This volume is based on three years of teaching experiments with a group of primary school students as they progressed from the 3rd to the 5th class (ages 9 to 12). Whereas traditional pedagogical approaches focus on the nature of the subject matter being taught, Hedegaard assumes that any teaching program ought to incorporate children's everyday concepts and motivations. She relates this 'double move' in teaching to situated learning and ...

Hojte finds among other things that imperial portrait statues are connected chiefly with urban centres; that they were raised continuously during a given reign, with a higher concentration a couple years after accession; that a primary purpose was often to advertise a donor's merits; and that they increased six-fold in frequency from Augustus to Hadrian, an increase attributable to community dedications. ...

In 31 BC, four years before he became Caesar Augustus, Octavian founded Nikopolis to commemorate his naval defeat of Antony and Cleopatra in nearby Actium. To people this 'City of Victory', he compelled the inhabitants of Greek cities in the surrounding area to forsake their homes and take up residence in Nikopolis.<P>What was the state of these cities beforehand, and to what extent were they actually abandoned? The papers in the present ...

N.F.S. Grundtvig, a chief shaper of Denmark's modern identity and still an active force in Danish social, political and religious life, was an outstanding intellect of the European 19th century. As new-Europe reviews the old traditional cultural canon, reflective of the most dominant nations, interest grows in Grundtvig. The book comprises English translations of an extensive selection of Grundtvig's own retrospect upon events, causes and ...

The main aim of the book is to provide a forum for opinions held by Arabs who are neither Western puppets nor fanatical nationalists or Islamists, but rather academics with a vast knowledge of the Middle East as well as of the West. The authors all support the building of a democratic secular Middle East, but their writings also show that although there is no easy way to achieve this goal, neither is there any excuse for not making the attempt. ...

The volume concludes with a brief survey of archaeological evidence for the direct social and political impact of Plotinus' thought on his own age. ...

The two volumes of The Archaeology of Medieval Europe together comprise the first complete account of medieval archaeology across Europe. The books are comprehensively illustrated throughout, in both color and b/w, including line drawings and specially commissioned maps. This groundbreaking set, which is divided chronologically into two volumes (vol 2 - 12th-16th centuries, to appear 2008), will enable readers to track the development of ...

Over a 20 year period, the excavations at Illerup in eastern Jutland have brought to light a sacrificial deposit of more than 1500 Iron Age weapons, Roman as well as Germanic. The first two volumes form part of the excavation report, a chronological framework is sketched out and the weapons from Illerup are compared with finds from other Northern European sites. These third and fourth volumes deal with personal ornaments, shields and swords. The ...

During the latest 100 years many legal historians have contributed to an elucidation of 'legal reception', i.e., receipt and adoption of foreign law, in order to supplement or replace local law. The principal problem has been to clarify the reason why Roman law and Canon law have been able to lay the groundwork for a real common European law. Notarius publicus makes a contribution to this explanation by pointing out and elucidating the function ...

This anthology covers the development of the Danish urban system and urban life during the age of Absolutism, 1660-1848. It features 13 articles written by leading Danish urban historians focussing on economic and cultural urban center functions.
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