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De laatste poging tot opstand van de Jacobieten werd in 1715 georganiseerd door de Elfde Earl van Mar. Na de dood van Anna in 1714 koos het Engelse parlement als opvolger de uit het Huis van Hannover afkomstige George I.

Duitse inlichtingendienst wil nazidocumenten geheimhouden

Moet de Duitse inlichtingendienst BND geheime documenten vrijgeven over de ontsnapping van nazi-topman Adolf Eichmann? Over die vraag buigen zich nu drie Duitse rechters. Volgens de BND staat de nationale veiligheid op het spel. Maar kenners zeggen dat er meer aan de hand is. De documenten tonen mogelijk de betrokkenheid van de Duitse overheid en het Vaticaan.

The Right to Punish: Jurisdictional Disputes between Royal and Municipal Officials in Medieval Toulouse

Over the years, scholars have worked to unpack the meaning behind the gory punishments and numerous executions of the later Middle Ages. Most studies have concentrated on how punitive spectacles represented the king's justice and have missed the opportunity to examine the competition over punishment between authorities outside the French royal realm. By studying criminal records from fourteenth-century Toulouse, we gain a sense that royal and municipal officials fought to secure the right to punish criminals because this was one of the most visible means to demonstrate sovereignty to a city's constituents. This article will argue that, as the Capetian monarchy sought in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to expand its legal dominance in newly conquered territories such as Languedoc, the municipal officials of Toulouse continued to execute key criminals (despite jurisdictional limitations) as a means of subverting royal authority in the urban realm.

Abraham Lincoln

David Herbert Donald shows that Abraham Lincoln was a master of ambiguity and expediency - but he also stresses that Abraham Lincoln was a great moral leader, inflexibly opposed to slavery and absolutely committed to preserving the Union.

In memoriam Freya von Moltke

Een in memoriam voor Freya von Moltke (1911-2010), Duits verzetstrijdster die zich onvermoeibaar inzette voor vrede en rechtvaardigheid

Is It about Time?

The theme for the 2008 Social Science History Association conference was "It's about Time." By surveying the program and panels on offer in Miami, the presidential address instead asked, "Is it about time?" Location and space figured more centrally than time in the titles of the conference's many papers. Still, two conceptions of time were prominent features of the program. For some scholars, the past is like a foreign country; it can be compared to the present. For even more of the 2008 presenters, however, interest in time meant a concern with process. The analysis of time reflected on the program seemed to have developed along disciplinary lines. Historians and life-course sociologists analyzed time through narratives, time lines, or periodization. Sociologists dominated the theorization of time as sequential. Time geographers were most explicit in relating time and space, mainly in micro-level analyses. How to visualize and represent time in two dimensions remained an unsettled matter; some disciplines imagined timed processes as narrow or broad (represented along an x-axis), while others analyzed them as shallow or deep (represented along a y-axis). Scholars working with timed media, such as video, may have insights into how to overcome this representational roadblock.

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