Western Europe

Although the historical record is scarce, there is no doubt the Magyars who inhabited the Carpathian basin in the 10th century bore little resemblance to Christians living in Western Europe. Rather, as Muslim, Byzantine, and Western chroniclers noted, they resembled some of the nomadic tribes who had previously pillaged Europe such as the Huns and Avars. Regino, Abbot of Prüm, wrote of the Magyars that, “They spend all their time on horseback; they travel, rest, think and talk on their horses;…

Renaissance affected the flowering of culture in Europe socially with the revival of Greek and Roman arts as well as humanistic beliefs, politically with the flowering of arts affecting the leaders of cities and with the growth of the church, and economically in a lack of emphasis placed on wealth and an influx of improved inventions. Ancient Greek and Roman aspects, such as art and humanism, resurfaced during the Renaissance and affected Western Europe socially. An Italian scholar, Marsilio…

development of tools and art, to the creation of the first civilizations like those in Ancient Mesopotamia to great western civilizations that have derived during the time like Ancient Greece and then Ancient Rome. But society was not always structural in which technology kept rising for the better. The Dark Ages or better known as the Middle Ages, this is a time in history in Europe that came directly from the fall of the Ancient Roman Empire. It is referred as the Dark Ages because according…

Crusade was a conflict between the Christians of Western Europe and the Muslims of Jerusalem. The Crusade was initiated in 1095 by Pope Urban II in response to the Byzantine emperor's call for help defending against the invading Seljuk Turks. On November 27, 1095, in Clermont, France, Pope Urban II called for a crusade both to help the Byzantines defend the Turks and to conquer Jerusalem. From the First Crusade, Europe made great economical gains. Europe benefited from the First Crusade more…

Westerns have come a long way since the silent film days and the original western, The Great Train Robbery in 1903. Today, modern technology has allowed westerns to become more thrilling, more daring, and more action packed than ever before, and none of this is more true than for Django Unchained(2012) directed by Quentin Tarantino and the TV show Firefly(2002), created by Joss Whedon. While both embrace new and interesting twists to the genre, both still feature many of the classic themes…

The concept of myth influences many cowboy narratives. Especially Hollywood movies are full of mythical elements of the American West. Although myths will play a minor role in the analysis of the cowboy biographies, it is necessary to mention some theories of myth and to elaborate on its definition. Historian Richard Slotkin gives an excellent characterization of myth in his book Gunfighter Nation, which will be used for further elaboration. Myths are stories drawn from a society’s history that…

Gizem Kızılcık COMD 322 My Darling Clementine My Darling Clementine (1946), is a Western style of retelling story within shoot-outing at OK Corral. It was directed by John Ford and based on a classic book by Stuart N. Lake. It was transformed from a story by Sam Hellman and it was turned into a screenplay by Samuel G. Engel (also; producer) and Winston Miller. Also, Cyril J. Mockridge made music of the movie. Joseph MacDonald was director of photography and finally,…

played out throughout the decades in film, the Western is no different. While other countries have adopted their own versions, the American Western has qualities can only be interrupted as American. While playing out the the fight against evil, greed, and taming of the frontier, the Western was also depicting America’s thoughts about itself. Like the films, the nation was fraught with conflict for what ideals it should stand for. As time went on the Western took on other themes that were coming…

The Edge of a Western How does a Western film look when it is written backwards and the themes are put on their head? This is how Jim Jarmusch envisioned his take on the Western when he directed Dead Man. The film is about an ordinary accountant William Blake, played by Johnny Depp, who is traveling to the town of Machine to start a new life. When Blake finds that there is no job for him, a set of unfortunate circumstances forces him into becoming a wanted man. Along with an American Indian…

could be as gripping of a western film as ‘Hell or High Water,’ in today’s pop culture, you would tell me that I was crazy. The stellar performances of two unstoppable bank robbers, Chris Pine and Ben Foster, and a Texas ranger out on his last case before retirement, Jeff Bridges, make this dream a reality. Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster, and Chris Pine star in a revolutionary movie that was created to bring back a culture of western films. It is bound to be a classic western heist movie, and might…