Believing in Bits advances the idea that religious beliefs and practices have become inextricably linked to the functioning of digital media. How did we come to associate things such as mindreading and spirit communications with the functioning of digital technologies? How does the internets capacity to facilitate the proliferation of beliefs blur the boundaries between what is considered fiction and fact? Addressing these and similar questions, the volume challenges and redefines established understandings of digital media and culture by employing the notions of belief, religion, and the supernatural.
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• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Introductory Chapters
• Introduction to the Routledge Companion to Big History
• Craig Benjamin, Esther Quaedackers, David Baker
• 1 What is Big History
• David Christian
• Part 1: Big History and Science
• 2 Big History and the Study of Time - Underlying Temporalities of Big History
• Barry Wood
• 3 Big History and Astronomy - The Fermi Paradox
• Jonathan Markley
• 4 Big History and Macro Evolution
• Andrey Korotayev, Leonid Grinin, Alexander Markov
• Part 2: Big History, Social Science and the Humanities
• 5 Big History and Anthropology
• Barry Rodrigue
• 6 Big History and Archaeology
• Brian Fagan
• 7 Big History and Philosophy
• Armando Viso
• 8 Big History and Political Science
• Lowell Gustafson
• 9 Big History and Historiography
• David Baker
• 10 Big History and Critical Theory
• David Blanks
• 11 Big History, Morality and Religion
• Cynthia Stokes Brown
• Part 3: Little Big Histories
• 12 A Case for Little Big Histories
• Esther Quaedackers
• 13 The Little Big History of the Nalon River, Asturias, Spain
• Olga Garcia-Moreno, Diego Alvarez-Lao , Miguel Arbizu, Eduardo Dopico, Eva Garcia-Vazquez, Joaquin Garcia Sansegundo, Montserrat Jimenez-Sanchez, Laura Miralles, Icaro Obeso, Angel Rodriguez-Rey, Marco de la Rasilla Vives, Luis Vicente Sanchez Fernandez, Luis Rodriguez Terente, Luigi Toffolatti, Pablo Turrero
• 14 Sketch of a Little Big History of Private E.E. Benjamin and the Great War
• Craig Benjamin
• Part 4: Teaching Big History
• 15 The Big History Project in Australia
• Tracy Sullivan
• 16 Big History Teaching in Korea
• Seohyung Kim
• 17 Crossing Thresholds: Using Big History to Meet Challenges in Teaching and Learning in the United States
• Robert B. Bain
• Part 5: Big History and the Future
• 18 Big History and the Future of Technology
• Leonid and Anton Grinin
• 19 Big History and the Singularity
• Akop Nazaretyan
• 20 Underground Metro Systems: A durable geological proxy of rapid urban population growth and energy consumption during the Anthropocene
• Mark Williams, Matt Edgeworth, Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Will Steffen, Alexander P. Wolfe, Nicholas J. Minter, Alejandro Cearreta, Agnieszka Galuszka, Peter Haff, John McNeill, Andrew Revkin, Daniel deB. Richter, Simon Price, Colin Summerhayes
• 21 The Coming Energy Transition - What comes after fossil-fueled civilization?
• Joseph Voros
• Index.
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The Routledge Companion to Big History guides readers though the variety of themes and concepts that structure contemporary scholarship in the field of big history. The volume is divided into five parts, each representing current and evolving areas of interest to the community, including big history's relationship to science, social science, the humanities, and the future, as well as teaching big history and `little big histories'. Considering an ever-expanding range of theoretical, pedagogical and research topics, the book addresses such questions as what is the relationship between big history and scientific research, how are big historians working with philosophers and religious thinkers to help construct `meaning', how are leading theoreticians making sense of big history and its relationship to other creation narratives and paradigms, what is `little big history', and how does big history impact on thinking about the future? The book highlights the place of big history in historiographical traditions and the ways in which it can be used in education and public discourse across disciplines and at all levels. A timely collection with contributions from leading proponents in the field, it is the ideal guide for those wanting to engage with the theories and concepts behind big history.
