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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 166–168.
Published: 01 April 2020
... not share the space-time of which I speak. This space-time is that of northern India in 1984–85. A political party had reorganized itself in the 1970s and begun to offer nationalist/racist interpretations of events of the fifteenth century that had transpired in the subcontinent. The party began a campaign...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 187–207.
Published: 01 October 2020
...-printed texts composed in Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Coptic in Damascus and Egypt, with production dates estimated between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. But key questions about the technological import of these objects remain unexplored. Is there evidence that the ghurabā’ produced amulets...
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 April 2025
... lands since the middle of the fifteenth century. In 1476 thousands revolted in the Tauber Valley, stirred by Hans Böhm, a visionary shepherd known as the Drummer of Niklashausen, whose call for the abolition of clerical and feudal privileges ended with his burning at the stake; from 1493 to 1517...
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 14–38.
Published: 01 April 2025
... Martin Luther kairos The Peasants’ War of 1525 was the culmination of a series of peasant and urban uprisings that began in the late fifteenth century in what is now southwestern Germany. These uprisings were accompanied by numerous strikes in the major mining district. The battle...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 April 2020
... officially disavowed in Ethiopia since the 1974 revolution, which brought to power the Marxist-Leninist military junta known as the Derg, most laws in the country remain significantly influenced by a fifteenth-century document called the Feteha Negest (FN). This stems from the incorporation of legal...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 9–27.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the ninth and fourteenth centuries, resulting in some Romani communities settling in the region. Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in the fifteenth century arrived in Transylvania through the Balkans from the Ottoman Empire, adding to the Jewish population already in Transylvania. They were followed...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 184–207.
Published: 01 October 2016
... is that in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, most ships carried both women and children, but given the small proportion of voyages that include data on sex ratio, that conclusion feels tenuous at best. 60.0 57.5 55.0 52.5 50.0 47.5 45.0 42.5 40.0 37.5 35.0 j., 32.5 30.0 27.5 25.0 22.5 20.0 17.5 15.0 12.5 10.0 7.5 5.0...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 192–218.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of society. As William J. Courtenay discerningly notes, “By the fifteenth century these ‘escape plans’ were well worked out, with countryside manors designated as places of retreat for continuing education” ( 703–4 ). Through the centuries that followed, the plague was a recurring terror in not just...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 April 2018
... these two mi­ norities, based on the similaritybetween Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter, nevertheless also has a history-one that is too often eclipsed by the contem­ porary stress placed upon conflict and incompatibility. Thus, for example, in the fifteenth century a Jewish ritual slaughterer consulted...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 32–62.
Published: 01 April 2016
... "the Royal Cycle;' in which Helene appears as the reincarnation of Marie Antoinette; "the Martian Cycle;' in which Helene speaks in the language of a Martian sage describing life on his distant planet; and "the Hindoo Cycle;' in which Helene incarnates the spirit ofa fifteenth-century Arab princess...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 57–98.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., such as sacred manuscripts, lamps, and herds that could be transported and moved; fewer of them gave land.16 In the earlier centuries, men gave the more plentifully available and cheaper object-land. From the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries, when Central Asian (and Muslim) soldiers and traders established...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 60–79.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of the fifteenth, and more specifically, his act of establishing a secular notion of the human founded, as she terms it, on the “degodding” of the subject. Wynter names secularization itself as the source of a series of traumatizing decisions regarding human subjectivity catalyzed and developed further...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 119–139.
Published: 01 October 2013
... in Istanbul pushed back against the narrative elision ofthe Ottoman past, orchestrating public commemorations of the fifteenth-century Ottoman conquest of Constantinople.15 The project ofrenarrating the nation's history has remained responsiveto political transformations in the present. Commemorations ofthe...
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 April 2025
... to the distance of the upper classes from God. From the mid-fifteenth century (ca. 1450) through approximately 1630, the economy and population of German lands experienced a period of marked expansion ( Baylor, The German Reformation 4 ). These years saw a “price revolution” in which ballooning inflation...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 122–147.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., and in some cases the actual descendants, of a revolutionary movement that emerged in fifteenth-century Moravia and Bohemia (the part ofthe world that today we call the Czech Republic). A century before the Protestant Reformation, the most radical followers of Jan Hus, including the political visionary Petr...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 20–49.
Published: 01 April 2024
... racialized (re)productive accumulation. Through a richly detailed historical narrative based on a variety of archives, Federici demonstrates the intensive dispossession of women’s reproductive bodies and labor power beginning in the fifteenth century, and explores the violent destruction of what she calls...
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 April 2016
... the fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries; a Dutch cycle, from the late sixteenth through most ofthe eighteenth century; a British cycle, from the latter half of the eighteenth century through the early twentieth century; and;' Arrighi concludes, "a U.S.cycle, which began in the late nineteenth century...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 31–64.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., however, though far less famil­ iar, is the closet's role in defining notions of virtual sociability during the eighteenth-century shift from manuscript to print culture. Though William Caxton had brought the printing press to England in the late fifteenth cen­ tury, it took another three hundred years...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 81–107.
Published: 01 April 2024
... violence in the text. Early in the narrative Jacobs explains that, as she entered her fifteenth year, her master, Dr. Flint (James Norcom), began to “whisper foul words in my ear” (33), pressing her to submit to sexual demands. His pursuit proving relentless, Jacobs bears children to a different white man...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 4–33.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Venus” stages a scene that is at once mythical and historical, visually citing Sandro Botticelli’s famous fifteenth-century painting, “The Birth of Venus,” as a means of narrating the voyage of an enslaved African woman from Angola to the West Indies. “Sable Venus” thus overlays the historical reality...
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