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Abélard, Pierre. 1079-c1144. French Conceptualist theologian of Notre-Dame. Advocated discussion vs dogma. Famed love of Héloïse. Accused of heresy 1121. Letters to Heloise 1103. Sic et Non 1132. Theologia.
Abydos, Table. 14C BC List of Egyptian. kings. Discovered Temple of Seti,1817.
Aesop. Legendary/6C BC. Greek slave/fablist. Fox and Grapes. Hare andTortoise.
Aho, Juhani. 1861-1921. Finnish novelist.
Alarcón, Pedro de. 1833-91. Spanish novelist: El sombrero de tres picos, 1874.
Alcott, Louisa May. 1832-88. US novelist: Little Women 1869.
Alien and Sedition Acts. 1798-1800/02. US fear French Revolution. Forbade criticism of government. Abused by Federalists vs Republicans.
Amis, Kingsley. 1922-95. English novelist and poet. Angry Young Men. Lucky Jim 1954.
Anabaptists. 1520- Christian sect. Adult baptism. No clergy. Salvation via faith. Millenialist. Hutterites, Mennonites, Quakers. Peasants War.
Anti-Socialist Law. 1878-90. Germans ban unions.
Ashkenazi. 1534-72. Cabalistic Jewish scholar. Established Safed center of learning, Palestine.
Austen, Jane. 1775-1817. English novelist: Sense and Sensibility, 1811, Pride and Prejudice, 1813. “the exquisite touch which renders the commonplace interesting”-W. Scott. Emma 1816.
Ba’ath. 1943-. Pan-Arab Socialist unity party.
Babeuf, François. 1760-97. French Socialist egalitarian revolutionary. “Conspiracy of Equals” vs Directory.
Baer, Karl. 1792-1876. Estonian/German naturalist: founded science of embryology. Discovered ovum 1827.
Balzac, Honoré de. 1799-1850. French novelist of social injustice: Comedie Humaine 1829-48.
Banville, Théodore de. 1823-91. French Parnassian poet. Early Symbolist. Odes funambulesques 1857.
Baptists. 1608-. Congregationalist Christian church. Baptism for believers only, (not infants).
Baroja y Nessi, Pio. 1872-1956. Basque novelist. Terse style influenced Hemingway. Somber Lives 1900. Generation of ’98.
Bartók, Bela. 1881-1945. Modern Hungarian Nationalist composer. Bridged Hungarian folk to Western music.
Bartolomeo, Fra. 1472-1517. Florentine master painter. High Renaissance Classical idealist. Lucca. Annunciation 1497.
Bates, W. 1825-92. English naturalist. Supported Darwin with mimicry evidence.
Baudelaire, Charles. 1821-67. French modernist poet: Fleurs du Mal 1857. Influenced Symbolists.
Beauvoir, Simone de. 1908-86. French Existentialist writer. The Second Sex 1949.
Beckett, Samuel. 1906-89. English/Irish novelist, dramatist expressing man’s suffering: Waiting for Godot 1952. Endgame.