Volume: 31 Issue: 2
Contents of History Today, February 1981 |
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February, 1981 marks the fifth centenary of the inauguration of the Spanish Inquisition. Over the years many myths and misconceptions have grown up around the... |
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More witches were executed in the German-speaking territories than in any other part of Europe. Why was the German witch-hunt, asks H.C. Erik Midelfort, so... |
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Robert Stephens continues our series on the Makers of the 20th Century, with a look at how Nasser left his mark on nearly twenty years of Egyptian, Arab and world... |
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Juliet Gardiner continues our Monument series, welcoming the opening of Linley Sambourne’s house in London as one of the few city house museums to show us the habitat... |
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The career of Colonel Fernando Santos Costa explodes the myth of Salazar's Portugal as a politically stable country with 'no history'. In charge of Portugal's army... |
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Geoffrey Parker concludes our two-part feature on the European Witchcraze Revisited. |
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Maggie Black looks at the cultural history of three February menus, based as much on show as the cooking. |
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Irene Coltman Brown begins this series on the historian as philosopher by taking a look at the Greek historian known as the Father of History. |
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David G. Chandler discusses the logistics of Military History. |
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Comparisons between the English and Scottish witch-hunts have been drawn from as early as 1591. Using recent research on the subject from both sides of the border,... |
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The artistic images of women depicted as witches were varied and constitute unusual 'pieces of history' by preserving a visual record of the intellectual origins... |
