academic essays

history

Historiography

• Richard Southern: the Discreet Revolutionary: PDF
• English Church History: a Historiographical Approach: PDF
• Microhistory and Macrohistory: Different Approaches to the Analysis of History: PDF
• Ken Burns: Film as History, History as Narrative: PDF
• The 'Ulama and the Mamluks: Historiography, Methodology and Themes: PDF

Ancient

• Odysseus and Themistocles: PDF
• Women in Classical Greece: PDF

Medieval

• Holy Wars: the Origins and Effects of the Crusades: PDF
• St Benedict of Nursia: the Birth of Western Monasticism: PDF
• Abelard the Scholar: PDF
• The Tragedy of Heloise: PDF
• Monasticism in Angevin England: PDF
• Religious Women and the Church in the Twelfth Century: PDF
• Gerald of Wales and the Angevin Kings: PDF

Spirituality Series:

• The Theme of Obedience in the Miracles of Sainte Foy: PDF
• Demons and Monks in Guibert of Nogent: PDF
• The Intent of the Companions of St Francis: PDF
• Margery Kempe: PDF
• Medieval Conceptions of Sin: PDF

Cities Series:

• Galbert of Bruges: PDF
• Dino Compagni's Chronicle of Florence: PDF
• Henry Knighton and the Peasants' Revolt: PDF
• Urban Violence in the Middle Ages: PDF

Black Death Series:

• The Great Famine: PDF
• The Great Transformation?: PDF
• Narratives of Plague: PDF
• The Armies of the Black Death: PDF
• Remembering the Rebels: PDF
• After the Black Death: PDF

Modern

• Sir Thomas More: Scholar, Statesman and Saint: PDF
• Accounts of Witchcraft in 16th Century England: PDF
• King Oliver: the English Interregnum: PDF
• Montesquieu and Rousseau: Enlightened Revolutionaries: PDF
• Lenin: Revolutionary Leader Ð His Impact on Russia & the 20th Century: PDF
• Wicked Women: Women and Pre-Code Hollywood: PDF
• The Nazi Leaders: PDF
• Technology, Culture and Economics: Factors in the "Rise of the West": PDF

Middle Eastern

• Qualities of a Good Moslem Leader: PDF
• Non-Muslims in Medieval Muslim Society: PDF
• The Qualities of Good Men in the Ottoman and Saffavid Empires: PDF
• The Impact of Other Cultures on the Islamic Caliphate: PDF
• Memoirs of a Party King: the Tibyan of 'Abd Allah and its Interpretation: PDF

Cities Series:

• The Changing Cities of Medieval Islam: PDF
• The Role of the Madrasa in Mamluk Cities: PDF
• The Jews of Cairo: PDF

OTHER

Geography

• Oil and the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve: PDF
• The Gold Coast: Constructing a Home in a Californian Dystopia: PDF
• The Geography of the Verdugo Hills and the Eastern Sierras: PDF

Philosophy

• Animals Are Equal?: PDF

Psychology:

• Bipolar II Disorder: PDF

English:

• Motivations in Oedipus Rex and Hedda Gabler: PDF
• "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" Ð G.G. Marquez: PDF
• "Daddy" Ð Sylvia Plath: PDF

Anthropology:

• The Inuit: PDF
• The Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California: An Ethnology of an Event: PDF
• The Archaeology of Navan, Ireland: PDF
• Dharma and Chivalry: The Role of Duty in the Ramayana and Tristran & Iseult: PDF
• Mythology in Leslie Marmon SilkoÕs Ceremony: PDF
• Beer and Renewal: the Fisher King in Tim Powers' The Drawing of the Dark: PDF