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• Jeux de pouvoir
• Dominer
• Le lobby de la croisade
• Henri VI, empereur jupitérien
• La finance au pouvoir
• Les belles promesses des ducs de Bourgogne
• Le chevalier et la théorie du ruissellement Un trône pour BNP Paribas ?
• Du côté des dominés
• Rien ne serf de courir
• Class-action à Tarascon
• Théories médiévales du complot
• Aux marges du monde
• Les populations
• Non, pas de piercing !
• Faut-il cuire les migrants ?
• Le danger des étiquettes
• Le "multiculturalisme" viking
• Terres inconnues
• Nommer les nouveaux mondes
• À qui la taïga ?
• Le Prêtre Jean et les extraterrestres
• Zheng He ou les risques du repli
• Ecologie
• Domestiquer la nature
• Les marais : ode à l'inculte productif
• Philippe le Bel contre la surpêche Arnaque hydraulique à Milan
• Ménagerie médiévale
• Un éléphant ça trompe énormément ?
• Quand meurent les abeilles
• Les licornes en voie d'extinction
• Gérer les risques
• 1280, l'année du dépassement
• Les crédits carbone, des indulgences contemporaines
• Le mot de la fin
• L'aventure continue
• Famille, genre et sexualité
• Sexualités
• "Les femmes s'épilent pour plaire aux hommes"
• La sexualité des prêtres
• Deux mille ans de planning familial
• Hommes et femmes
• Cougars ou vieilles chiennes ?
• Faut-il dire seigneure ?
• Des chevaliers pucelles
• Enfants
• Des bâtards à foison !
• Mauvais temps pour faire des enfants
• Une fessée et au lit !
• Au jour le jour
• Mode et loisirs
• France-Angleterre, un match de chevalerie
• Vin de France et bière anglaise
• Un selfie avec l'empereur
• Vendre et commercer
• Al-Wusha la banquière
• Les esclaves de Venise
• Le tunnel de la Traversette
• Les mots pour le dire
• Avant le franglais, le danemand ?
• Microstoria et bigdata
• "Filz de... I" ou le "bashing" médiéval
• Léonard de Vinci vous aide à écrire une lettre de motivation
• Religion et culture
• Le fait religieux
• Le saint et le Loto
• Fonder un monastère pour obtenir le paradis fiscal
• Et si le Christ avait été une fille ?
• Pratiques de l'écrit
• Le piège de la table des matières
• Les premiers journalistes étaient-ils de bons marchands ?
• Anachroniques témoins de mariage
• Des cultures en mouvement
• Les statues vivantes ou le tourisme médiéval
• Bravoure, Chevalier, Drone
• La francophonie a 900 ans.

"Qu'ont en commun un sanglant tournoi de chevalerie France-Angleterre et la coupe du monde de football, le royaume oriental du prêtre Jean et la chasse aux aliens ? Tous font résonner l'histoire et notre actualité bouillonnante. De l'enfer de la lettre de motivation à notre obsession pour la fin du monde, en passant par les révoltes contre le pouvoir de la finance, l'écriture inclusive ou les crises écologiques, chaque facette de la modernité trouve ainsi son lointain écho médiéval. Défiant tous les clichés sur une période qui fait souvent l'objet de nombreux fantasmes, Actuel Moyen Âge est de retour et offre - avec un savant mélange d'humour et de science - une plongée dans les profondeurs4de notre histoire ébranlant nos certitudes... sur le monde d'aujourd'hui. Florian Besson, Tobias Boestad, Maxime Fulconis, Pauline Guéna, Simon Hasdenteufel et Catherine Kikuchi sont médiévistes. Leur travail quotidien sur les textes et les images du Moyen Âge les pousse à partager une autre histoire de la période médiévale, à la fois plus complexe et plus ouverte. "Derrière l'évident plaisir de l'entreprise collective, se dévoilent des enjeux cruciaux pour l'histoire d'aujourd'hui et de demain [...] Actuel Moyen Âge est une forme d'intervention savante dans l'espace public qui offre, sur l'environnement, le pouvoir ou la sexualité, un jeu de miroirs entre le Môyen Âge et le monde contemporain [où] l'humour le dispute à l'intelligence collective." Le Monde. -- "--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: reform and the beginning of the end / James T. Palmer and Matthew Gabriele
• The Chronicle of Hydatius of Chavez: a historical guidebook to the last days of the western Roman Empire / Veronika Wieser
• To be found prepared: eschatology and reform rhetoric ca. 570-ca. 640 / James T. Palmer
• The final countdown and the reform of the liturgical calendar in the early Middle Ages / Immo Warntjes
• Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii / Peter Darby
• Creating futures through the lens of revelation in the rhetoric of the Carolingian reform ca. 750 to ca. 900 / Miriam Czock
• Eschatology and reform in early Irish law: the evidence of Sunday legislation / Elizabeth Boyle
• Apocalypse, eschatology and the interim in England and Byzantium in the tenth and eleventh centuries / Helen Foxhall Forbes
• Apocalypticism and the rhetoric of reform in Italy around the year 1000 / Levi Roach
• This time. Maybe this time. Biblical commentary, monastic historiography, and lost cause-ism at the turn of the first millennium / Matthew Gabriele
• Against the silence: twelfth-century Augustinian reformers confront apocalypse / Jehangir Y. Malegam
• Afterword / Jay Rubenstein.

Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides a range of perspectives on what reformist apocalypticism meant for the formation of Medieval Europe, from the Fall of Rome to the twelfth century. It explores and challenges accepted narratives about both the development of apocalyptic thought and the way it intersected with cultures of reform to influence major transformations in the medieval world. Bringing together a wealth of knowledge from academics in Britain, Europe and the USA this book offers the latest scholarship in apocalypse studies. It consolidates a paradigm shift, away from seeing apocalypse as a radical force for a suppressed minority, and towards a fuller understanding of apocalypse as a mainstream cultural force in history. Together, the chapters and case studies capture and contextualise the variety of ideas present across Europe in the Middle Ages and set out points for further comparative study of apocalypse across time and space. Offering new perspectives on what ideas of `reform' and `apocalypse' meant in Medieval Europe, Apocalypse and Reform from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages provides students with the ideal introduction to the study of apocalypse during this period.
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• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: Beyond Chinoiserie Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Jennifer Milam
• 1 The China Trade and the Classical Tradition in Federal America Patricia Johnston
• 2 Jefferson's Interest in China and the Gongs of Monticello Jennifer Milam
• 3 Copying in Reverse: China Trade Paintings on Glass Maggie M. Cao
• 4 Etienne-Jean Delecluze, Art from China, and Nineteenth-Century French Painting Kristel Smentek
• 5 Staging China, Japan, and Siam at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867 Meredith Martin
• 6 Victor Hugo and the Romantic Dream of China Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
• 7 Chrysanthemums and Cultivated Visions of the Victorian Garden Elizabeth Chang
• 8 The Musee d'Ennery and the Shifting Reception of Nineteenth-Century French Chinoiseries Elizabeth Emery
• 9 Fashion, Chinoiserie, and the Transnational: Material Translations between China, Japan and Britain Sarah Cheang
• 10 From Shanghai to Brussels: The Tushanwan Orphanage Workshops and the Carved Ornaments of the Chinese Pavilion at Laeken Park William Ma
• Conclusion Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and Jennifer Milam
• Abstracts and Keywords
• Index.
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The complex interweaving of different Western visions of China had a profound impact on artistic exchange between China and the West during the nineteenth century. Beyond Chinoiserie addresses the complexity of this exchange. While the playful Western "vision of Cathay" formed in the previous century continued to thrive, a more realistic vision of China was increasingly formed through travel accounts, paintings, watercolors, prints, book illustrations, and photographs. Simultaneously, the new discipline of sinology led to a deepening of the understanding of Chinese cultural history. Leading and emerging scholars in the fields of art history, literary studies and material culture, have authored the ten essays in this book, which deal with artistic relations between China and the West at a time when Western powers' attempts to extend a sphere of influence in China led to increasingly hostile political interactions.
