Henry V. 1086-1125. German king 1106-, Holy Roman Emperor 1111-. Imprisoned pope 1111, ending investiture controversy. Concordat of Worms.

Heracles. Son of Zeus, noted for his twelve labours. =Hercules.

Hermes Trismegistus. Egyptian founder of alchemy. Passed secret only to the sons of Pharaoahs.

Hobson, John. 1858-1940. British pre-Keynesian economist. Imperialism 1902.

Hobson, Tobias. Cambridge innkeeper who offered no choice of hired horse. -“Hobson’s choice”.

Hope Hawkins, Anthony. 1863-1933. English author. Prisoner of Zenda 1894.

Horae. Greek goddesses of seasons.

Howard, John. 1726-90. English prison reformer.

Hudson, Henry. -1611. English navigator to Hudson’s Bay.

Hudson River. 1825-75. US Romantic landscape painting school.

Hudson’s Bay Company. 1670-. England. Explored Canada. Sought NW passage. Trading posts. Fur trade. Monopoly 1821-58. Seven Oaks Massacre.

Hugh Capet. c941-996. First of the Capetian dynasty of French kings 987-. Son of Hugh the Great.

Human Rights. Agreed natural rights for all mankind. Stoics. Declaration of the Rights of Man 1789. Bill of Rights 1791. Buisson. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. Amnesty International.

Humanism. 14C-. Philosophy. Mankind at the center of consciousness. Mankind can live ethically without recourse to the supernatural. Belief in personal worth of individual. Rational, creative. Petrarch.

Hume, David. 1711-76. Scottish empiricist philosopher and historian: On Human Nature 1739. Free-will. Behaviour results from innate character. God cannot be proved by reason, but we must believe in Him.

Hutchinson, Anne. 1591-1643. Expelled from Massachussets. by Puritans, founded Rhode Is. 1637.

Icarus. Son of Daedalus, wings melted when he flew too close to the sun.

Idomeneus. Greek Cretan king. Sacrificed son to Poseidon.

Inductive Reasoning. Baconian. Truth is induced from a mass of observed facts.

Infanta/te. Daughter/son of king of Spain or Portugal.

Internationale. Revolutionary song based on a poem by Pottier, 1871. Music by Degeyter.

Iris. Greek personification of the rainbow.

Irrationalism. 19C. Philosophy stressing instinct over reason. Schopenhauer.

Isaac. Old Testament Patriarch. Abraham’s son from whom all Jews descend. Spared from sacrifice.

Isabella. 1292-1358. Ousted husband Edward II in favour of son, Edward III, 1327.

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