1085–1135
in History and the Historians of Medieval Spain
April 1993; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: early history (500 CE to 1500). 21595 words.
Fifty years and a day separated the reconquest of Toledo from the imperial coronation of Alfonso VII, and between the two events — one perhaps a misnomer, the other certainly the cynosure of...
13
in Hindu Law
June 2009; published online October 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: family law. 27307 words.
This chapter discusses the concluding analyses in different sections. The author argues that dismissing Hindu law as a traditional religious system of suppression with no relevance to the...
1653
in Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World
March 2012; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 26177 words.
A new mode of autobiographical narrative was rapidly codified in England and its Atlantic colonies in the 1650s, with a burst of publications. A strict emphasis on methodologies of assent unified...
1770–1788
in Hölderlin
June 1988; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literature. 6538 words.
Friedrich Hölderlin was born on March 20, 1770, in Lauffen, a village on the River Neckar to the north of Stuttgart, Germany. Hölderlin was brought up by women, by his mother and grandmother; later,...
1791
in Marriage and Revolution
June 2012; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: early modern history (1500 to 1700). 5037 words.
This chapter describes the time when Roland is sent to Paris to grapple with Lyon's crippling municipal debt, incurred through exactions under the ancien regime. He lobbies the Constituent Assembly...
1791
in Marriage and Revolution
June 2012; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: early modern history (1500 to 1700). 3302 words.
Mme Roland returns to the Beaujolais with new friend, Sophie Grandchamp. Against expectation, Roland on his return is not elected to the Legislative Assembly by the Lyonnais. The inspectorate is...
1792–1793
in Marriage and Revolution
June 2012; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: early modern history (1500 to 1700). 8606 words.
Despite the split between Brissotins (or ‘Girondins’) and Montagnards in the Convention, briefly discussed, divisions do not concern all policy: this chapter considers Roland's daily work as Interior...
1800–1846
in Interpreting the Musical Past
August 2008; published online September 2008.
Chapter. Subjects: opera. 18383 words.
The chapter begins with a discussion of the French museum concept, moving to an explanation of why the musical survivors from the ancien régime were all Italian or Italianate (mostly Pergolesi and...
1815–1878
in The Classical Mandolin
October 2005; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: opera. 7626 words.
This chapter examines the history and repertoire of the classical mandolin from 1815 to 1878. It discusses the decline of the mandoline and the mandolino as concert instruments and explores the...
1819–1821
in Rossini
October 2007; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: opera. 6142 words.
Shortly after lauding to the skies the dramatically flawed Ricciardo e Zoraide, and just three weeks after acclaiming the revised Mosè in Egitto, the Naples audience gave short shrift to his newest...