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The role of school history in helping young people to navigate their future at a time of climate crisis

August 2024
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Journal article
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History Education Research Journal
The need to prepare school students to respond to the climate and environmental crises is rapidly rising up educational agendas nationally and internationally but the role of the humanities and particularly history is often marginalised. In England, the main context of this article, the climate crisis does not appear on any official history curriculum documentation, reinforcing a separation of nature and culture. This is not surprising given that the climate crisis in general has been engaged with so little reference to the humanities but teaching climate change as a ‘science’ problem rather than a societal one risks exacerbating students’ anxieties and sense of powerlessness. By contrast, humanities subjects, including history, can furnish students with the knowledge and skills to respond in more constructive and critical ways to a crisis that they will experience more acutely than us. We acknowledge and welcome the work that is already underway in school history but we also call for a greater urgency to reform history curricula and provide better support for teachers. Meanwhile, mindful of how painfully slow these processes can be, we also call on history educators and academics to take matters into their own hands and make changes within existing curriculum structures where possible.
Climate crisis, environment, curriculum, teachers, school history, humanities

Climate Change

February 2024
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Internet publication
Climate is produced through the complex dynamics of earth’s interacting systems. It is affected by external forcing, such as volcanic and solar activity. On the planetary scale, two significant climatic regimes prevailed during the period. These are known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly (ca. 800-ca.1260) and the Little Ice Age (ca. 1300-1850). Within these broad tendencies, there was variability at every scale and across time. Advances in the study of past climates bring together proxy data from the ‘archives of nature’, sometimes combining it with evidence from written sources. Historians now have access to a mass of data about conditions from the global to the local, and must address challenging questions about how to understand the relationships between climate change and societal change. Three case studies, Angkor, Cahokia and the Mongol expansion, are given to indicate the probable impacts of changing climates on human societies and the course of historical events. Thinking about how past societies responded to climate change is of great contemporary importance, bringing medievalists into urgent public conversations.
Angkor, Cahokia, climate change, historical climate, medieval climate anomaly, medieval climate variability, Mongol empire

Introduction to Medieval Climate and Environmental Histories

October 2022
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Internet publication
<a href="https://www.bloomsburymedievalstudies.com/article?docid=b-9781350925649&tocid=b-9781350925649-002&st=climate">https://www.bloomsburymedievalstudies.com/article?docid=b-9781350925649&tocid=b-9781350925649-002&st=climate</a>

Francis of Assisi, the Vita Apostolica, and the Roman Church: Rethinking the Paradigms

June 2022
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Chapter
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Between Orders and Heresy: Religious Movements in the Middle Ages Revisited, Revised and Reimagined

Roger Bacon, The greater work

January 2022
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Chapter
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The Bloomsbury Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, 600-1500
This Reader brings together nearly 80 extracts from major works by Christians and Muslims that reflect their reciprocal knowledge and attitudes. It spans the period from the early 7th century, when Islam originated, to 1500.
Religion

Conception and Practices of Knowledge, 500-1450

January 2022
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Chapter
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The Cultural History of Ideas (6 vols.)

The History and Deep Time of Climate Crisis

January 2022
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Journal article
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Worldviews Global Religions Culture and Ecology
4303 Historical Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology

Transforming the "anthropogenic" for climate adaptation and resilience

May 2021
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Poster

Undoing the Discipline: History in the Time of Climate Crisis and COVID-19

December 2020
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Journal article
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Journal for the History of Environment and Society
COVID- gives a fresh urgency to research trajectories around climate and environment in historical research. We use examples from African, Japanese, and medieval European environmental history to chart new ways to mobilise collaborative research into the planetary past in academic and public discussions. Our main points are, first, that COVID- has underlined the entanglements between human and planetary life, which historians must better account for. Secondly, it is pertinent to decentre knowledge production. COVID- and climate crisis are both global phenomena. Yet patterns of knowledge production that propose ‘universal’ frameworks and solutions obscure highly unequal power relations. We call for more plural histories – in time, space, and species – to confront the complex crises of our times.

Notre Dame is Burning: Medieval Futures

January 2019
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Journal article
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Parergon
4705 Literary Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 5004 Religious Studies

Globalizing cosmologies

December 2018
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Journal article
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Past and Present

Per lumen sapientiae: Roger Bacon and the struggle for a hegemonic rationality

June 2018
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Chapter
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Outsiders and Forerunners: Modern Reason and Historiographical Births of Medieval Philosophy

The Uncertainties of Reformers: Collective Anxieties and Strategic Discourses

October 2017
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Chapter
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Thirteenth Century England XVI: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2015
SBTMR

The Friars in Church and State, 1224-ca. 1267

April 2017
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The English Province of the Franciscans (1224-c.1350)
The English province of the Franciscans (1224-c.1350) provides a series of stimulating studies by an international team of scholars, who consider the rich diversity of the friars’ ministry in England, especially their impact upon the ...
History

Encounters in the Ruins: Latin Captives, Franciscan Friars and the Dangers of Religious Plurality in the early Mongol Empire

May 2015
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Chapter
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Christianity and Religious Plurality
This, the fifty-first volume of Studies in Church History, takes as its theme 'Christianity and Religious Plurality'. The focus is on exploring the practical experience of Christians, who have often existed in a world of manifold belief systems and religious practices. Under the Presidency of Professor John Wolffe, the summer conference and winter volume brought together a fascinating series of lectures and communications, a selection of which are collected in this peer-reviewed volume. Three main areas of engagement emerge: contexts where Christianity was a minority faith, whether in the earliest years of the church, in the Mongol empire of the thirteenth century or under Ottoman rule in the fifteenth, or in contemporary Iraq, Egypt and Indonesia; responses to religious minorities in predominantly Christian societies, such as early-modern Malta or nineteenth- and twentieth-century London; and finally, Christian encounters with other religions in situations where no single tradition was obviously dominant. Offering an unusual perspective on Christian encounters with other faiths, this volume will appeal to students of religious studies and those interested in the cultural contexts in which Christianity has existed - and indeed continues to exist.

