Article: The artist and the state, 1777-1855; the politics of universal history in British and French painting.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: The Utopian dimension of thought in Deleuze and Guattari.(Part IV: Utopian Theory)(Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Felix Guattari)
Arena Journal;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......inspiration in a version of universal history--the one propounded by Deleuze...in Anti-Oedipus they call universal history. I Perhaps the first thing...said about this version of universal history, which Deleuze and Guattari...

Article: A Witness.(The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century)(Book Review)
National Review;  November 11, 2002 ;     700+ words ...The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century...wars of the 20th century. In a long section of The Dawn of Universal History entitled From Sarajevo to Hiroshima, Aron describes the technological...

Article: Universal history as Reworked by 'Satirikon' and 1066 and All That as parody history textbooks: a suggestion of a literary genre.
The Modern Language Review;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......literature: a parody history textbook Universal History as Reworked by 'Satirikon', published...published a parody history textbook Universal History as Reworked by 'Satirikon'. (2) The...the Russian Satirikon reworking of universal history display such remarkable similarities...

Article: Books and war in Poland.(Brief article)
Sarmatian Review;  January 1, 2009 ;     31 words ...Estimated number of books destroyed in Poland from 1939 through 1941: 15,000,000. Source: John Leonard, review of A Universal History of the Destruction of Books, Harper's Magazine, September 2008.

Article: Ordericus Vitalis
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      55 words ......He spent most of his life in Saint-Évroul in Normandy. His Ecclesiastical History (4 vol., tr. 1853-56; repr. 1968), a universal history to 1143, is valuable for a study of the Normans in England, France, and Italy and for the history of his own times. Bibliography...

Article: Ephorus
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      38 words ..., c.405-330 BC, Greek historian, b. Cyme in Aeolis; pupil of Isocrates. His chief work is a universal history, in 30 books, of which only fragments survive, arranged by subjects. He was widely quoted by the ancients, notably by Diodorus Siculus.

Article: Abu al-Fida
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      51 words ......period of the Crusades and later became (1310) governor of Hama in Syria. He was a patron of learning and wrote a descriptive geography and a universal history, which is a superior source for Arab history from the pre-Islamic period to 1329.

Article: Polybius
A Dictionary of World History;      37 words ...Polybius ( c. 200– c. 118 BC) Greek historian. After an early political career in Greece, he was deported to Rome. His 40 books of Universal History (only partially extant) chronicled the rise of the Roman Empire from 220 to 146 BC.

Article: Orosius
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable;      39 words ...Orosius (fl. early 5th century), a priest of Tarragona in Spain, disciple of St Augustine and friend of St Jerome, author of the Historia Adversos Paganos , a universal history and geography which was translated by the circle of King Alfred in the 890s.

Article: Leopold von Ranke
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      469 words ......the culmination of his life work was his Weltgeschichte [universal history] (9 vol., 1881-88). The great body of Ranke's writing is...-90) of his complete works numbered 54 volumes without the universal history. Politically a conservative and a monarchist, Ranke did...

Article: The idea of universal history in Greece; from Herodotus to the age of Augustus.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Reference & Research Book News;  February 1, 2007 ;     119 words ...([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) 9004156461 The idea of universal history in Greece; from Herodotus to the age of Augustus. Alonso-Nunez, Jose Miguel. J.C. Gieben 2006 152 pages $54.00 Hardcover D16 Alonso-Nun...

Article: Higden, Ranulf
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      50 words ......popular tradition with the composition of the Chester Cycle of mystery Plays. He wrote in Latin prose Polychronicon , a universal history extending down to 1327, which was translated by John of Trevisa in 1387 and printed by Caxton in 1482.

Article: Jinasena
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;      70 words ......Digambara Jain writer. His major work was the Mahāpurāṇa (The Great Purāṇa ), an attempt at a universal history—Jinasena finished only the first part; it was completed by his pupils. The work gives an account of Mahāv...

Article: Ranulf Higden
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      72 words ...d. c.1364, English chronicler. He wrote the Polychronicon, a universal history, interesting chiefly for its display of the geographical, scientific, and historical knowledge of its time. It was translated from...