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This report analyses the responses to a survey undertaken in May-June 2010 to assess historians&#... more This report analyses the responses to a survey undertaken in May-June 2010 to assess historians' attitudes to the podcasting of research seminars.
The Medieval Chronicle VII, 2011
May 2010 'podcast' on Wikipedia has borrowed a description from the Journalism & Communication Re... more May 2010 'podcast' on Wikipedia has borrowed a description from the Journalism & Communication Research Group at the University of Texas at Austin: 'A podcast is a digital audio or video file that is episodic; downloadable; programme-driven, mainly with a host and/or theme; and convenient, usually via an automated feed with computer software'. 2 It is notable that online lectures and seminars currently provided by universities have utilised this technology as standard. The survey of existing academic podcasting detailed in this report confirms that at present the humanities are highly under-represented in relation to the sciences and that American universities and academic institutions are far in advance in the use of digital media than their UK counterparts. However, this situation is rapidly changing as UK institutionsdriven in part by consumer demand and increased free or cheap access to web 2.0 technologies and in part by the necessities of tightening budgets and increased competition-seek to promote their 'brand' and adapt to changing student and educational demands. The rise of open educational resources (OER) and a new focus by the Research Excellence Framework (REF; previously Research Assessment Exercise 1 OED, 'podcast', http://dictionary.oed.com/ [Last accessed: 16 April 2010]. The quotation is to the noun. The verb 'to podcast' is described as 'to make (a digital recording of a broadcast) available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or personal audio player'.
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 2010
British historians have begun to conceive that there were transformations in the cultural landsca... more British historians have begun to conceive that there were transformations in the cultural landscape of the past during the Protestant Reformation that were more profound in their social and cultural location than those of the Renaissance humanists. 1 This review article explores the impact of those transformations in their English Reformation context. That is not because there was anything necessarily unique to the English experience. Indeed, the opposite was rather the case. Although the two individuals on which we are concentrating, John Bale and John Foxe, have been the object of intense historical and literary scrutiny by Anglo-Saxon scholars over the past two decades, one emerging consequence of it has been to emphasize the degree to which they saw themselves as part of a broader European movement in which a historicized reformation was not simply a polemical adjunct to the theological and doctrinal changes of sola scriptura and sola fide but an emerging, distinctive contribution to the much larger cultural gene pool of "historical consciousness" in the sixteenth century. 2 Humanists had mostly directed their critique rather narrowly towards the academic life and scholastic patterns of thought of their predecessors. The Protestant reformation, by contrast, proclaimed itself a much larger "foundational event" (in the terms proposed by the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur), one that 1. These began with a brilliant Creighton Lecture in London by Keith Thomas in 1982, published as Keith Thomas, The Perception of the Past in Early Modern England, London 1983. He based his work particularly upon the emerging studies about seventeenth century antiquarianism, e. g.
An essay forming part of the John Foxe Project critical apparatus (johnfoxe.org). This essay exam... more An essay forming part of the John Foxe Project critical apparatus (johnfoxe.org). This essay examines the role of Anglo-Norman and Plantagenet kingship in Foxe's Acts and Monuments.
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 2010
This report analyses the responses to a survey undertaken in May-June 2010 to assess historians&#... more This report analyses the responses to a survey undertaken in May-June 2010 to assess historians' attitudes to the podcasting of research seminars.
The Medieval Chronicle VII, 2011
May 2010 'podcast' on Wikipedia has borrowed a description from the Journalism & Communication Re... more May 2010 'podcast' on Wikipedia has borrowed a description from the Journalism & Communication Research Group at the University of Texas at Austin: 'A podcast is a digital audio or video file that is episodic; downloadable; programme-driven, mainly with a host and/or theme; and convenient, usually via an automated feed with computer software'. 2 It is notable that online lectures and seminars currently provided by universities have utilised this technology as standard. The survey of existing academic podcasting detailed in this report confirms that at present the humanities are highly under-represented in relation to the sciences and that American universities and academic institutions are far in advance in the use of digital media than their UK counterparts. However, this situation is rapidly changing as UK institutionsdriven in part by consumer demand and increased free or cheap access to web 2.0 technologies and in part by the necessities of tightening budgets and increased competition-seek to promote their 'brand' and adapt to changing student and educational demands. The rise of open educational resources (OER) and a new focus by the Research Excellence Framework (REF; previously Research Assessment Exercise 1 OED, 'podcast', http://dictionary.oed.com/ [Last accessed: 16 April 2010]. The quotation is to the noun. The verb 'to podcast' is described as 'to make (a digital recording of a broadcast) available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or personal audio player'.
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 2010
British historians have begun to conceive that there were transformations in the cultural landsca... more British historians have begun to conceive that there were transformations in the cultural landscape of the past during the Protestant Reformation that were more profound in their social and cultural location than those of the Renaissance humanists. 1 This review article explores the impact of those transformations in their English Reformation context. That is not because there was anything necessarily unique to the English experience. Indeed, the opposite was rather the case. Although the two individuals on which we are concentrating, John Bale and John Foxe, have been the object of intense historical and literary scrutiny by Anglo-Saxon scholars over the past two decades, one emerging consequence of it has been to emphasize the degree to which they saw themselves as part of a broader European movement in which a historicized reformation was not simply a polemical adjunct to the theological and doctrinal changes of sola scriptura and sola fide but an emerging, distinctive contribution to the much larger cultural gene pool of "historical consciousness" in the sixteenth century. 2 Humanists had mostly directed their critique rather narrowly towards the academic life and scholastic patterns of thought of their predecessors. The Protestant reformation, by contrast, proclaimed itself a much larger "foundational event" (in the terms proposed by the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur), one that 1. These began with a brilliant Creighton Lecture in London by Keith Thomas in 1982, published as Keith Thomas, The Perception of the Past in Early Modern England, London 1983. He based his work particularly upon the emerging studies about seventeenth century antiquarianism, e. g.
An essay forming part of the John Foxe Project critical apparatus (johnfoxe.org). This essay exam... more An essay forming part of the John Foxe Project critical apparatus (johnfoxe.org). This essay examines the role of Anglo-Norman and Plantagenet kingship in Foxe's Acts and Monuments.
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, 2010