a separate name-identity into the late 3rd century AD, possibly implying retention of their Germanic cultural heritage, distinctive in the lower Danube, until the arrival of the Goths.

Yet, as Lemke and O ’ Connor point out, The Book of Lamentations, while adapting several traditional literary, historical, and cultural Near Eastern elements, is a unique literary composition, scripted to a specific historical situation, in response to an historical catastrophe, addressing the survivors of this catastrophe in a distinctive religious context.

" Period " also suggests a linearity of development, whereas it has not been uncommon for two or more distinctive cultural approaches to be active at the same time.

Historians will be able to find distinctive traces of a cultural movement before its accepted beginning, and there will always be new creations in old forms.

There are cultural commonalities between Esperanto speakers, which is a distinctive feature of a cultural community.

These distinctive ethnic, cultural, and legal differences of the Galatians encouraged them to remain definitively different even into the early Middle Ages.

With Rigoletto, Verdi sets up his original idea of musical drama as a cocktail of heterogeneous elements, embodying social and cultural complexity, and beginning from a distinctive mixture of comedy and tragedy.

Finnish nationalism emerged, focused on Finnish cultural traditions, including music and-especially-the highly distinctive language and lyrics associated with it.

The ethnic group known as Banat Swabians had lived for several centuries in that region and developed a distinctive dialect and cultural traits.

All attempts to identify an actual people with an unattested language depend on a sound reconstruction of that language that allows identification of cultural concepts and environmental factors which may be associated with particular cultures ( such as the use of metals, agriculture vs. pastoralism, geographically distinctive plants and animals, etc.

The movement consists of three distinct but interlinked organisations: the Wessex Regionalist Party, a registered political party which contests elections ; the Wessex Constitutional Convention, an all-party pressure group in which those who are sympathetic to devolution for Wessex but who are not members of the Wessex Regionalist Party can be represented ; and the Wessex Society, which is a cultural society devoted to promoting the distinctive identity of the region, while remaining politically neutral.

The Renaissance, Enlightenment, and Romanticism are broader cultural " movements " that happened to characterized by fairly distinctive philosophical concerns.

It is argued that Nation states, who would previously have been synonymous with a distinctive cultural identity of their own, lose out to enforced multiculturalism and that this ultimately erodes the host nations ' distinct culture.

In doing so they have retained, to a high degree, their distinctive cultural and religious identity.

The Sydney Opera House, as well as quickly becoming a distinctive cultural landmark in that city, gave the company a permanent performance home and thus helped to expand its repertoire and develop local audiences.

Astorga lies in the area of the Maragatos, a small ethnic and cultural community with distinctive customs and architecture.

However, decentralization has been viewed critically by some, who claim that in dividing up regions, administrators have at times ignored the distinctive cultural and historical factors that define different areas.

The Picard ( the local inhabitant and traditionally Picard language speakers ) cultural heritage includes some of the most extraordinary Gothic churches ( Amiens and Beauvais cathedrals or Saint-Quentin basilica ), distinctive local cuisine ( including ficelle picarde, flamiche aux poireaux, tarte au maroilles ), beer ( including from Péronne's de Clercq brewery ) and traditional games and sports, such as the longue paume ( ancestor of tennis ), as well as danses picardes and its own bagpipes, called the pipasso.

Duality implies distinctive cultural development while unity implies common purpose and community.

Most Hui, although they are not ethnically Han Chinese, are similar in culture to Han Chinese with the exception that they practice Islam, and have some distinctive cultural characteristics as a result.

* The distinctive nature of cultural goods, services and activities as vehicles of identity, values and meaning ;

Local film and digital media agency Screen West Midlands referred to the event as “ Personal, Instinctual & Organic Video Poetry of everyday life .” The event was a way of embracing the Black Country's distinctive cultural characteristics in the medium of film.

The unusually form of this tomb shows the distinctive cultural aspects that Altun Ha and the Caribbean zone had compared to the inland Classic Maya sites.

Just as the national and state parks place emphasis on features which are of national or state significance, counties should seek out these features which are distinctive of their area.

A tabulation of these features permits the lungs to be grouped into three distinctive subgross types.

Nonetheless Canadian English also features many British English items and is often described as a unique blend of the two larger varieties alongside several distinctive Canadianisms.

Such literature is " marked by distinctive literary features, particularly prediction of future events and accounts of visionary experiences or journeys to heaven, often involving vivid symbolism.

The verbal system lacks a distinctive future tense ( the present tense serves here ) and features special forms to express an action performed by an undetermined subject ( the " impersonal ").

Because of the large local market for films in Russia, the industry there was not harmed by the war at first, although the isolation of the country led many Russian films to develop peculiarly distinctive features.

Fox-like features typically include a distinctive muzzle ( a " fox face ") and bushy tail.

The method combined empiricism and inductivism in a new way that was to imprint its signature on many of the distinctive features of modern English society.

Character generation is mostly random, and features one of the game's most distinctive mechanics, the mutation tables.

The vast majority of them remain unknown outside the Greek borders due to the lack of knowledge and the highly localized distinctive features.

The use of cadency marks to difference arms within the same family and the use of semy fields are distinctive features of Gallo-British heraldry ( in Scotland the most significant mark of cadency being the bordure, the small brisures playing a very minor role ).

A hero ( heroine is always used for females ) (), in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, their cult being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.

Archaeologists and historians attempting to trace the origins of these villagers have found it impossible to identify any distinctive features that could define them as specifically Israelite – collared-rim jars and four-room houses have been identified outside the highlands and thus cannot be used to distinguish Israelite sites, and while the pottery of the highland villages is far more limited than that of lowland Canaanite sites, it develops typologically out of Canaanite pottery that came before.

The geology and geomorphology of the area is complex and the islands and the surrounding sea lochs each have distinctive features.

... hardly, as yet, assumed the distinctive features of an island.

Many karst regions display distinctive surface features, with cenotes, sinkholes or dolines being the most common.

However, distinctive karst surface features may be completely absent where the soluble rock is mantled, such as by glacial debris, or confined by one or more superimposed non-soluble rock strata.

These differences in relief, together with stretches of water interspersed with forests, fields, and pastures are the main features that make the landscape so distinctive.

Predicate logic has been described as combining " the distinctive features of syllogistic logic and propositional logic.

Many users fondly remember the LEO III and enthuse about some of its quirkier features, such as having a loudspeaker connected to the central processor which enabled operators to tell whether a program was looping by the distinctive sound it made.

The spectra of stars were shown to have distinctive features, which allowed them to be categorized.

Similarly, aggression between members of the same sex is sometimes associated with very distinctive features, such as the antlers of stags, which are used in combat with other stags.

* Common law's main distinctive features and focus were not substantial law, which was customary law, but procedural.

Regardless, the Indian cards have many distinctive features: they are round, generally hand painted with intricate designs, and comprise more than four suits — often as many as thirty two, like a deck in the Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum, painted in the Mewar, a city in Rajasthan, between the 18th and 19th century.