The Problem of Obedience among the English Friars

June 2014
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Chapter
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Rules and Observance: Devising Forms of Communal Life
This collection of essays focuses on rules and observances in medieval monasteries and provides a survey of how the efficacy of religious communities could be ensured. The book offers a rich variety of perspectives, including the role of exhortatory literature and education, the problem of maintaining obedience, the implementation of reform, the importance of architectural features, the relative merits of the eremitical (religious recluse), and the monastic form of the vita religiosa. While the emphasis is on the history of the Franciscan order between the 13th and 15th centuries, articles on other monastic communities provide a comparative approach. The volume gives a closer insight into European research projects and casts light on manifold aspects of monastic rules and observances as "devising forms of communal life.

The cosmographical imagination of Roger Bacon

January 2014
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Chapter
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Mapping Medieval Geographies
4705 Literary Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 44 Human Society, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 4406 Human Geography

Roger Bacon and the Defence of Christendom

October 2012
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Book
5005 Theology, 4303 Historical Studies, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology

The Importance of Greeks in Latin Thought: the Evidence of Roger Bacon

January 2012
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Chapter
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Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of John Pryor
The cutting-edge papers in this collection reflect the wide areas to which John Pryor has made significant contributions in the course of his scholarly career. They are written by some of the world's most distinguished practitioners in the fields of Crusading history and the maritime history of the medieval Mediterranean. His colleagues, students and friends discuss questions including ship construction in the fourth and fifteenth centuries, navigation and harbourage in the eastern Mediterranean, trade in Fatimid Egypt and along the Iberian Peninsula, military and social issues arising among the crusaders during field campaigns, and wider aspects of medieval warfare. All those with an interest in any of these subjects, whether students or specialists, will need to consult this book.
History

Works on Christian-Muslim relations 1200-1350

January 2012
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Chapter
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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 4 (1200-1350)

The Remedies for Great Danger: Contemporary Appraisals of Roger Bacon's Expertise

May 2011
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Chapter
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Knowledge, Discipline and Power: Essays in Honour of David Luscombe
This collection of essays is based on a conference in honour of David Luscombe held at the University of Sheffield in September 2006 under the title "Knowledge, Discipline and Power in the Middle Ages." The 14 contributions to this Festschrift, by leading scholars in the field, show the strength and variety of recent work on the intellectual history of the middle ages. A group of papers deals with changes in the intellectual landscape during this period. Other papers focus particularly on the theme of jurisdiction, while a third groups deals with knowledge and its uses. The papers fittingly reflect the breadth and inventiveness of David Luscombe's scholarship, and in particular his work on Peter Abelard.

Going among the infidels: the mendicant orders and Louis IX's first Mediterranean campaign

December 2010
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Journal article
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Mediterranean Historical Review
The relationship between Louis IX of France and the mendicant orders is well known. Yet it has generally been studied in order to shed light on Louis' reign rather than on the development of the orders. Contemporaries tended to criticize friars who worked too closely with secular authorities and their suspicions have passed into the historiography. This means that we know less than we might about how friars created and used opportunities to carry out their mission in the wider world. This article considers how Louis and members of the religious orders worked together during his crusade of 1248–54 to bring about the conversion to Christianity of Muslims and Mongols. It looks at the ways in which they drew on ideas of the apostolic life and wider papal agendas, but also employed standard strategies of diplomacy and debate, seizing on a range of opportunities as they arose. A second strand investigates their experiences in the light of scholarship on the Mediterranean and of more global cultural encounters. How far did their time in the Mediterranean and beyond influence the way that they thought about the world and their own faith?

In the Last Days at the End of the World: Roger Bacon and the Reform of Christendom

September 2008
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Chapter
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Canterbury studies in Franciscan history
Religion

Franciscan Advice to the Papacy in the Middle Ages

August 2007
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Journal article
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History Compass
The famous image of Francis of Assisi holding up the falling Church has come to symbolise the nature of the relationship between the Franciscans and the papacy in the thirteenth century. Deliberately manufactured by Franciscan propagandists at a time when they were becoming indispensable in almost every area of Christian activity, it represented a complex set of ideas about medieval spirituality, power and responsibility. This article investigates the ideals, concerns and ambitions of the order through examination of a number of occasions on which prominent Franciscans offered criticism and advice to the papal curia. In the process, light is shed on the anxieties of Christendom in an age of crisis.

A Mirror for Every Age: The Reputation of Roger Bacon

June 2006
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Journal article
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The English Historical Review

Infideles in the Opus maius of Roger Bacon

October 2005
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Chapter
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Travel and Travellers from Bede to Dampier
The essays in this collection -- a selection of papers presented at the University of Sydney Centre for Medieval Studies workshop, Travel and Cartography from Bede to the Enlightenment (August 22-23, 2001) track a variety of travel narratives from the eighth century to the eighteenth. Their voyages, which extend from from the literal to the spiritual, the political, and the artistic, show how the concept of narrative mapping has changed over time, and how it encompasses cosmogony, geography, chorography, topography, and inventory. Each essay is concerned in some way with the application of the medieval geographical imagination, or with the enduring influence of that imagination upon post-medieval travel and discovery writing. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate university students and to a broad range of academics across the disciplines of literature and history. It will be of particular interest to medievalists and scholars of the early modern period and to readers of, the new (1997) scholarly journal, Studies in Travel Writing. The volume will also appeal to a more general, informed readership interested in the history of travel and the history of ideas, early contact with indigenous people, and encounters between East and West.