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• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 06 October 2015

The late sixteenth century saw a redrawing of the borders of north-west Europe. Wales and Brittany entered into unions with neighboring countries England and France. This book uses Brittany and

• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

From the moment of God's covenant with Abraham in the Old Testament, the idea that a people are chosen by God has had a central role in shaping national identity.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
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• Release Date : 24 May 2012

The first geographically broad, comparative survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its internal developments, in the

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 13 September 2013

Visions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant studies of the politics of

• Publisher : IAP
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• Release Date : 01 January 2013

How is history represented? As just a record of the past, as a part of a present identity or as future goals? This book explores how historical contents and narratives

• Publisher : Religion, Culture, and Society
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 1999

An innovative, theological study of the sense of holy place?, and the links between nationality, nationalism and spirituality. Is nationalism, fundamentaly opposed to any ideas of equality, tolerance or international

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 17 April 2018

Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe offers a series of studies focusing on how perceptions of community, its shared history and imagined present, created a collective identity in

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 23,8 Mb
• Release Date : 20 February 2015

Under Stalin’s totalitarian leadership of the USSR, Soviet national identities with historical narratives were constructed. These constructions envisaged how nationalities should see their imaginary common past, and millions of

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 25 April 2022

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin, the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period, was beginning to crack

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 05 May 2022

The first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years, 'Writing Welsh History' analyses and contextualizes historical writing,