Sentence examples for modern historical from inspiring English sources

Subsequently, Pope Leo XIII (1878 1903) condemned Americanism (a movement among American Catholics that sought to adapt the church to modern civilization), and Pope Pius X (1903 14) condemned modernism (a movement that employed modern historical and critical methods to interpret scripture and Catholic teaching and that also challenged papal centralization).

In Piscator's production of Sturm über Gottland ("Storm over Gothland"; 1927), which is set in the 14th century, a filmed prologue showed the major actors moving toward the camera, metamorphosing in the process from historically costumed characters to representations of modern historical figures; the protagonist, for example, turned into Lenin.

Yet modern historical scholarship says nothing of the kind.

Realism, it was assumed, could not accommodate modern historical reality.

Modern historical novels began to appear in Mongolia and Buryatiya in the 1950s.

"These notes reveal a largely unvarnished history of personal reading within the early modern historical moment.

For one thing, it revised thousands of the dictionary's entries in light of modern historical sensibilities.

I ended with scorn for credulous modern historical authors and their slapdash research.

And Karl Löwith became a distinguished scholar of modern historical consciousness.

Yet vast floods have also been documented, both through tree-ring data and more modern historical records.

His works were objective and among the first of modern historical works to include a critical discussion of the principal sources for each period.