Many authorities state that the development of macabre images were a result of the plague that first swept through western Europe 1347-1350. However, many aspects of the macabre were already in place prior to the plague. A more realistic explanation for the macabre is in the modification of religious belief,...
The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate
and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life
and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh,
Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is
developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas.
The mutual-aid...
Prior to advent of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest,
the Middle Columbia River Basin was the location of highly
developed native cultures. For centuries it was the center
of very important native trade networks that extended over
western North America and a site of important intertribal
rituals relating to renewal...