Periods of history

S3ii --------- welcome to A2K. there is a wealth of knowledge here and suitable brains to pick.

The 3 periods of English History you mentionn have of course been well documented. The time of William The Conquerer was in many many ways a new begnning of course. The Doomsday Book
is full of stuff detailing the whole country

http://www.britannia.com/history/monarchs/mon22.html

The Tuder era was very political, bloodthirsty & the early beginnings of discovering America. Shakespeare of course chronicled much of it.

http://www.englishhistory.net/tudor.html

Victorian period saw much social, political, industrial change. Much of it can be gleaned from writers as diverse as Dickens & Trollop.

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/illustrationov.html

Browsing points that will lead you elsewhere. Have fun

s3ii

Welcome here at A2K!

As olk already said, you really named some of the best researched periods in English history.

Well, actually the period at the times of Wlliam the Conquerer is called "Norman period" (before, it was the "Saxon period").

Do you have special questions (on special subjects, like art, law, economy, education etc.) or are you just looking for some more general, broader information?

It seems that perhaps I've been a bit misunderstood. I wanted to know about your [referring to everyone that frequents this forum] historical interests. If that's not allowed, please forgive my ignorance.

Well, my special interests are - since I live here - more focussed on Europe. I like especially 19th century and Meddle Ages.


And, here are of course no restrictions re questions.

13th century, expansion of the mongolian empire

and

the history of the ancient mesopotamia

14th and 15th Century religious and intellectual history. Specifically the cults of saints and relics, and lay piety in the Rhine Valley. That's nice and broad, isn't it?

'Rhine valley' in German means just the part of the upper Rhine in Switzerland down to the Lake of Constance. You aren't really specialised on this region? :wink:

More the Upper Rhine, but the field is wide enough that I tend to sweep quite widely. I tend to stay northern and central, however, because the Swiss have been done to death. Many people tend to sweep widely either in timespan, region, or both. Some, like Steve Ozment, focus on a specific region (Nuremberg) and a specific period(the 16th Century). Others, like Jeff Hamburger, cover a wider conceptual area (the use of devotional materials in cloistered female communities in "the Germanies" in the 14th century). My particular interests lie in the changes that occurred in popular pietistic uses of relics in the era following the advent of Plague. My choice of area for study is twofold:
-The availability of primary source material.
-My personal attachments to Germany.

This way I have an excuse to spend most of next summer at the MGH in Munchen, and to go wandering photographing inscriptions in churches.

As for the "German" usage of Rhine Valley, that is more specifically topographical. Many in the US use the term (apparrently incorrectly) to mean the entire river course. My own interests lie in the region between Koln and Mainz. What term would you prefer that I use?

Welcome, s3ii - I love the period of the English Renaissance...what about you?

I love the era of 18th-19th centuries in or relating to Central Europe - Frederick the Great, Russian Empress Catherine, and Austrian Maria Therezia, Joseph II., and later the Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Joseph, Bismarck and his alliances, and such. Fun stuff.

"Mittelrhein" it is in the northern part, while the southern towards Mainz is called "Rheinhessen". Well, and the Northrhine-Westphalian part is just called "Rheinland".

When you are in Germany, I wouldn't say "Rheintal" at all when you don't mean that part from the spring to the 'Bodensee'. "Rhein" will be okay for those parts, you 'prefer'.
:wink:


I would like to offer you some help, but
a) I live in another part of Germany*
b) Most probably you know much more about that period/region/subject than my just more general knowledge.



*My wife id from the Rhineland, however, and my old hometown was one of the four 'capital' towns of the Dukedom of Westphalia, which belonged to Cologne.)

Kein Problem, Walter. Its always good to know others are interested in one's field, even pereipherally (I find myself turning into the cloistered academic more each year!) . And besides, who else would have gotten my Albigensian Crusade joke on another thread?

Most of my professional work in in 17th and 18th century North America. But for relaxation my interests are in the period in Britain from 350 to 800, or from the collapse of Roman power in Britain to the rise of the Kingdom of Wessex as the dominant power on the Island.

Im a nut for paleo , through woodland culture of NAs and pre rev-(French/ndian war through war of 1812)

In the continental arena , Im fascinated by the Enlightenment and the great schisms . Minor but passionate interest in history of mathematical and scientific discoveries , for after all "Physics is the only science, all else is stamp collecting"

My "for fun" interests include WWII military aviation history,and the introduction of Karate from Okinawa to Japan in the 1920s and 1930s.

wax on--- wax off.

my study was in the dpt of history but it was really mostly current affairs. central and eastern europe post-ww2 - communist times and post-89 democracy. bit of soviet times after 17, too. browsed into too many aspects to be an expert on any one specific issue, tho.