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1405.More information
SummaryThe intellectual overlapping between the rise of the West, of capitalism and of the modern world is one of the basic elements of our knowledge in the historical social sciences. The phenomenon is generally presented as a great "achievement" ("a miracle") for which an explanation or a moving force must be found. This paper looks into the main recent explanations of what is called the transition from feudalism to capitalism or the birth of modernity, by separating them into analyses of "economic conditions" and analyses of "civilisation". It then asks the question as to whether this process should be designated as miraculous or progressive, or if it would be more fitting to think of it as a monumental failure of social constraints. It points to a four-way conjunction of collapses - of the lords, the States, the Church and the Mongols. This completely unexpected and exceptional conjunction would seem to have been responsable for the birth of the aberrant structure of historical capitalism.
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1407.More information
The cycles devoted to the Anglo-Saxon archiepiscopal Sts Dunstan and Alphege among the late twelfth-century stained-glass Windows of Canterbury Cathedral survive only in nine reduced, rearranged, and displaced scenes. A fresh examination of the scenes in the light of hagiographical accounts, especially those produced at Canterbury by Osbern and Eadmer, makes it possible to identify some scenes more precisely and to propose a likely narrative order for the scenes in both cycles. This reinterpretation helps to illuminate the Anglo-Norman recovery of its Anglo-Saxon heritage at a prominent centre of the English Church.
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