abecedarium
Overview page. Subjects: bibliography — early history (500 CE to 1500).
Elementary teaching in Antiquity and the Middle Ages consisted in learning firstly to read the letters of the alphabet. Exceptionally when a child learned to read alone from a text ...
Acadia
Overview page. Subjects: history of the Americas — literature.
A former French colony established in 1604 in the territory now forming Nova Scotia in Canada, ceded to Britain in 1763.
Adolphe Thiers
Overview page. Subjects: literature — general and world history.
(1797–1877).
French journalist, historian, and statesman. The only son of a modest Marseille family, educated at the lycée there and at the law faculty of Aix‐en‐Provence, he rapidly made a ...
Adolphus Peter Elkin
Overview page. Subjects: Australasian and Pacific history — literature.
(1891–1979),
anthropologist, became famous as an authority on Aboriginal culture and a leading influence in changing policies from protection to assimilation in the second quarter of the twentieth...
Adrien Turnèbe
Overview page. Subjects: early modern history (1500 to 1700) — literature.
(1512–65),
French classical philologist. He was born at Les Andelys in Normandy, and at the age of 12 moved to Paris to continue his education. He was appointed professor of ...
Advertiser
Overview page. Subjects: literature — Australasian and Pacific history.
A newspaper, was founded in Adelaide on 12 July 1858 by Congregational minister John Henry Barrow. The South Australian Advertiser, as it was known until 1899, was progressive in tone ...
Afghan wars
Overview page. Subjects: British history — literary studies (19th century).
From 1807, when the armies of Tsar Alexander I reached its northern borders, Afghanistan became an uneasy neutral zone between the Russian and the British Indian empires around which ‘the Great Game’...
Ägidius Tschudi
Overview page. Subjects: early modern history (1500 to 1700) — literature.
(1505–72),
Swiss historian, born into an ancient family in Glarus and educated in Zürich (where he was taught by Zwingli), Basel, and Paris (where he was taught by Lefèvre d'Étaples). ...
Agnès Varda
Overview page. Subjects: history — literature.
(b. 1928),
leading Paris‐based director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and installation artist. Born in Brussels but brought up in France, Agnès Varda has made thirty‐four films (including fourteen...
Agostino Nifo
Overview page. Subjects: early modern history (1500 to 1700) — literature.
(c.1469–c.1546),
Italian Aristotelian philosopher, born in Sessa Aurunca (Calabria) and educated at the University of Padua; he embarked on an academic career during which he taught at Padua (1492–9),...