Christianization

The Roads of Reykjavik “In regard to the horizon, it is nothing that is in between and it is this nothing that you look at when you forget that you are looking out the window. You are not just looking, you are just thinking. But you don’t see anything. This is where you as the observer, create your own image, according to your own knowledge and experiences.” - George Gundi, Horizons. The day began as it ended. Looking through the window of Geocamp, watching the seemingly endless horizon.…

Rebecca Goetz in her book The Baptism of Early Virginia examines how Virginia planters manipulated their Christianity to create an idea of race. This new ideology “effectively re-imagined what it meant to be Christian, but they also invented an entirely new concept- what it meant to be white.”(Goetz, 2) Skin color became the prominent factor in what Goetz calls “hereditary heathenism,” which she defines as the permanent incompatibility of Africans and Native Americans with Christianity. This…

Nations today strive to resemble the Roman Empire. The commonwealth not only completed marvelous engineering feats, but also developed a system of government that allowed for prosperity among its citizens. This was mainly possible because of influential leaders that steered the empire. The first ruler, Augustus, was a merciless rebel early in his career, but soon became an astute general by winning numerous wars and uniting the people in his empire. After more than a century of Augustus’s reign…

The Spanish and New England Colonies The Spanish and New England colonies were both only slightly similar and significantly different in terms of religion because of the varying beliefs on the numerous visions of salvations and the massive weight of control by the European church leaders. Along with the religious beliefs of both colonies, the colonists both had fairly different views and precedents on the native people and their homelands, the interactions between the Natives and the…

As of 1450, after the Great Convergence of the world that took place in the wake of the Columbian Crossings, a new system was developed- The Atlantic Rim. It all started when the European sailors explored the Eastern Atlantic to fulfill their profit-seeking objectives. These European sailors sailed to look for islands or African coastal points where they might trade, raid, fish or even settle. Their main objective was to make maximum profit out of the African territories and use their…

Most works of literature written throughout history reflect the time period and the events that were unfolding in that age. Beowulf is a sixth-century Scandinavian epic passed down by many generation of scops, and eventually written on paper by an unknown source. At the time in history when the epic was written, the Anglo-Saxons had already become Christianized in their faith, still, there was an undertone of Pagan elements in the religion. Since the Pagan influences had dominated Europe for…

Knowledge is Power: A Brief Study of Colonial Indian Schools In the early years of English settlement in North America, a push to establish educational institutions for Indians grew in an attempt to ameliorate the relationships between colonists and their neighboring tribes. Indian schools developed in several places, but most notably in the Massachusetts at Harvard and in Virginia at the College of William and Mary. For both institutions, the funding came from the will of Sir Robert Boyle, a…

I. Introduction Colonization of Africa by European countries was a monumental milestone in the development of Africa. The African community considers the impact of colonization on them to be perhaps the most important factor in understanding the present condition of the African continent and of the African people. The historical background of the colonial period in Africa may be traced back to the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade by the British in 18th century (Oduwobi, 2011). Interest…

Jelling: Jelling still requires the representation of animals on decorated items, but this time, they are “S” shaped and interlaced with spiral hips, profiled heads and pigtails. With this style, it appears like both Borre and Jelling are overlapping and most of the time used on the same object. This style was predominant in the 10th Century AD. Mammen: This style was very much present in the second half of the 10th century. The Mammen style was called after a grave site found in the village of…

Akshat Seth Prof. Alok Bhalla Romanticism Of Diatribes, Revolution and Pacifism Reflections on the reconcilability of Shelley’s ideas of radical change and pacifism through a look at his first long poem Queen Mab with respect to the socio-political context of the French Revolution and its aftermath. It is somewhat ironic to state that Shelley, ‘the true child of the revolution’1 was also a pacifist. Ironic, since the very French Revolution which is cited by most as one…