What was perhaps more important than his concept of the nature of history and the historical method were those forces which shaped the direction of his thought.

The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon -- such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas.

The concept has a long history in philosophical and ethical thought.

The assembly line concept was independently redeveloped throughout history and not " invented " at one time by one person.

In the 1960s, Robert Mandrou and Georges Duby harmonized the concept of mentalité history with Fernand Braudel's structures of historical time and linked mentalities with changing social conditions.

Modern interpretations view the concept of bretwaldaship as complex and an important indicator of how a 9th-century chronicler interpreted history and attempted to insert the increasingly more powerful Saxon kings into that history.

The defining characteristic of the battle as a concept in Military science has been a dynamic one through the course of military history, changing with the changes in the organisation, employment and technology of military forces.

The concept encompasses a wide range of procedures ( and history ) for modifying living organisms according to human purposes — going back to domestication of animals, cultivation of plants, and " improvements " to these through breeding programs that employ artificial selection and hybridization.

The element air also appears as a concept in the Buddhist religion which has an ancient history in China.

The concept of civilian auxiliaries is similar to civil defense, which has a longer history.

Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

In the 1980s, concept albums also became popular among rock bands like Kiss, with their album, 1981's Music from " The Elder ", which went on to become the group's poorest selling and charting album in their history, primarily because of its radical departure in musical style compared to Kiss's previous offerings.

Belloc was quite explicit in his opposition to Protestantism as a concept and schism from the Catholic Church in general, considering the division of Christendom in the 16th century, as one of the most harmful events in the history of Europe.

It was agreed as international law in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations ( 1961 ), though the concept and custom have a much longer history.

Ecclesia and evangelist portrait s. A number of biblical passages, including those describing Christ as a " bridegroom " led early in the history of the church to the concept of the church as the Bride of Christ, which was shown in art using a queenly personification.

Among the goals of ethnology have been the reconstruction of human history, and the formulation of cultural invariants, such as the incest taboo and culture change, and the formulation of generalizations about " human nature ", a concept which has been criticized since the 19th century by various philosophers ( Hegel, Marx, structuralism, etc .).

Political freedom ( also known as political autonomy or political agency ) is a central concept in Western history and political thought, and one of the most important ( real or ideal ) features of democratic societies.

This section describes the history of the idea of feudalism, how the concept originated among scholars and thinkers, how it changed over time, and modern debates about its use.

Religion is an integral part of the history of this concept.

As a concept, the Golden Rule has a history that long predates the term " Golden Rule ", or " Golden law ", as it was called from the 1670s.

Underlying the dispute among historians are the different assumptions made about the definition or concept of " history " and " historiography ".

The exile community in Babylon thus became the source of significant portions of the Hebrew Bible: Isaiah 40 – 55, Ezekiel, the final version of Jeremiah, the work of the Priestly source in the Pentateuch, and the final form of the history of Israel from Deuteronomy to 2 Kings Theologically, they were responsible for the doctrines of individual responsibility and universalism ( the concept that one god controls the entire world ), and for the increased emphasis on purity and holiness.

country of origin and native land ) is the concept of the place ( cultural geography ) to which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association with — the country in which a particular national identity began.

This goal, of showing the movement towards unity, explains Bede's animosity towards the British method of calculating Easter: much of the Historia is devoted to a history of the dispute, including the final resolution at the Synod of Whitby in 664.

Few would dispute the verdict of James D. Forbes, an editor of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " His scientific glory is different in kind from that of Young and Fresnel ; but the discoverer of the law of polarization of biaxial crystals, of optical mineralogy, and of double refraction by compression, will always occupy a foremost rank in the intellectual history of the age.

The central dispute in the letter concerns the question of how Gentiles could convert to Christianity, which shows that this letter was written at a very early stage in church history, when the vast majority of Christians were Jewish or Jewish proselytes, which historians refer to as the Jewish Christians.

He also gives the reader a short summary of the history of philosophy, including his interpretation of the philosophy of Socrates as part of an ongoing dispute between " cosmologists " admitting the existence of a Universal Truth and the Sophists, opposed by Socrates and his student Plato.

In Germany, awareness of Viking history in the 19th century had been stimulated by the border dispute with Denmark over Schleswig-Holstein and the use of Scandinavian mythology by Richard Wagner.

This left the country without an obvious heir, and led to the succession dispute known to history as the Great Cause.

Ludlow Castle was therefore the site of perhaps the most controversial wedding night in English history, when Catherine's claim that the marriage was never consummated became central to the dispute concerning Henry VIII and Catherine's annulment in 1531.

This geological history probably contributed to the dramatic cichlid speciation that characterises its ecology, as well as that of other African Great Lakes, although some researchers dispute this, arguing while Lake Victoria was at its lowest between 18, 000 and 14, 000 years ago, and it dried out at least once during that time, there is no evidence of remnant ponds or marshes persisting within the desiccated basin.

The " Wapping dispute " or " Battle of Wapping " was, along with the miners ' strike of 1984-85, a significant turning point in the history of the trade union movement and of UK industrial relations.

The history and meaning of the name Guaraní are subject to dispute.

This transfer to Penn was contested by Lord Baltimore and the boundary dispute was not resolved until the survey conducted by Mason and Dixon, now famed in history as the Mason-Dixon Line.

Oral history claims a dispute between merchants was the cause, but the combination of communities in two different counties and two different towns was unwieldy.

Amongst them may be mentioned a history of the dispute with Palamas ; biographies of his uncle and early instructor John, metropolitan of Heraclea, and of the martyr Codratus of Antioch ; funeral orations for Theodore Metochites, and the two emperors Andronicus ; commentaries on the wanderings of Odysseus and on Synesius's treatise on dreams ; tracts ‘ on orthography and on words of doubtful meaning ; a philosophical dialogue called Phlorentius or Concerning Wisdom ; astronomical treatises on the date of Easter, on the preparation of the astrolabe and on the predictive calculation of solar eclipses ; and an extensive correspondence.

The struggle with Silvester was just one event in the long history of the dispute between Canterbury and St Augustine's.

Carnot's talents as ' the organizer of victory ' are beyond dispute, but his tactical skills were minimal, a defect he concealed by a careful rewriting of history.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " The name first appears in early Islāmic history in the dispute over ʿAlī ’ s leadership of the Muslim community after the murder of the third caliph, Hazrat ʿUthmān ' Affan ( 656 ).

Architectural historian Patrick Pinnell includes an in-depth discussion of the dispute over the identity of the original architect in his 1999 history of Yale's campus .< ref >

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In 1411, the nobles retook Flensburg, but in 1412 both sides agreed to a count of Mecklenburg to settle the dispute ( Danish history claims his name was Ulrich of Mecklenburg ).

At the university, Ranke became deeply involved in the dispute between the followers of the legal professor Friedrich Carl von Savigny who emphasized the varieties of different periods of history and the followers of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel who saw history as the unfolding of a universal story.

However, Wilson's view is not supported by Kenneth Kitchen who states: " That the great topographical list of Shoshenq I at Karnak is a document of the greatest possible value for the history and nature of his campaign against Judah and Israel is now clearly established beyond all dispute, thanks to the labours expended on that list by a series of scholars.