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"David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans-the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian-which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks developed, evolving from local exploration to lines of regional communication and commerce and eventually to major arteries. These waterways carried goods, plants, livestock, and of course people-free and enslaved-across vast expanses, transforming and ultimately linking irrevocably the economies and cultures of Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas"-- Provided by publisher.

Takes the singular eco-catastrophic "Age of Man" and redefines this epoch We live in a new world: the Anthropocene. The Age of Man is defined in many ways, and most dramatically through climate change, mass extinction, and human marks in the geological record. Ideas of the Anthropocene spill out from the geophysical sciences into the humanities, social sciences, the arts, and mainstream debates-but it's hard to know what the new coinage really means. Break Up the Anthropocene argues that this age should subvert imperial masculinity and industrial conquest by opening up the plural possibilities of Anthropocene debates of resilience, adaptation, and the struggle for environmental justice. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead.
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• 1. Introduction Gregory Claeys--
• 2. State and individual in political thought Georgios Varouxakis--
• 3. Remaking theology: orthodoxies and their critics John E. Wilson--
• 4. Philosophy in the wake of Hegel Norbert Waszek--
• 5. The origins of the social sciences Mike Gane--
• 6. Historical methods in Europe and America Adam Budd--
• 7. Capitalism and its critics Keith Tribe--
• 8. Individuality, the self, and concepts of mind Roger Smith--
• 9. Social Darwinism Gregory Claeys--
• 10. Feminist thought Wendy Hayden--
• 11. Race and empire in the nineteenth century Saree Makdisi--
• 12. Patterns of literary transformation Norman Vance.
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The nineteenth century was seemingly a period of great progress. Huge advancements and achievements were made in science, technology and industry that transformed life and work alike. But a growing pride in modernity and innovation was tainted by a sense of the loss of the past and the multiple threats which novelty posed. The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought provides an impressive survey of the period's major ideas and trends. Leading scholars explore some of the most influential concepts and debates within philosophy, history, political thought, economics, religion and the social sciences, as well as feminism and imperialism. Some of these debates continued into the following century and many still remain relevant in the present day. This Companion is an excellent tool for readers seeking to understand the genesis of modern discourse across a range of humanities and social science subjects.
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• PART ONE : INTRODUCTION
• 1: Conduct, Habitus, and Practice
• 2: Field of Study PART TWO : THE SOCIAL FIELD
• 3: The Origins of Cortesia
• 4: The Preudomme
• 5: The Preudefemme
• 6: Villeins, Villains, and Vilonie
• 7: The Courtly Habitus PART THREE : STRESS IN COURTLY SOCIETY
• 8: The Insurgent Woman
• 9: The Table
• 10: The Enemy PART FOUR : HEGEMONY
• 11: The Conspiracy of Deference
• 12: The Disruptive Knight
• 13: The Noble Knight
• 14: The Chivalric Virus.
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The Chivalric Turn examines the medieval obsession with defining and practising superior conduct, and the social consequences that followed from it. Historians since the seventeenth century have tended to understand medieval conduct through the eyes of the writers of the Enlightenment, viewing superior conduct as 'knightly' behaviour, and categorising it as chivalry. Using, for the first time, the full range of the considerable twelfth- and thirteenth-century literature on conduct in the European vernaculars and in Latin, The Chivalric Turn describes and defines what superior lay conduct was in European society before chivalry, and maps how and why chivalry emerged and redefined superior conduct in the last generation of the twelfth century. The emergence of chivalry was only one part of a major social change, because it changed how people understood the concept of nobility, which had consequences for the medieval understanding of gender, social class, violence, and the limits of law.
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